hi, I am a beginer and I need some help. My site has about thirty pages. As I update the navigation, I have to go back and change all thirty pages. Is there a way to have a bisic page that loads the navigation from one file to save having to change all thrty pages one at a time? Any help would be appreciated.

bob0162

If you would like to have a section of your Web site which can be updated simply by updating one file, the best option is to use some form of includes, whether that be PHP includes ( http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Basic-PHP-Includes/9735 ), server side includes ( http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/design.html#include-file ) or ASP includes ( http://www.aspwebpro.com/tutorials/asp/includefiles.asp )

You will need to speak with your Web host to find out which of those three forms of includes they support.

Another option offered by Dreamweaver is to create a template page, from which all of your content pages will be built. I realize this is kind of two steps back, one step forward, but if your content pages are not that complicated, it may be an easy fix. This way, any time you make a change to the template file, all the subsequent content pages will change accordingly.