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"..the best bet is to use server-side includes (SSI). Most commonly used in PHP and ASP..."
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After researching this issue for a couple months, I had a nasty feeling that was the road I was heading down |
Don't think of it as a nasty feeling. Think of it as the butterflies of anticipation at the opportunity to learn something new:)
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"...you can use SSI on standard HTML sites if your hosting server permits."
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Ok, but this means I need to learn PHP or ASP? What about DHTML (appears to be a combo of HTML and JavaScript)? |
Forget about HTML and JavaScript. What you're doing is properly a server side function and should be handled on the server, not the client.
If your server supports SSI, you don't actually need to learn ASP or PHP. For what you're talking about here though, the ASP or PHP you need to learn is so simple I wouldn't worry about it much.
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we have an ASP account. Also leaving on vacation for two weeks Friday . . . should I start reading ASP for Dummies on the beach!?)
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It's not a terrible idea if you're into that kind of thing. Personally, my vactions are vacations. No non-recreational reading. I enjoy my job, but I don't take it on vacation with me.
Learning a server side scripting language (or two) well is a good idea, but all you really need to know right now is how to do an include. In ASP, assuming normal configuration, all you have to do is rename the file with an ".asp" extension and include a line like the following where you want your included content to go:
and that file can simply be the html you want to include.
A little more info at
W3Schools
Some more talking about it at
hitmill