I recently put my family website up on Ancestry's freewebs, its just a basic page generated by RootsMagic. I would like to change this to have a nicer main page and other area's for content, linking to my surname pages etc. Easy enough for me to do. But I would like to set up includes so my header and left side menu are the same on all pages. I have a WAMP local host set up, as I'm used to using wordpress and joomla. Mostly tweaking css to suit what I need. I don't have much experience working with non cms websites. Anyway I've been sitting here all evening trying to get the includes to work. I can't even get them to show up. LOL I've been over every tut on the genealogy websites I can find, I've checked out a few others for general websites. I think I need includes for dummies. LOL :-P I did find a good video tutorial but it was for PHP includes and I don't think that will work on the freewebs?? Basically what I have done is on my local host I have my site folder. Inside that I have my index.htm and style sheet. I have a folder named _includes Inside that I made a txt file with a basic menu links, no styling yet. I've only put one link in, I wanted to see how they look before adding everything. <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link two</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link three</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link four</a></li> </ul> Then I go to my web editor I'm using KompoZer right now. I enter the code <!--#include virtual="_includes/left-menu.txt" --> and nothing shows up, either in the web editor or on my local host view. I've tried different paths to the left-menu.txt file so far no luck with any of them... Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Kim ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3439 - Release Date: 02/12/11