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Posted by jane doe on 05/27/07 00:39
"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-C3611D.09323727052007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
: In article <w606i.1726$dy1.301@bigfe9>,
: "jane doe" <anotherdamnmungjob@in.usa.com> wrote:
:
: > I update often, and having to do each page one by one is getting old
very
: > quick. I use css on my website, but I am not real good at it. I need a
way
: > to add or update links to my pages, but only have to edit one file,
instead
: > of 77. Is there a css way of doing this? Or is there another way?
: >
:
: Last things first. Go to
:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block#E-mail_and_Usenet
:
: and read under the heading "E-mail and Usenet".
:
: About updating. I notice you are getting replies that are surely
: blinding you with science at the moment. But it can be a
: complicated business. Let me suggest something simpler for a
: start.
:
: Get a good text editor that has a Search & Replace function that
: is sophisticated enough to at least change all occurences of a
: set of words in any number of files (not just one file). Once you
: have your hands on this facility (many are good and free), you
: will find life suddenly very much easier. If, for example, your
: links arte all in some menu block on 77 different pages and you
: want to change several of them, all you need do is copy and paste
: the existing block of text into both the "Search" text field of
: the editor and the replace one too and go on to make the changes
: you want in the latter field. You then must instruct the function
: to search a whole folder or directory (eg the whole website
: folder on your local machine) and to replace all occurences. This
: is often accomplished by help of ticking various boxes in the
: editor function that comes up.
:
: Naturally, you can adapt the above advice depending on your
: situation. It is a huge time saver.
:
: As for uploading the now successfully changed files, you still
: have to do that. But that is easy and quick, 77 is not that many
: and you can select the lot and ftp them all up in one go.
:
: If you want to avoid this last step and generally are determined
: not to actually change all your 77 html files then you need to do
: a fair bit of work to set things up. This involves learning about
: either server side includes or php includes. These techniques
: involve putting a simple line of code in place of the block of
: link text you normally have, a line of code which effectively
: says: "Server, go fetch the following text file from such and
: such a directory and stick it in here". You then make that text
: file and put it on the server in that directory. When you want to
: change that one text file, you can and it will then appear in all
: 77 files. But to do this, you need to look up server-side and php
: includes and study it. It is not dead simple (like the S & R that
: I recommended you at least try first) but not that hard either.
:
: --
: dorayme
Thank you so much. I am well on my way setting up a template. The total
pages I have to change is 258. I was going to do just my best hits pages,
then I decided, why do that When I can do them all this summer, and be done
with it. So I am going to fix up the template, with everything in its
place, and then use html-kit. I do not know if html-kit has the replace
feature. But because I am making so many changes, I wasn't even sure if it
would be feasible to use the replace feature. Conisidering all the changes.
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