Hello. This is my first post here, and I hope someone will be able to help me.

I'm working on a website for a client.
They have a list of links on the side of their website and they want to be able to update one page (or external file) and all the links on all the pages are therefore updated - without having to edit each and every page.

I know there is a way to do this with PHP, but that is not what I need.

HTML, JAVA and CSS only.


If anyone knows a solution, it would be much appreciated.

HTML, JAVA and CSS only.

In that case. There isn't one.

Ok, thanks.

Any idea if there is a solution with ASP?

http://www.candsdesign.co.uk/article.../asp-includes/

If I understand you right, what you can do is load the code for the page, remove the content that would be different on each page and save it as a template leaving everything that would be the same.

That just about sums it up, yes.

if your doing java, You could possibly put the links in a .js file on the server and have all pages load that .js file.

Ie:
<script src="links.js">

Then in scripts.js

You could have.

//JSdoc.

document.write('<a href="http://google.com">Google</a><br>');
document.write('<a href="http://google.com">Google</a><br>');
document.write('<a href="http://google.com">Google</a><br>');
document.write('<a href="http://google.com">Google</a><br>');
document.write('<a href="http://google.com">Google</a><br>');
document.write('<a href="http://google.com">Google</a><br>');
document.write('<a href="http://google.com">Google</a><br>');

I use Smarty PHP, so it's easy to pull in a particular tpl onto a number of pages, allowing for quick global changes. However, if you use Dreamweaver, you can create templates for HTML that allow similar global changes.

So, for all pages that need that information, create the template with your left column as uneditable and all other sections as editable.

Change content on all pages to your heart's content in all the editable sections. When you need to update the links, you go back to the (single) template and update the links.

But you must apply the changes to all your HTML pages using that template and re-upload them to your site before they are updated.

Is that what you were looking for? I think this is what mcorton was referring to.

Originally Posted by lynxus

if your doing java, You could possibly put the links in a .js file on the server and have all pages load that .js file.

Ie:
<script src="links.js">

Then in scripts.js

You could have.
....

Yep you could do that

HOWEVER bear in mind that your navigation would be invisible to user agents and devices that were javascript disabled. Search engines being the on of the non-js UAs

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Yep you could do that

HOWEVER bear in mind that your navigation would be invisible to user agents and devices that were javascript disabled. Search engines being the on of the non-js UAs

Fair point.

Probably not worth doing then.