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rheogh
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Posted: 2007-Feb-23 06:28
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Hi, just found this tonight through and email signature. I love it thank you to everyone that puts there time into this.

Ok, here is the question, I am starting section on our website and in the course of doing it I have changed the look several times. This made me realize I can not keep recoding all the pages.

How can I change the look without have to change every page all the time, I thing that is what CSS does but have never worked with it.

There are two areas that I am especially concerned about, the Navigation at the top and the footer at the bottom with the links to our other sites, copyright, etc.

I wouldn't want to implement a solution that is not search engine friendly so please specify that you know it won't.

If you want to see the example section of the site it is www.BeverlyHillsDirectory.com/Inside

Thank you!
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Posted: 2007-Feb-23 20:40
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You need to use external CSS file.

Example:

yoursite.css


Code: [copy]





yoursite.html


Code: [copy]





Next time, you need to modify yoursite.css file only.



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Posted: 2007-Feb-23 20:41
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If you are looking for some solution to separate your header and footer html code then you need to use SSI (Server Side Includes).



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Posted: 2007-Feb-23 20:48
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if you don't know how to do CSS, the includes are the way to go



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Posted: 2007-Apr-15 16:45
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Yeah, they pretty much said it. You've got to either use an external CSS file, or a modular site design with includes.

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Posted: 2007-Apr-16 03:25
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I've been using a CMS system. All of the templates are controlled by an external html and a css file. I didn't really know CSS when I started, but in a very short time I became capable of manipulating the CSS so that the template is unrecognizable from the default.

Through the CSS I can use the template over and over and no one knows that it all came from the same basic one.

Just start experimenting on a test site and you will master CSS files in no time. No pain, no gain


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