Begiiner question..Need Help

Hi All, as will become apparent, I am a beginner to scripting and would appreciate any help I can get.

I have just started a network and need a system where our members can place a menu bar at the top of their pages (see URL for an example)

Now this bar updates with new members constantly and I do not wish to have to chase up members continually to update the code.

How can I make it that they can reference the file (similar to SSI) from their own sites and have it renderd on the top of their pages each time.

im happy to use any web tech nology (perl, java, etc) to do this but do not wish to see frames (like who does??)

Thanks

What is it exactly your trying to make? A general naviagtion bar to peoples own web pages? Or a list of users currently logged on to your site? The example site you gave looks like it a navigation drop down list. I only ask as the implementations for a navigation bar and a online user list would be different.

as I undertsood all you want is to include some file to each page, correct? well you could do this with php's include("file.html") or ssi's <!--#include virtual="file.html"--> or html's <iframe src=page.html> either one will do.