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HTML - An Easier Way To Manage Growing Websites?
In the beginning, managing a relatively small website was easy if I wanted to change the menu and main template. I could just go in and change the snippets of code on each html document. Now that my website a little larger (Not huge, but somewhere around 60/70 pages), it is starting to get far harder to change the menu and general template because I have to change each individual page. For example: I want to add another link on the left side menu. To do this, I must go through every single html document and edit the code.
So my question is, is there an easier way to do this? Can I somehow set up a master template without having to resort to frames? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you! Similar TutorialsHi, I have a pretty general question but i'm posting it here since it pertains to xhtml and content. As far as I understand the big deal about css is that it makes your sites flexible and lets you edit the layout and look of every page just by changing the stylesheet/s they are linked to. Is there a way to do this with content? What if I have hundreds of pages and want to add a link to the navigation bar? Is there a way to link templates and content to script the same way I link css? Thank you in advance and feel free to move this if this isn't the appropriate board. Is there any way you can get a table row to grow in height as you type into it? I tried a textarea, which I know has scroll bars, but the users are asking for an automatically growing row within which the text wraps in a cell, rather than a fixed row height and scroll bars. I'm trying to make a little secret santa auto-emailer thing for my family. I've run into a bit of a problem with some html. I'm trying to superimpose each persons christmas list over the image of a scroll, so it's like it's written on the scroll. (Corny, I know, but it's christmas!) The problem is when people have wishlists that are too long. Attached are two images to illustrated: This is how it should look: Good. but this is what happens when their list is too long: Bad. I'm using tables to do it right now, but I'm open to whatever (except maybe CSS. If it's easy I could, but otherwise I'm a noob). My current approach was to divide the image into 9 sections, put each section into a cell in the table, and superimpose the text over the top of the center cell. (I know I could've divided it into fewer images, 3 probably, I will if I have to reupload the images). Here's the code I'm using right now: Code: <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<TR><TH><img src="http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/9459/101zx7.png"> <!--top left image-->
<TH><img src="http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9360/102xj5.png"><!--top center image-->
<TH><img src="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/3449/103xh4.png"><!--top right image-->
<TR height="446"><TH><img src="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5594/104du5.png"><!--middle left image-->
<TH width="311" background="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5290/105ql2.png"><!--center image-->
{The Christmas List Goes Here}
<TH><img src="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/3397/106iv7.png"><!--middle right mage-->
<TR><TH><img src="http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5362/107xc4.png"><!--bottom left image-->
<TH><img src="http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/1498/108jd6.png"><!--bottom center image-->
<TH><img src="http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8285/109br7.png"><!--bottom right image-->
</table>
I don't need anyone to code it exactly for me, just point me in the right direction. I'm fine with modifying the images so there's a section that can be repeated without looking bad. I'm just not sure how to dynamically "grow" the scroll as the list gets longer. Can anyone help me? how to manage cells height, e.g. have control over them in HTML, say I want a height to be 2px. site http://members.dodo.com.au/~rouslan/...ite/index.html td height and tr height codes didn't work, table or cells keep stretching themselves up or down In the past I have been designing websites to learn about web designing. In order to keep my sites update able I used frames and includes so I wouldn't have to make a chnage on every single page if there was a small problem. In the future I plan to design professional websites for people. So how do the webmasters who design websites keep the websites update able. I have seen advantages and disadvantages of using frames and includes. Now I want to know the professional and common way of how these webmasters are doing it, so I can also do my stuff that way too. Another question I have is as you know IE 6 does not support png's tranparent background. So what do the professional's do about this I have seen png's on professional websites but what happens to the IE 6 viewers thanks, ALi I've got a bunch of tel: links on a site that work great with mobiles and desktops that have softphones but how can I tell the browser to not treat it like a dead link if no such application exists? Here's an example - clik