Displaying content on multiple html pages

Question

I’m building a basic website for a business/charity I
work in. I’m no pro so all my pages and templates are written
in HTML. For convenience it would be nice to have sustain bits of
info appear throughout the website on different pages. As I
understand the best way to do this is to create a RSS feed and then
have the relevant web pages display the feed.
However I’ve been reading up on how to do this and I am
finding it very complicated and am not even sure if it can be done
with an HTML page. All the examples I have come across seem to be
done in PHP. I’m not even sure what PHP is.
My question therefore is: Firstly, is RSS, what I need, or is
there a simpler way of having bits of text appear on multiple web
pages? And, if so, can I have RSS feeds display in an HTML? And,
again, if so, can someone point me in the right direction to do
this in the most simple but yet still efficient/reliable way?
Thank You
Ps, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Answer 1

> Firstly, the web page displaying the SSI code seems to
require a .shtml
> extension, is this correct?
Yes. It is true *unless* the host enables server parsing of
all extensions.
> Secondly, I don?t seem to have to change the SSI source
file?s extension
> from
> .html to .ssi. And in fact I think it will make updating
the website
> easier for
> my colleagues if I keep the extension to .html as, when
I change the file
> extension to .ssi, Dreamweaver?s properties inspector
and CSS panels
> become
> inactive meaning that the only way to edit the file is
going state into
> the
> code rather than using a point and click interface. Is
there any reason
> the SSI
> source file should not keep an .html extension.
Name the file being included anything you want. It doesn't
matter to its
functionality as an included file.
> Is there any open source or low cost software out there
that would make it
> easier for my colleagues to update the website?s SSI
files and still be
> able to
> format the text with the same CSS fill the whole website
uses. Is this
> what the
> Contribute program in Macromedia Studio does?
A properly constructed include file should only contain
references to CSS
rules specified in the parent page. That being the case, if
you are editing
the include file directly, you cannot style the text unless
you are doing it
in Dreamweaver, or unless you make reference to the existing
styles
specified in the parent page.
Contribute does lots more than what you ask. Go to Adobe's
site and read
about it.
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Adobe Community Expert
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"Chopo^2" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Ok, cool, thanks for all the help, I've even managed to
get the text in
> the
> .ssi document to obey the same CSS rules as the rest of
my web pages. Just
> a
> few last question concerning extensions and user
friendliness before I?m
> perfectly comfortable with using SSI.
>
> Firstly, the web page displaying the SSI code seems to
require a .shtml
> extension, is this correct?
>
> Secondly, I don?t seem to have to change the SSI source
file?s extension
> from
> .html to .ssi. And in fact I think it will make updating
the website
> easier for
> my colleagues if I keep the extension to .html as, when
I change the file
> extension to .ssi, Dreamweaver?s properties inspector
and CSS panels
> become
> inactive meaning that the only way to edit the file is
going state into
> the
> code rather than using a point and click interface. Is
there any reason
> the SSI
> source file should not keep an .html extension.
>
> Is there any open source or low cost software out there
that would make it
> easier for my colleagues to update the website?s SSI
files and still be
> able to
> format the text with the same CSS fill the whole website
uses. Is this
> what the
> Contribute program in Macromedia Studio does?
>
> Thanks a lot everyone,
>
> Chopo
>