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Title: Site Design - one menu?
Post by: madmax on April 27, 2006, 10:00:56 AM
just wondering how everyone else keeps a consistant menu / header / footer across their pages.

not deployed anything yet but can already see it being a bit of a ball ache having to copy out sections of html for each page to have consitent menus.

plus updating EVERY page to reflect a new menu item  :(

is there a simplier way im missing without doing hideous iframes  :?:
Title: Re:Site Design - one menu?
Post by: brummie on April 27, 2006, 10:04:33 AM
i use a CMS cause i to lazy to do anything from scratch  :D
Title: Re:Site Design - one menu?
Post by: madmax on April 27, 2006, 10:08:21 AM
you mean content management software?

any recommendations in what to look at?
free and uncomplicated for the peons here would be nice ;)
Title: Re:Site Design - one menu?
Post by: brummie on April 27, 2006, 10:14:52 AM
Quote from: madmaxyou mean content management software?

any recommendations in what to look at?
free and uncomplicated for the peons here would be nice ;)


i like xoops but their is quite a few to choose from. Xoops is quite simple and has plenty of ad ons to the site to take the sting out of creating one. Plenty of users world wide. have a look at mine http://www.fore.me.uk but tbh that only used to show pics to me family :D

Drupal
Joomla
Mambo Open Source
Wordpress

are worth a look at.
Title: Site Design - one menu?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on April 27, 2006, 10:15:07 AM
you can use php to include the same file on each page. Otherwise you can use SSI (server side includes). Depends what your server supports.
Title: Re:Site Design - one menu?
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on April 27, 2006, 10:45:03 AM
php includes are the easiest I find.

Title: Re:Site Design - one menu?
Post by: neXus on April 27, 2006, 11:58:42 AM
Asp,jsp... and php tag code withen the page calling classes and functions in an ordered model.
Title: Re:Site Design - one menu?
Post by: SteveF on April 27, 2006, 12:29:23 PM
Title: Re:Site Design - one menu?
Post by: madmax on April 27, 2006, 13:31:03 PM
anything in the ASP.net side i can use?

preferable to me to use that as ive got a good understanding of .net code and syntax
Title: Re:Site Design - one menu?
Post by: madmax on April 27, 2006, 14:59:37 PM
looking better, just figured out i can place "web controls" (.ascxs) and embed them wherever i like.

so i can make one called menu.ascx and put it in the menu div on the page and then if there are new items in the menu list, i change them in there and its a one time only change.  :D

probably better solutions but itll do for news items section as well :D