One edit navagation bar that will go to all webpages

Kletha · 12-04-2006, 11:58 AM

I would like some help on how to create a navigation bar/menu/list that I only have to change once and it will make the change across all my website pages.

I'm sure there is a simple fix

but being a newbie to design I could use some help.

Taltos · 12-04-2006, 12:36 PM

Hi Kletha and welcome.

Any chance you are using Dreamweaver? If so, then get your design close to final or final and use Dreamweaver's help to make it a Template. Then you can just edit the template and all pages in that site based on that template will be updated.

Good Luck.

Kletha · 12-04-2006, 12:41 PM

No, not using dreamweaver. I do use AceHTML WYSIWYG program. I've never really liked using template programs.

I was hoping there was a css or java code that I might be able to use.

Taltos · 12-04-2006, 04:00 PM

Not that I know of.

However, Dreamweaver isn't a template program. It is probably the closest thing to an industry standard web development package that there is. Some might disagree with that but most won't. It is what a huge majority of people here use to hand code HTML pages. Once you have the page the way you like it, you can tell Dreamweaver that it is a template and base new pages on that page.

It does have some WYSIWYG features but I have never used them. Good Luck on the hunt!

waffles · 12-05-2006, 06:36 AM

PHP would be an easy way to go. All you would need to do is create the menu as you would like it in a seperate file and then include it with the PHP with the following code

Code:

<?php include 'file.txt'; ?>

You can use whatever sort of extension you want since all it does is pull the content from that file and puts it in the page that is including it, replacing the PHP code.

The server reads is and if anyone checks your source it shows the menu code, not the PHP include code. Just in case that matters to you at all.

While Taltos' idea of making a template works for a while, it falls apart if you want to change the navigation. You still would have to go back and change everything so that it matches. With the PHP include way of doing it, one edit effects your whole site.