Judy, No, no CSS just straight html using SSI. You don't see the include command because the server inserts the header/footer when your browser calls up the page. But every page is formatted similar to this: <html> <head> </head> <body> <!--#include virtual="/header.htm"--> body of webpage <!--#include virtual="/footer.htm"--> </body> </html> Whatever you put into the header and footer page will be inserted into the page. Don't use the FP "include" use the "virtual" include. The FP "include" will require you to upload every page every time you make a change in the header/footer file (been there, done that). The only "tricky" part is setting the path to the header/footer so pages in sub folders can find them also. Also some servers require pages to be named with the shtml extension (my RW county site doesn't but my church's site on GoDaddy does). The virtual include has been a lifesaver for me. When it's time to update the copyright notice on all 3000 pages, I edit ONE page, upload it and I'm done! Feel free to use the design. ----------------------------------------------------- Ron
Assuming that you mean to change the date in the copyright notice, SSI can relieve you of even that yearly task. Copied from my page footer: <!--#config timefmt="%Y" --> <!--#echo encoding="none" var="date_local" --> This inserts the current year. The encoding was required by a clumsily coded recent server upgrade, but I think that Randy may have restored the old default, making that parameter unnecessary. You should try it first without the encoding="none". -R. Ron wrote in part: > 8>< > > The virtual include has been a lifesaver for me. When it's time to update > the copyright notice on all 3000 pages, I edit ONE page, upload it and I'm > done! > > 8>< > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ 481 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 117,600+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: [email protected] If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. -Mark Twain