BloodMiser
09-08-2006, 01:58 AM
Greetings. I am a novice web developer who recently begun designing a web site. I have a large number of pages with disparate content, but need to place a sidebar with identical links on each page (which may change occasionally). From my understanding there are at least three ways to manage this:
1) Brute force copy the html for the links on each page.
2) Use a feature like Dreamweavers' libraries/templates to keep track of dependencies and make changes easier.
3) Use a separate frame with the links.
Does anyone recommend any of these approaches over the others? I have had plenty of people and resources tell me the frame approach would be quite decent, but plenty of others telling me that would prevent a large number of users (due to accessibility and browser limitations) from viewing my pages. Also, if anyone has suggestions of other ways for me to manage this, that would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
David
1) Brute force copy the html for the links on each page.
2) Use a feature like Dreamweavers' libraries/templates to keep track of dependencies and make changes easier.
3) Use a separate frame with the links.
Does anyone recommend any of these approaches over the others? I have had plenty of people and resources tell me the frame approach would be quite decent, but plenty of others telling me that would prevent a large number of users (due to accessibility and browser limitations) from viewing my pages. Also, if anyone has suggestions of other ways for me to manage this, that would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
David