If you are a webmaster or a website owner and have not yet used server side includes (SSI), I am about to make your life soooo much easier. SSI can save you a lot of time updating your site. Set them up right at the beginning and you will be forever grateful that somebody thought up SSI.
Yahoo Toolbar Includes Ads And Other Portal Features
Like most reputable search engines, Yahoo offers a toolbar that gives users the ability to search the web without their browsers pointing to Yahoo Search. However, Yahoo.com is not merely a search engine, it is also a portal. Because of that, Yahoo is offering portal-like features on the latest version of the their toolbar.
Intro to SSI (Server Side Includes)
We are often asked by webmasters how to repeat web elements across their pages without have to edit each static page individually each time they need to make a change. External CSS is the answer to your web pages’ cosmetic elements (fonts, colors, borders, padding, etc.), but SSI is a great tool when you want to use the same web element (navigational menu, page text, etc.) across multiple pages, but you do not want to change it on every page each time you need to add, delete or modify.
How to Update Your Web Site Using Server Side Includes (SSI)
Recently a person asked me if I could replace 125 web pages of her web site with a new drop-down navigation system. If she had to do this manually, she would have to change each page and upload it separately to the server. This would take hundreds of hours. So, what’s the answer – use Server Side Includes (SSI)
What is Server Side Includes (SSI)?
Simplifying web site design and maintenance with Server Side Includes
Consider a situation where you have started a site that has a few pages. As the site becomes popular, you keep adding more and more pages to the site. So far, so good. Then you realize that your site could do even better if you added another section to the site. Once the section has been completed, you now need to make it accessible from all the pages of your site. With a few hundred pages to your site, you can well imagine the task ahead of you.