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Hi,

Let me begin by saying that I am not an HTML expert. The most experience
I have for HTML authoring is when I made my webpages in my grad studies
at my university and some on my home computer for experiments. I am
however familiar with programming languages and am quite familiar with
Linux (use Debian Testing).

I am in the process of revamping my old old old webpage. I have decided
not to use frames for now and try to made do without them.

So far I have figured I have the choice of pure CSS or PHP with CSS to
make a navigation menu (usually on the left hand side of the webpage).
With PHP, I can make only one nagivation menu php file and include it in
all 'content' pages. With pure CSS method, I would need to keep a copy
of the CSS based menu in all the webpages.

In PHP approach, it appears I can't use an HTML editor on Linux. And in
CSS, the problem is of maintianability , once slight change in the
content may lead to a change in all HTML files which have CSS menu in
them. So which one would be better from ease of coding and
maintainability point of view? What do others use? Are there any other
methods? If possible, I would want to stay clear of Javascript and cgi
scripting.

Hope I have made my point clear, if not, I can explain further.

Thanks,
->HS
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Aug 26 '05
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smbhatt
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Dear H.S.

I have a similar problem to you. I have about 50 pages requiring menu on the left. One way (the one I have used) is to break up the page into frames and have menu in the left frame and information on the right frame. But that does not look good.
Having seen your message posted and the replies to it by you and others, I think you do have some solution. Can you mail me the scripts and the pages for both methods - CSS & PHP?
Would PHP bsaed scripts require Linux or is it implementable on Windows servers also?
I would be very grateful if you provide me details and sample pages as I am in urgent need of the same.
One more request is to mail me at: smbhatt@yahoo.c om. I am from India, Gujarat state and am trying to earn by developing websites for people in this region.
Thanks for your help.
S.M.Bhatt
Sep 16 '05 #11

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