In dreamweaver SSI or templates?

[hellraiser]

I plan to start a website which will have identical pages in many a sections i.e. the banner, navigational bars on the top and on the bottom will remain the same, which will be more ideal to use templates or SSI, I also plan to include other links in the future and also run google adsense on these pages in the future, what should I do?

[jesse1]

Use both!

If you create a php dwt template (which you can do), you can add in php ssi files as well!

works great for me.

I also like to add in an external CSS sheet to the dwt template.

that way you have a very flexible site.

[Corey Bryant]

SSI is pretty good. I have relied on ASP includes for a very long time. I have not used Dreamweaver's DWT but I have used Expression Web's and been very pleased with the results.

I don't know if Dreamweaver allows you to view your "complete" page with the server side includes, but if it does not, this might be a reason to use a DWT. I know Expression web is working on viewing server side includes via their program though.

[Crosshairs]

It does if you setup a local testing server