nuk3 — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:14:12 +0000

You'd have a better chance with including with javascript rather than css, as Megan said, it's crazy. If you have access to server side scripting I would very strongly suggest you make use of either an SSI or PHP include.

Megan — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:11:32 +0000

I would think that doing an include with CSS would be completely contrary to the purpoase of CSS. Since CSS was created to hold presentation, in order to separate style from structure, why in the world would you want to, or be able to, include structural or content information in a stylesheet? That would be really weird... Wouldn't be good for accessability either.

The Webmistress — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:02:01 +0000

Yeah, TDS2599, how do you use CSS to do this? I've never heard of using CSS for this type of thing, do you have an example?

Megan — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:11:59 +0000

There are also utilities out there that will mass rename files in a given directory or whatever you choose. I have something called "Oscar's renamer". Just in case you were worried about having to do that by hand. You can also use an extended search/replace tool (many html editors have these built in) to search/replace code in your site (i.e. search for the footer code, replace it with the include code)

How would one use CSS to include a footer? Just curious on that one...

fdwilk1 — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:06:04 +0000

To Phil/Flipper: If I use ColdFusion will that have any bearing on search engine spiders being able to crawl the site?

ROB — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:23:52 +0000

best method is SSI or a scripting language like PHP or ASP, but the javascript method works quite well and you dont have to modify your server configuration or rename all your files. i've used javascript to add stuff like copyright info at the bottom of pages and it works just fine. people with javascript disabled simply wont see the footer, and if they have javascript disabled theyre used to things not working right already.

you could also use an inline frame.

openmind — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:17:56 +0000

Or if you use coldfusion just rename the pages to .cfm and add the tag

TDS2599 — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:54:07 +0000

What about using CSS and create a footer that is included on every page?

fdwilk1 — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:25:11 +0000

Thanks especially to Megan. The bignosebird site is great!

Megan — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:08:55 +0000

BigNoseBird.com has a good SSI tutorial. Here's the direct URL:

http://www.bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml

The include code basically looks like this: