Posted by dorayme on 12/16/05 01:27

> From: Alabaster <noemail@nofreakingemail.net>

> I'm creating a personal website with a titlebar and menu on the top, a
> table of contents on the left, and the main content in the middle.

What's on the right?

> I'm fairly new to html, but I am learning bits and pieces as I go along.
> I mainly use Nvu, and then go in and tweak things in the source editor
> or in notepad, based on whatever html knowledge I can figure out through
> web research.

Get a text editor. Google for one. The simpler the better at first, but one
that has search and replace functions.

> Right now I have no frames -- my titlebar and table of contents are
> reproduced on every page of my site. This works fine, except when I
> want to add or change something in the table of contents, I have to do
> it again in every single page. Frames would be better, but this seems a
> bit advanced for my knowledge of html.

Search and replace functions are quite common in many text
editors and can be done over a whole folder of files in no time
at all (you make just one change, the computer does the rest).
true, you then need to upload all the html files again to the
server. But this takes no time unless you are truly talking big
big site...

Frames could solve the drudgery too but have their own problems
in their turn and are probably best avoided by you.

-- dorayme

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