minton — Thu, 18 May 2000 18:56:00 +0000

Ok, well, i didnt use any of your advice though i did learn alot, so thanks for that!!

The way i opted for, the most dumb but the way thast i decided to do was to use ultraedit and search each each pageto find and replace. I realised i only needed it to replace the sponsers and partners on each page so it workls fine, onkly about 20 pages to upload. Once (if)i move my site i will use ssi though, and a script if i can find one that i can write in a text boc like this and it will be uploadd to the page, i think if i learn perl i will write a bulletin board which only ican post to and noone can reply. It wont even look like a bulletin board.

But thanks anyway

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Lloyd Hassell — Thu, 18 May 2000 06:51:00 +0000

Another solution would be to use ASP or PERL to generate your pages offline, then upload them manually. You could create a simple script which you execute to update each page of your site. You could also create new files.

Vincent Puglia — Wed, 17 May 2000 19:35:00 +0000

Hi Tom,

Take a look at the code at my site, most if not all use some form *.js file.

(That, and you could post it at The Javascript Place forum -- I'm pretty sure the new moderator [clap, clap] would be willing to give you some free help

Vinny

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nemes — Wed, 17 May 2000 11:51:00 +0000

How about using a html editor such as Dreamweaver which allows for 'Templates' to be created which will update your whole site. It is expensive though.....

Thanks

Nemes

John Pollock — Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:13:00 +0000

Andy has the only solution left for you without cgi/ssi/etc. if you want to edit only one file.

If you don't have a ton of pages, you could also get an html editor with a global search & replace utility. That would make the same changes on every page. The downside is uploading all the pages each time though.

AndyB — Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:07:00 +0000

Create a javascript file that uses document.write to write out the complete code for your navbar.

Save it as 'navbar.js'

In each html file, add

script language="javascript" src="navbar.js
/script

Then each succesive html page will get the navbar.js source code from their cache, and you only need to edit the single navbar.js file to change all the navbars

minton — Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:51:00 +0000

yeah, but the domain i got was free a free .co.uk and free hosting and I WOULD like to chnage hosts but it costs (wait for it.....) £90 to get away from them!!!!! I didn't read the fine print till after I had signed up and still then I didnt care because I was not exeperienced with cgi and had no need for it. Now i do but cant use it through my site.

I have already signed up with free.prohosting.com.

Back to the subject. Is there a way to update the navbar by only changing one file??? I really need this!!

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RJ D'Angelo — Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:24:00 +0000

I think you should wsitch hosts then. Even Angelfire supports cgi!

Get signed up with Virtual Ave, they support it.

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minton — Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:22:00 +0000

i am definitely not going to use frames. I do not like them at all. Thanks for the info on css though.

BTW, SSI is where you can call in a webpage (or cgiscript etc) from another page so they will be displayed together.

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phyllis — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:25:00 +0000

Can you just work in frames and have one frame as your navbar? That sounds like the obvious solution to have only one navbar file to edit (I don't know what SSI is).
Here's some information on linking style sheets

Phyllis

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