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1: Creating A Site Profile In Dreamweaver
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3: Creating Tables With Dreamweaver
4: Creating Hyperlinks And Bookmarks With Dreamweaver
5: Modify Fonts In Dreamweaver Using HTML & CSS
6: Using the SHIFT + ENTER <BR> Tag
7: Using Server Side Include Files With Dreamweaver
8: Using The Find and Replace & Check Spelling Functions In Dreamweaver
9: Changing File Permissions And Installing Scripts With Dreamweaver
10: Previewing Dreamweaver Web Pages In Browser
11: Inserting Images, Pictures Into Web Pages With Dreamweaver
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Using Server Side Include Files With Dreamweaver
Ahh, server side includes...one of my favorite topics in website building...Why you ask?
Well, they are a huge time saver...let me explain:
When I was a newbie to creating websites, I would create a site with maybe 10 pages, each of them linked together with a navigation bar at the top of the page.
However, when I want to add page #11 and #12, I would have to open up each of the 10 pages and add a link to the navigation area in all of them!
This is just one example of how not using server side includes can waste your time.
What server side includes do is make it so you can 'include' the content of 1 webpage in another webpage.
The idea, at least for the example above, is to include an html page like 'navigation.html' in all 10 of the webpages...and then if I want to add a few links to the navigation bar, I simply open up the 1 webpage, navigation.html and add the links, save it, and then all 10 other pages are automatically updated!
You can see how much time this can save you, and SSI (server side includes) are useful for many other things too!
You can use SSI to include Adsense code in all your webpages...and then if you decide you want to try a different background color, simply change the code in the 1 file and update all the pages on your site which include that file!
Dreamweaver does a great job of helping webmasters to use SSI more frequently...In fact all you have to do is click the SSI button:
and then choose which file you want to include.
It is useful to include files in your sites core template...Personally, I like to use 2 or 3 per page because it make your webpages more flexible and easier to update.
There are some things you need to know though when using SSI.
1. There are 2 types of SSI available in Dreamweaver: File & Virtual
To include a file usually entails including a file in the same folder.
Example: < !--#include file="ssisample.html" -->
To include a virtual file usually mean to include a file that is in the root of your folder
example: <!--#include virtual="/ssisample.html" --> might be used if the file is located in the root directory of your server.
It is easy enough to experiment and see how it works, and once you grasp how to use SSI, building and updating websites will become faster and easier.
2. Your server must allow you to parse HTML files...Most servers do, will the small condition that you have to name your files with the .shtml file extenstion.
Personally, I prefer to modify my .htaccess code so that I can use SSI in any HTML file, and it is easy to do...
Just use notepad to create a file with the following contents:
Options Includes
AddType text/html .html
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .htm
and save it as just .htaccess (not htaccess.txt)
Then upload that to your server...this works on most webservers...
If it doesn't you can use the .shtml filename for your webpages, or use PHP includes which works just the same as other includes, only the webpage must have the php file extension.
3. The page you include doesn't have the <html>, <head>, <body> tags...
The page you include just needs to have the code you want to include, so remember to switch to code view and delete out everything before you create your file. Start with a totally blank page and create your links or your banner, or whatever you want to include in your other pages.
SSI is very important and very easy to use once you get the hang of it.
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