Updating all pages at once

Question

Hello to all,
I have now organised my files and automatically updated links
that were already created. However, I have now realised that I wish
to add something to one of my pages and link it to another page
within my site. However, this needs to be done on all my pages, how
can I accomplish this without having to go to each page and do the
link manually?
Many thanks,
Jeff

Answer 1

First, look into SSI (server side includes) which will
require major
redesign of every page on your site, but will make this
problem go away
completely in the future.
Next, use the links editor in Dreamweaver if you are changing
all specific
links in the site, or use find and replace. When used
creatively, you can
actually add or remove links to a all pages as long as there
are exact
similarities in the code.
For instance, if you have something like:
<p><a href="newpage1.htm">link
1</a></p>
<p><a href="newpage2.htm">link
2</a></p>
<p><a href="newpage3.htm">link
3</a></p>
in your code, you could find:
<p><a href="newpage3.htm">link
3</a></p>
and replace it with:
<p><a href="newpage3.htm">link
3</a></p>
<p><a href="newpage4.htm">link
4</a></p>
That will add a link to your list.
Make a backup of your site and then play with find and
replace. if you screw
it up, just restore from the backup and start again.
Then read up in SSI... change one line in one file and it
changes every page
that has the include.
"jeffuk123" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:eluh2s$gi1$[email protected]..
> Hello to all,
>
> I have now organised my files and automatically updated
links that were
> already created. However, I have now realised that I
wish to add
> something to
> one of my pages and link it to another page within my
site. However, this
> needs
> to be done on all my pages, how can I accomplish this
without having to go
> to
> each page and do the link manually?
>
> Many thanks,
> Jeff
>