frames -but no frames

[roycet]

I maintain a website -like many websites- it has a title at the top, a menu to the left and a main display area taking up the rest of the space. I have stayed away from using frames for this because I dislike them. However, my boss has started changing what he wants in the left handed window quite frequently. Currently, I have that menu hardcoded in each and every page of the site. Is there any way that I can just edit the menu once and then have it apply to all the pages - without using frames, (also, I would prefer not to use layers either.) Thanks for any help you can give. I'm getting real tired of copying and pasting to every page!

Thanks,
Tom

 

[GIGN]

If it't the same menu every time, then frames are probably the best way to go - they would speed up loading as well as making your editing much easier!

It depends what you are editing too though - see you can change one image in your menu and that will propagate thru for you, no problem, so long as everything is named consistently.
The only other thing is with changing any code it may use - here you could store all that code in a .js file - and have every page read from that.

This way you change the code once for the whole site. This could be done with any menu specific styles too.
b² - benbiddington@surf4nix.com

 

[AndrewGrabovsky]

Hi roycet!
Better solution of your case, in my opinion, is to use SSI. I don't know whether your server supports it, but most of them do.

Andrew | starway@mail.com