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HazySmoke)345

Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:15 pm


Menu bars

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You see this on many websites.

Take, for example, www.neopets.com. They have a side bar with all these buttons such as "explore", "games", etc, and you'll see this side bar on every single page that's within the domain of www.neopets.com.

If I want to make an extensive website, and if I want to have the same menu bar attached to every single webpage I make, how can I go about doing that?

It wouldn't be a good idea to use frames because this feature is not available on some browsers.
It wouldn't be a good idea to copy & paste because, if I want to change the menu bar, I'll have to make the same changes on every single page, which is tedious.

Is there a good way to achieve this?

(Just a side note: On the 2nd line of this post, why is the period after "www.neopets.com" part of the hyperlink? A bug, maybe?)


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Amailer

Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:20 pm


RE:Menu bars

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Check out this artical:
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/include.html

See if that helps you


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rdrake

Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:24 pm


Re: Menu bars

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You see this on many websites.

Take, for example, www.neopets.com. They have a side bar with all these buttons such as "explore", "games", etc, and you'll see this side bar on every single page that's within the domain of www.neopets.com.

If I want to make an extensive website, and if I want to have the same menu bar attached to every single webpage I make, how can I go about doing that?

It wouldn't be a good idea to use frames because this feature is not available on some browsers.
It wouldn't be a good idea to copy & paste because, if I want to change the menu bar, I'll have to make the same changes on every single page, which is tedious.

Is there a good way to achieve this?As you love along, many backend languages (ie. PHP and the like) will let you use includes.  I always just put the sidebar and other components into external files then included them into my pages.

(Just a side note: On the 2nd line of this post, why is the period after "www.neopets.com" part of the hyperlink? A bug, maybe?)It could be due to the fact that you didn't use proper [url= ][ /url] tags... just a guess.


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HazySmoke)345

Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:21 am


Re: Menu bars

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Thanks, Amailer, I will try that when the SSI code when I have a chance. If it doesn't work, I'll create another thread :D

No, rdrake, I didn't really use the url tags. The website was hyperlinked by default. Thanks for the suggestion, by the way :D