Template question- creating / inserting

Question

Hi, I am setting up an online store (here is the test page-
http://www.drcelly.com/6100manual
) and I am using a program to create it. It is pretty nice, its
good for people who do not know much about php / asp, in fact you
don’t even have to know html. It is not as good as the more
advanced programs but it does work for me (its called shopping cart
system 4.0). The program asks for a product title, then you push a
button and it brings up the description box which allows you to
type text in (it has formatting options to change font size, bold,
different fonts, ect) and also has a "html view" box so you can see
how the text is formatted. By default, when you enter text the
program inserts two tags, <P align=left>your_text</P>
(them two tags).
The items in the store have the same description, just under
different categories (I sell cell phone parts- what i mean by they
have the same description is the LG vx6100 phone and the Samsung
a610 are going to have the same description - "this antenna has a
screw in base...." ect ...... so the only difference is going to be
the picture and the title (which are separate fields from the
category description).
So I was wondering is if I can create a template titled
"antennas" for ex. in Dreamweaver and set all my antenna pages to
display that text. One possible solution is to make the text in the
description an image- and in the description of every antenna page,
I can tell it to insert that picture (antenna.gif for example).
That way if I ever want to change the description of all the
antennas, I don’t have to manually do all of them I can just
modify that one image. Does anyone know if there is a way I can do
this- but instead of doing it with an image, do it with text? If
so, I can create a template for every item, and since 90% of the
parts will have the same description, it will save me lots of time.
Any advice would be appreciated.. PS here is a screen shot of the
editor
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/mds33200/Image2-1.jpg

Answer 1

Can I try to simplify your question?
Are you asking if there's any way to create a fragment of
content that gets
automatically inserted into all pages on the site? If so,
have you
investigated the use of server-side includes?
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"mds33200" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Hi, I am setting up an online store (here is the test
page-
>
http://www.drcelly.com/6100manual
) and I am using a program to create it.
> It
> is pretty nice, its good for people who do not know much
about php / asp,
> in
> fact you don?t even have to know html. It is not as good
as the more
> advanced
> programs but it does work for me (its called shopping
cart system 4.0).
> The
> program asks for a product title, then you push a button
and it brings up
> the
> description box which allows you to type text in (it has
formatting
> options to
> change font size, bold, different fonts, ect) and also
has a "html view"
> box so
> you can see how the text is formatted. By default, when
you enter text the
> program inserts two tags, <P
align=left>your_text</P> (them two tags).
>
> The items in the store have the same description, just
under different
> categories (I sell cell phone parts- what i mean by they
have the same
> description is the LG vx6100 phone and the Samsung a610
are going to have
> the
> same description - "this antenna has a screw in
base...." ect ...... so
> the
> only difference is going to be the picture and the title
(which are
> separate
> fields from the category description).
>
> So I was wondering is if I can create a template titled
"antennas" for ex.
> in
> Dreamweaver and set all my antenna pages to display that
text. One
> possible
> solution is to make the text in the description an
image- and in the
> description of every antenna page, I can tell it to
insert that picture
> (antenna.gif for example). That way if I ever want to
change the
> description of
> all the antennas, I don?t have to manually do all of
them I can just
> modify
> that one image. Does anyone know if there is a way I can
do this- but
> instead
> of doing it with an image, do it with text? If so, I can
create a template
> for
> every item, and since 90% of the parts will have the
same description, it
> will
> save me lots of time. Any advice would be appreciated..
PS here is a
> screen
> shot of the editor
>
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/mds33200/Image2-1.jpg
>