on any phone number: http://sketch.uk.com/admin_contacts.php?menu=8 What's an easier (shorter) way to combine these elements? Code: <font face="verdana"><font size="3"><font color=#000000;"> thanks Does anyone know any useful websites to learn how to use HTML? I've used w3school's but i don't find it great. Hello! I was wondering how you make a little logo to your website like the one on google.com for an example. I'm a student learning XHTML. As part of a project I need to locate websites which provide troubleshooting tips for different problems (images, wacky tables, etc). Does anyone know of an especially good website for obtaining this kind of info? Help is greatly appreciated. if i want to make the content of 1 frame on my website, another website ?? how do i do this???? How do professional websites update all of their pages at once? For instance I see that a website has change the navbar in every page, (1000+ pages) At the moment, I first make my home page, then I copy&paste it and change the text etc, but if I wanted to change the navbar, I would be needing to change every single page 1 by 1. Hey whatsup? I am working on a wrestling site ( www.bballcentral.com/stkf ). ANyways, im trying to get videos up onto the site? How do i do that and what sthe best ways? Hi, I'm new to HTML and my interest is purely in coding for emails. My specific challenge de jour is coding a photo into an email without it (i) needing to be on an external server or (ii) an attachment. I want the photo to travel with the email body with no external link. Is this possible and if so, can I be pointed to an example of same? Cheers. Hi everyone, When using the zoom function on a website, should the elements move and disjoint? I'm fairly sure they shouldn't but it's a question going round... thoughts? Nick I had created a similar thread here a while back but that was regarding site "maintenance". I am now bidding for my first paid job locally here in NY but this is all I have to go on from the person: The work on my website will require flash/animation inserts. They will be self-building PowerPoint slides. Which of your samples includes or comes closest to that? You must give me a maximum compensation figure if you want to be considered. I had told him that I cannot give a price without knowing all details, how many pages, images, if the need animation e.t.c and I still don't know but that is mainly how it's done here in NY, people tell you next to nothing and ask you what you will charge, how would you guys handle this please? hi, i am currently trying to learn HTML and wanted a free live website to practice on, however when i signed up for one at tripod.com, i had to use some setup guide thing, even when i clicked "start a blank website". most other free website services seem to have something similar. Is there a way around this, so i can start from scratch and build the website purely with html/xhtml etc. or a different histing service that lets you do this? any information would be appreciated, thank you Hi I have a website that i publish videos in a flash player (like youtube, etc) but its not a youtube. What i am wanting to do is get some sort of html code that i can provide to my users to let them copy it and paste it in there website to have the video player play on there site, kind of how all the other videos sites do it with those embedd tags. Can anyone share some code to help me do this??? thanks so much! Hey guys I just got an oppurtunity for an internship this summer and I need some Ideas for a small little portfolio (some small web pages and such) also maybee some banner ideas. Here is the email I got "We design and create anything from a simple 3 to 5 page website to huge applications for an organization or even a municipality. My ongoing project is www.ourfortworth.com (OFW.) It is a web community I created in 1999 just for kicks. Since then, it has grown to an average of 85,000+ visitors each month. OFW focuses only on local information and advertising for local businesses. The "full color display type" ads you see at the top and on the sides of each page are something we are constantly making for new or existing advertisers. We usually change or update the ads when ad contracts renew every three to six months. We are just starting our Restaurant Guide to complement the business directory we are working on. Most of the work initially would be the ads I mentioned above and the basic 3 to 5 page websites for small businesses. I would like to talk with you when you have time and get a feel for the style of work you produce, your basic design style, etc. to see if we might be a good fit to work together. " Any programs that y'all know that work well for making banners? Also I know HTML pretty well , what would help me practice getting better at it or what should I move onto? Just looking for some Ideas.. (By the way I'm 17 and know XHTML) Thanks, Randy Today's websites, most people focus on building them with more advanced languages such as PHP & MySQL, am I right? Do people still build full websites using only HTML and CSS? The only HTML/CSS sites I really see nowadays are usually old informational static websites that never change. |
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