[seth700]

Firstly i'll appologise if this is in the wrong forum category. Anyway...

I've just been looking at the BBC News website (news.bbc.co.uk). I noticed that all of the webpages have the same information on the side of them - i.e. the most popular list and related links. My question is would these pages use frames to display the most popular page or some kind of server include?

What I want to try and achieve is a website that has many pages but all of which have the same layout and information on the border, but obviously the main text on the page would be different. Therefore I would only have to edit the layout of the 'master template' and all the other pages would be updated. Is frames the easiest way of achieving this?

Thanks

[d*d]

I use server side includes to do this, I have the html for the side bar stored in a directory and I add itto any page I need it on with a php include() function - alsao handy for headers, menus and footers

[brendan hart]

yeah with jsp i use an include function

<%@ include file="sidebar.jsp/html" %>

[rohit]

u can either use SSI (server side includes). So you can write header.html and include it in each page

or use php/perl/asp or any other scripting languages

use Apache Header modules (dont know the exact module name)

Cheers

Rohit
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