As sites become larger and larger, site management becomes a larger worry.
How do I keep a 2000-page site updated? How do I keep navigation elements
consistent? How do I manage to change the nav on a 2000-page site without
losing all my hair? There are a few methods in Dreamweaver that accomplish
this. Templates Library Items Server Side Includes (SSIs) Templates and
Library Items can be used with any type of server, and SSIs can as well,
provided your host has enabled the ability. In order to use SSIs, your page
must have an extension that will be processed by the server, .html usually
won't do the trick. If you're on a Unix box, it will need to be .shtml, or if
you're using some other server language (regardless of server type), it would
need to be .php, .cfm, .jsp, .asp, or .aspx, or any other server language you
may be using. The syntax for calling the SSI will ... (more)