Then on our original page, add a one line command to tell server to "include" top file, and another one line command to "include" bottom file. Now, you can make a change to your "top" file for example, and change will be automatically applied to every page on your site that "includes" top file.

There is a bit of extra resource use on server to implement SSI. However with today's powerful servers, it's not issue that it once was. Most hosting companies support use of SSI, and you are usually able to change a setting so that you can continue to use .html extensions.

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4. Wait a minute - I forgot about links. Can you use your CSS skills to turn off underlines in your links, plus make them same color as rest of your text? They stand out too much if you don't do that. But, when I hover my mouse over them, I want you to give me a further display of some cool CSS tricks by making link text turn to italic and get a LOT bigger. Enough to make other text on page move around a bit. I've never seen anything like that before.

5. Now to some good stuff - your colors. Be daring here. Forget about old dark-on-light and light-on-dark basics. Try something like black text on a dark green background. Or maybe purple on red? Either way, just be different. And I don't see any reason to stick with complementary or contrasting colors. Nah, give old color wheel a spin & see what turns up. Pick 'em and use 'em in 1-2-3 order, it won't matter. If you're using tables, it's nice to change background color of every single cell. That will prove to me level of tireless effort you've put into your site just for me.

Bonus tip: If you will put menus and other navigation elements in different places on each page, and not be clear on where a click will take me, that will make me look over each page more thoroughly, and I will want to click on all those links, just because I want to know where they lead. Really I will.

By way, we hope you know that these tips were all in good fun, and very sarcastic. If you didn't know that, please buy Mr. Flanders' book, or any good book on design. Your visitors' eyes will thank you!

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