making site easier to maintain

**kdog316** · Apr 11th, 2003, 01:42 PM

ok i am maintaining this site http://www.photographiclee.com and i want to put up text links that the buttons go to above the body but below the banner and header now i would like to use php and make a file that has the info in it so all i have to do is type a vairble and it pops up sort of like what vbulletin uses and also where the address is on every page how do i make it so i can use php also to make one file that has the address in it then i just stick in some code and when i change the one address it chages all the pages. thanks

ps basically who ever helps me the best which i know of of you will. they will get the money.

**Web Design Forums** · Apr 11th, 2003 01:42 PM

**smoseley** · Apr 11th, 2003, 02:02 PM

Use server-side includes. You basically set up normal HTML pages for every piece of content that will be repeated within your site. Then, you reference them from your content as necessary. You can use them in PHP, ASP, JSP, or SHTML. Here's a typical layout:

page.shtml

Code:

<!--#Include File="header.htm"-->
    <h1>My Page</p>
    <p>Here's the content of my page</p>
<!--#Include File="footer.htm"-->

header.htm

Code:

<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body>
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
      <h1>Here's Where My Banner Would Go !!</h1>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="120" bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
        <a href="home.shtml">Home</a><br>
        <a href="page.shtml">Page</a><br>
        <a href="page2.shtml">Page2</a><br>
        <a href="page3.shtml">Page3</a><br>
        <img src="images/spacer.gif" width="120" height="1" border="0"><br>
    </td>
    <td width="100%">

footer.htm

Code:

    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

^^ I enhanced it a little for you... try it out and see if it works for ya!

**smoseley** · Apr 11th, 2003, 02:08 PM

By the way... you should save your images in JPG format instead of GIF format.... you use a lot of gradients, which look absolutely awful as GIFs. To make it worse, you've dithered your GIFs and decreased their color array, which makes them look even more pixelated.

**filburt1** · Apr 11th, 2003, 02:33 PM

Originally posted by transio
By the way... you should save your images in JPG format instead of GIF format.... you use a lot of gradients, which look absolutely awful as GIFs. To make it worse, you've dithered your GIFs and decreased their color array, which makes them look even more pixelated.

If you're talking about the buttons, I disagree; they look horrible now, yes, but if you use Photoshop to save them with a 255 optimized color palette they should look perfectly fine.

**smoseley** · Apr 11th, 2003, 10:08 PM

Actually, you can get 256 colors in a gif ;-)

And I would generally agree with you on this point, as I stated in this topic: http://www.webdesignforums.net/threa...html#post71613

However, the buttons that he's using each contain a white - black gradient in addition to a white - <color> gradient, where <color> could be red, orange, yellow, blue, green, or purple. Even with 256 colors (and dithering off) those buttons would look a little "mosaic". Additionally, JPGs would compress smaller in the case of hte buttons.

Also, the banner contains gradients of multiple colors (orange, magenta, blues, greens, and more) all together. No way will even 256 colors look good on that banner. A JPG would look 100x better, and would compress smaller.

**smoseley** · Apr 12th, 2003, 10:24 AM

So do I get the money or what? :-P

**kdog316** · Apr 12th, 2003, 10:44 AM

sure thank you

**filburt1** · Apr 12th, 2003, 10:57 AM

Click the Award Dollars button, then.

**kdog316** · Apr 12th, 2003, 11:20 AM

umm filbert i accidently gave you the 2 dollers could you give it to transio thanks

**smoseley** · Apr 13th, 2003, 10:31 PM

not fair.

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