Update Your Entire Website Instantly Using Server Side Includes

Written by Vishal Rao


Imagine my plight... I have 100+ pages on my website and I have to change my e-mail address andrepparttar copyright info on allrepparttar 134539 pages. The reason...

My mail box is over-flown with junk mails.

My only option is to edit all my web pages offline and then upload each one of them again, not to mention countless errors I make inrepparttar 134540 process.

100+ pages is still a small website. Imagine what it will be like if my website had 1000+ pages?

Sounds scary right?

If you would like to avoidrepparttar 134541 kind of mess I'm in right now, you have one option. Start using "Server Side Includes (SSI)"

In technical jargon, Server Side Includes are directives which you can place into your HTML documents to execute other programs or output such data as environment variables and file statistics.

If your only intention is to manage your website more effectively and painlessly, it is more than enough if you learn one "Directive" of SSI -repparttar 134542 "Include" directive.

In simple terms, SSI Include is a line of code which you can use in your HTML documents to include contents from other documents. In other words, change just one file (the Include file), and your ENTIRE SITE is instantly updated!

The basic syntax of an Include directive is:

Where PATH_TO isrepparttar 134543 "VIRTUAL" path to include file on your server.

Here's how to include your copyright info and navigation links using SSI Includes...

First, you need to check with your server administrator whether your server supports SSI or not. Most servers support them.

Second, you need to rename all your HTML files with extension .shtml

Top Secret Tips for a Perfect Color Scheme

Written by Mike Morgan


Many Web page builders agonize unnecessarily over choosing a color scheme for their pages. In addition torepparttar color choices themselves,repparttar 134538 proportion of those colors is also critical torepparttar 134539 overall look ofrepparttar 134540 Web page. Fortunately, there is a very simple, foolproof way to create a perfectly harmonized and proportionate color palette.

This method is so simple, and so effective, that I don't know why it isn't plastered all overrepparttar 134541 web ... but it isn't, it's still a "secret".

I use Adobe PhotoShop, butrepparttar 134542 technique will work with any graphics creation or editing program with an eyedropper tool andrepparttar 134543 ability to open an image file.

1. Find any image -- anywhere, I userepparttar 134544 web frequently -- in which you findrepparttar 134545 colors visually appealing. Don't worry about copyright because you will not be copying any part ofrepparttar 134546 image. It doesn't matter why you findrepparttar 134547 colors appealing, just that you do. To determine whether it isrepparttar 134548 colors or some other aspect ofrepparttar 134549 image that you find attractive, squint your eyes untilrepparttar 134550 image blurs. Ifrepparttar 134551 colors alone are still appealing, use that image.

2. Saverepparttar 134552 image, then open it in your image editing application. I'll call this your "source" image. Open a new document inrepparttar 134553 same work area. This is your "palette" image.

3. Fromrepparttar 134554 source image, determinerepparttar 134555 color that coversrepparttar 134556 most area. Userepparttar 134557 eyedropper tool to sample that color. In your palette image, userepparttar 134558 paint bucket (or fill) tool to set this asrepparttar 134559 background color.

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