----- Original Message ----- From: freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 00:00 Subject: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 183 When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. ***FREEPAGES HELP & FAQ*** <http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/fpindex.html> Today's Topics: 1. Headers and Footers -- SSI (Ralph Taylor) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 14:37:00 -0700 From: "Ralph Taylor" <rt-sails@comcast.net> Subject: [FreeHelp] Headers and Footers -- SSI To: <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <DFF124D15365486F9D854A56A79A71FB@Ralphs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Johnny wrote: "There is a way to add Headers and / or Footers: Do your whole set of biographies with a word processor (MS-Word or WordPerfect are good for this), save in PDF format, then upload the PDF files to the web page..." Compared to other means, this seems like poor practice to me; not recommended. Image files (which PDF are) take more bandwidth than the equivalent in HTML-formatted text. I don't know about band width, but 13 meg of web pages, when made into PDF files, comes to 20 meg in PDF format. It doesn't deal with Caroline's problem of including a footer (or header) in every page without making changes to the pages; you'd have to do something to get the PDF onto each page. As for getting the Header / Footer on each page, the better word processors do that automatically, and can make automatic changes, such as numbering the pages. Example, if the Header is something Like this, starting with page 10, then have pages numbered each time there is a new page, such as: Carolyn's Bio, Page 10 Carolyn's Bio, Page 11 Carolyn's Bio, Page 12 etc, MS-Word and WordPerfect word processors easily do that, and can then save the file in PDF format. PDF is an image file AND a text file combined. You can actually do a search for certain text within a PDF file, and it will find that text. But thanks for the info on your "include" tags. That looks handy. Johnny