Simplify Site Maintenance with SSI

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Then on our original page, add a one line command to tellrepparttar server to "include"repparttar 132370 top file, and another one line command to "include"repparttar 132371 bottom file. Now, you can make a change to your "top" file for example, andrepparttar 132372 change will be automatically applied to every page on your site that "includes"repparttar 132373 top file.

There is a bit of extra resource use onrepparttar 132374 server to implement SSI. However with today's powerful servers, it's notrepparttar 132375 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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Diabolical Design

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4. Wait a minute - I forgot aboutrepparttar links. Can you use your CSS skills to turn offrepparttar 132368 underlines in your links, plus make themrepparttar 132369 same color asrepparttar 132370 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 makingrepparttar 132371 link text turn to italic and get a LOT bigger. Enough to makerepparttar 132372 other text onrepparttar 132373 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 aboutrepparttar 132374 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, giverepparttar 132375 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 changerepparttar 132376 background color of every single cell. That will prove to merepparttar 132377 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.

Byrepparttar 132378 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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