SSI - help needed

Thanks for the reply guys!

Here's my question:

SERVER SIDE INCLUDES

I want to make a site that has loads of pages.
The borders, menu and logo of this site are all images and all appear on every page on my site.

Right now, if I don’t use SSI and if I want to make changes to any re-appearing images on my site then I’d have to edit those changes individually - on every single page.

However, if I do use SSI, then I can edit those images once and my changes will be applied to every page.

I’m not too sure how I can go about doing this. Does anyone know how I can get started?

Here's my host:
http://odin.prohosting.com/

Thanks for reading,
Jenny

Hi again,

Basically what I want to do is use SSI code to call headers, footers and images on other pages on my website.

>> Does anyone know how I can get started?

Yes. Start here -> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html

Thank you!

Why not use CSS? What is your typical audience? Are they likely to have a client capable of rendering CSS in some form?

Using SSI would mean the server processing every single page as it is GET'ed - if you have lots of pages CSS may be better?

IMHO of course

Hi everyone!



My audience is just the general public. Anyone form anywhere!



My website has loads of pages. How is CSS better? What exactly is it?

What does IMHO mean?

Thanks,
Jenny

Hi,

IMHO = In my humble opinion ;p

CSS is cascading style sheets. There are loads of good books about it but check out w3schools.com for a reasonable introduction.

Basically with CSS you can define a style (say a font size or colour or position of something) for "things" on the page and reference the style contained within the style sheet. It means you can include a style sheet into all pages with the knowledge that this file will define various parameters about how the browser should render various things.

It will all become clear if you read up a little on it. If you are getting hits from anyone and everyone probably most people will use MSIE or NN so CSS should be no problem.

The big issue with SSI for page building like this is the overhead on the server, PHP may be a better bet if you really feel the need to cut the page on the server.

Hope this helps.