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ChefFrank · 03-07-2006, 06:43 AM

Hi all! New to the forum, but not new to programming.

OK - here's my challenge:

I have a website that I originally designed to be fast and safe. Not a lot of JAVASCRIPT, applets, etc. Also, I wanted it to be as vanilla as possible for the large number of browsers I expect will be viewing it (my latest statistics show that there are at least 10 different browser versions that accessed my site). So, I adopted a simple table layout, and built a framework that's used for each page - I just plop in the revelent text for each page and I'm good to go. So I thought.

After a few months of updates and refinements, I'm finding that maintenance is becoming a bear. If I want to update something in the 'fixed' portion of the page, I have to go back and change more and more pages to fix it. Now, I could easily convert my layout to a frame-based design, but I'm afraid that it will break with some browsers, and also mess up some of the webcrawlers (SEO is becoming important to me right now).

So, the question is, is there a way to 'include' HTML fragments into a larger HTML document so all I have to do is move the changed sections into place and when the page is referenced, the changes will be seen? If all else fails, I will convert to frames, but I'd rather not. Any suggestions?

If you want to see the site, it's cheffrankonline.com

Frank

03-07-2006, 06:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
ChefFrank Code Monkey Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Woodbury, CT Posts: 38	HTML 'include' abilities? Hi all! New to the forum, but not new to programming. OK - here's my challenge: I have a website that I originally designed to be fast and safe. Not a lot of JAVASCRIPT, applets, etc. Also, I wanted it to be as vanilla as possible for the large number of browsers I expect will be viewing it (my latest statistics show that there are at least 10 different browser versions that accessed my site). So, I adopted a simple table layout, and built a framework that's used for each page - I just plop in the revelent text for each page and I'm good to go. So I thought. After a few months of updates and refinements, I'm finding that maintenance is becoming a bear. If I want to update something in the 'fixed' portion of the page, I have to go back and change more and more pages to fix it. Now, I could easily convert my layout to a frame-based design, but I'm afraid that it will break with some browsers, and also mess up some of the webcrawlers (SEO is becoming important to me right now). So, the question is, is there a way to 'include' HTML fragments into a larger HTML document so all I have to do is move the changed sections into place and when the page is referenced, the changes will be seen? If all else fails, I will convert to frames, but I'd rather not. Any suggestions? If you want to see the site, it's cheffrankonline.com Frank