Newbie needs some help

[Chucklehead]

I used to do some webdesign a couple years back and I'm just getting back into it. To start, I'm making a website for my World of Warcraft (video game) guild for practice. I have a basic layout setup, there is no preview yet sorry, and I have a question regarding my navigation bar, the links to on the left of my layout.

When I used to make websites, I remember using a code that would insert my navigation bar, which would be saved as navi.html or something. I would save my pages in .shtml. I forgot where I got this script. Does anyone have any clue what I'm talking about? Thanks for the help.

[sypher]

Do you mean server side includes?

[Coty Skaj]

I wish you had a preview so we could all see what you mean. It makes things a whole lot easier. I understand if you can not do so but it would be a great help.

[minute44]

Sounds like you used to use frames...

We don't do that anymore.

[fr3nch13]

.shtml is usually associated with server side includes (ssi) i have had experience with using them on apache. however, i have found it better to just use php or something like this to accomplish this. not only can you include files, but obviously you can do alot more. assuming you have php installed, its:

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<?php include('path/to/file.php'); ?>

or, if you still want to use ssi. then it'll look like:

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        <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/counter.pl" -->

here is a link that can explain ssi pretty well.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/ssi.html