Need efficient way to post "library closing" message

On 11/30/2006 12:05 PM, Kathy Gaynor wrote:

> I'm wondering if there are other more efficient ways to
handle this other
> than manually adding the message to each page and
deleting it after we come
> back to school in January.  We recently revised our web
site to be XHTML
> compliant and to use style sheets.


There are any number of ways to take a common block of text
and include
it on multiple pages from the server's side of things.  Not
surprisingly, one of the basic approaches is called
Server-Side Includes
(SSI).  Others use various server-side scripting languages:
PHP, Cold
Fusion, etc.  Still others work through authoring tools--you
change a
template within the authoring tool and re-upload all the
affected files.

Without knowing more about your server setup, it's hard to
get specific,
so you may want to start by asking your web admin what your
options are.
 It looks like your main pages are static HTML, which likely
means that
SSI is your best bet, but that may require some Apache
reconfiguration.


-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowlingohiolink.edu
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