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I’m all for making things as easy as possible. The whole idea in business, and life, is to work smarter not harder. When designing websites, I not only want to create them with as little effort as possible, but I also want to make maintaining them easy.
One way to do this is with Server Side Includes (SSI). SSI’s are an easy way to add or update content to one or more web pages on a site. One way I use SSI’s is for the copyright on my pages. By changing the year in one file, it changes the year on all of my pages. I also use SSI’s for the links on my pages. If I decide to add or remove a link, or rearrange them, I simply make the changes in one file and my entire site is automatically updated. As I said before, make it easy. Why should I go to each of the 80 plus pages on my site to change something when I can do the same thing with one little file?
Another great thing about SSI’s is that you can’t see them on a web page. If you, or anyone, view the contents of your page, the SSI won’t show. Instead, you will only see the HTML put there by the SSI.
Before you try to use SSI’s you need to check with your web host to see if the server is set up for them. Most servers are. If they say they are, then you need to do a little test. Create a web page with the following HTML.
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