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Comment: Server-side includes

Posted by brothercake on Thursday 10th March 2005 at 09:57 -0600

You need to use some kind of server-side includes .. SSI, or using PHP or another language.

Site management is not practical without something like that - this site only has about a dozen pages, but still uses includes for the navigation bar - it would be far too tedious to maintain otherwise.

Comment: Search and Replace

Posted by Steve P. Sharpe on Thursday 21st April 2005 at 12:01 -0500

Another option just to get your navigation changed for now, is to use something like Dreamweaver that has a search and replace facility for the whole local site. This way you can make sitewide changes.

After you have made your changes, use a server-side solution as mentioned above it is to the best way.

Hope this helps?

Steve

Comment: A good tip!

Posted by brothercake on Friday 22nd April 2005 at 21:57 -0500

Thanks Steve, that's a useful tip Here's a couple of other utilities for those who don't have DW or a similar tool:

The Mac text-editor BBEdit has a useful multi-line search and replace facility that can scan groups of files -- http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml

For Windows there's a freeware app called BK Replace EM that does the job nicely -- http://www.orbit.org/replace/