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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	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: [b]HTML editors[/b] Some HTML editors will let you use find and replace across the entire site. [b]Includes[/b] 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: [url=http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/javascript/javascriptssi.html]JavaScript Includes - Gurus Network tutorial[/url] [url=http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/ssi/ssi1_intro.html]Intro to Server Side Includes - Gurus Network tutorial[/url] [url=http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/php/phptemplate/phptemplate.html]Template Design with PHP - Gurus Network tutorial[/url] [url=http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/php/phptemplate2/phptemplate2.html]Template Design with PHP part II - Gurus Network tutorial[/url] [b]3rd Party Software - Weblog[/b] [url=http://noahgrey.com/greysoft]Greymatter[/url] - [i]Greymatter is no longer in developement but is still available[/i] [url=http://www.movabletype.org]Movable Type[/url] --------------------- Relevant threads: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001370.html]A Template, a template! My Kingdom for a template![/url] [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001394.html]PHP Templates and Javascript[/url] --------------------- Relevant FAQs: [internallink=4592]What software do I need to create a web page?[/internallink] ________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Sat 18-May-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Sat 18-May-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=CPrompt]CPrompt [/url] on Tue 21-May-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Sat 10-May-2003)[/i][/small] Loading...
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