Posted by Vince Morgan on 11/12/06 08:50

"Terry Liittschwager" <terrytoo@wildblue.net> wrote in message
news:45569cc0$0$31571$88260bb3@news.teranews.com...
> For the past several years, my wife and some other ladies have had a
little
> charity that provides comfort quilts to "at risk" children. Increasingly
> she has been getting asked if they had a website, so I decided to set one
> up for her. The website, comfortsforchildren.org is very amateurish thus
> far since I have no expertise in this area, but I'm learning - slowly,
> though, 67 year-old retired brains don't learn fast.
>
> Anyway, my current very basic question concerns the navigation bar on the
> upper left of each page. It's the same for each page, works fine, and is
> currently implemented with the following lines in each page:
>
> <div class="navbar">
> <p><a href="index.html">Home</a></p>
> <p><a href="policies.html">Policies</a></p>
> <p><a href="agencies.html">Agencies<br />Served</a></p>
> <p><a href="statistics.html">Statistics</a></p>
> <p><a href="construct.html">Quilt<br>Construction</a></p>
> <p><a href="testimonials.html">Testimonials</a></p>
> <p><a href="history.html">History</a></p>
> </div>
>
> The problem is that whenever I want to add another line, I have to edit
> every page. I'm sure there must be some way to have those lines in a
> separate file, referenced by one line unchanging line in each page, so
that
> when I change the navbar, I only have to do it in the one place. For the
> life of me, though, I haven't found out how to do that.
>
> I've tried using <link href="navbar.html" /> with navbar.html a file with
> those lines, but all that happens is that the navbar disappears.
>
> I've also tried @import, but it appears that only works within a style
> definition.
>
> So, could someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Any and all suggestions will be most welcome.
>
> Terry L
>
What about a frame? Not the recomended route these days, but considering
the circumstances, are they realy that evil?
I know there are issues with printing etc, etc, but are these issues a
problem for this particular site?
If you don't have access to a php engine, or similar, it seems to be a
plausible solution in this case.
<caveat>
My HTML knowledge is largely miniscule :)
</caveat>
Regards,
Vince Morgan

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