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As your site grows you will find maintenance becoming more and more of a problem (esp. if you want to change one of the commonly occuring elements like a link in your main naviagtion bar). Fortunately there are a few ways:

HTML editors

Some HTML editors will let you use find and replace across the entire site.

Includes

With includes you can have one file that contains all the code to build part of your page and then you include that in all of the pages where that part occurs. There are numerous solutions - both client-side and server-side and there are numerous resources which cover this topic:

JavaScript Includes - Gurus Network tutorial

Intro to Server Side Includes - Gurus Network tutorial

Template Design with PHP - Gurus Network tutorial

Template Design with PHP part II - Gurus Network tutorial

3rd Party Software - Weblog

Greymatter - Greymatter is no longer in developement but is still available

Movable Type

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Relevant threads:

A Template, a template! My Kingdom for a template!

PHP Templates and Javascript

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Relevant FAQs:

What software do I need to create a web page?

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