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fjpoblam · 09-10-2007, 10:52 AM

...yes, I had the same temptation, early in my large website. I noticed, as you are probably noticing, that all the pages have roughly the same header and footer. You can do it easily doing a PHP self-file or a javascript-write imbedded in the "head" and "tail" of each one.

But then, the question pops up, are you doing it for YOUR ease of maintenance? You should, in the end, consider, your visitor's ease of viewing, and bite the bullet, and place the same ol' header and footer, hand-coded or copied and pasted, into each file. Use lots of CSS and place that CSS in one shared external file. It'll speed up the load for each page, in the long run.

09-10-2007, 10:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
fjpoblam Senior Googler Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Santa Fe, NM Posts: 144 Thanks: 0 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts	A tempting idea, but... ...yes, I had the same temptation, early in my large website. I noticed, as you are probably noticing, that all the pages have roughly the same header and footer. You can do it easily doing a PHP self-file or a javascript-write imbedded in the "head" and "tail" of each one. But then, the question pops up, are you doing it for YOUR ease of maintenance? You should, in the end, consider, your visitor's ease of viewing, and bite the bullet, and place the same ol' header and footer, hand-coded or copied and pasted, into each file. Use lots of CSS and place that CSS in one shared external file. It'll speed up the load for each page, in the long run.