changing more than one webpage

hiya

This is probably yet another daft question from me .. butttt ...

I have created an online adult store .. its very basic as i dont know anything about html, code or anything .. i just used dreamweaver to do it.

I originally used frames .. but was then told that search engines have problems with them, so i redid it all without frames. There is 83 pages at the moment, so what i did was i created a page with the majority of the content on, which i called blank.htm and then pasted the products and 'saved as' for each page.

A lot of the pages are too long, so i am gonna have to split them into name/page1,2,3 etc so that is going to make the page list go to around 130 minimum. plus i have more things to add to each page too.

A friend said it is possible to make a blank/basic page and get everything to update at once. Does anyone know what she would be on about, or do i really have to go through all of those pages copying and pasting again ?

Any help would be gratefully recieved
Erica xx

 

You may use server side includes (ssi) to have the server "paste" snippets into your page. Thus, the nav menu, for instance, could be in a separate file as a snippet of marked up content, and the server would include it it each page that called it, as served. Changing the one file would propogate the changes throughout the site. As far as I know, all major web servers follow the same syntax, even IIS.

Alternatively, all server side scripting languages have an include function to do the same.

cheers,

gary

 

OH NO ! .. Did you hear that HUGE Kabooom noise ?

That was my head exploding lolol

Thank you very much for replying kk5st .. I read the link you sent, and i'm afraid it goes way over my head lol .. i'll just stick to copying and pasting lolol

Erica xxx

 

well i thick this can be done by using the include tag in asp ... but dont know abt html... ;(

 

you can do this by server side for sure.. just play around with it to see if that fits your time load.. best luck

 

thank you pratik and 907group .. when my little boy goes back to school on monday i am just gonna focus on copying and pasting it all over .. that server side thingie almost blew me away lol
Erica xx

 

Hi Erica!

If you're using PHP/ASP or even HTML you can use includes to form a "template"

Here's an example in action: www.thelouisvilleseo.com

My site uses the same head/foot/right content on everypage... it helps a lot.

If you need assistance with this I'm in Louisville, KY and would be glad to help.

Have a good day Erica! Good luck.

 

awww i had done some googling and found out what i could do, i started on it and then i came on here all chuffed with myself to tell you's that i had sussed it and you beat me to it lololololol
Thank you thelouisvilleseo .. this is going to be brilliant for me i think .. i have already done one section .. i havnt changed any of the main parts yet to see if it changes on all of them, but from what i have read it should
gawd knows why i didnt think of this first time round mind lolololol
Erica xx

 

I also use the php include() for my menu on a site that I am building. Very handy and easy to incorporate into your site. I am sure once you see an example in action you could do it, if you haven’t already.

Good luck with the site.

 

It can be done in html by editing the .httacess file to read htm files as php or by using server side includes. Either way there will still a lot of editting to get it all set up. But it will make future additions and changes quick and easy...

 

try this:

<!--#include virtual="yourpage.html" -->

HTML:

with "yourpage.html" as the page where the content is.
Has always worked for me, hope that's what you're looking for.

 

Hello, RPSPP.
What your friend was probably talking about is the template mechanism
that is part of Dreamweaver. It is a good idea if you are starting
from zero. However, now you have written eighty odd pages (for the
second time). In that case, I would rather stick to the method you
already used: cut and paste. Begin by creating a template. Then load
the old page, cut the second half, create a "new from template" page,
and paste what you cut.

 

thank you for replying Tekntoant .. to be honest i know nothing about php etc, i just use a wysiwyg program. Once its all up and running properly, and i can see how it goes i am gonna look at learning dynamic is it ? where you have a database and can do queries etc ? .. I dont know if thats anything to do with php ? lol

Thank you livingearth. The templates are working for me at the minute

Thank you dabontv .. again that is straight over my head as i just use the wysiwyg part of dreamweaver lol .. the only time i have actually used anything of the html part is when directories ask me to give a link back and i copy theirs in, and when a friend sent me the script for the matching scrollbars and she give me step by step instructions of where to add it lololol

Thank you TechnoGeek .. what i did was i opened the blank i had made and saved it as a template. Then altered it to include the new bits and made some editable etc. Then did exactly as you described. I went to new from template, opened the old page, cut half of the table of stock and pasted it into the new from template one. etc etc. It is going to save me soooooo much time in the long run lol.
oh .. and i tried the altering part which i mentioned in an earlier post and it worked \o/ wooo hooo lol

Anyway .. thank you all for your input .. you're a great bunch in here
Erica xx

 

hey there,

well i am going to a website using html.. and it will contain around 20-30 page.. and i have made the top menu in dreamweaver using css..

so i there a way bywhich i can get it on all pages... like we use the include tag is asp... and tht if i change in the main file and page gets updated automatically...

thnkz