what is a server side include (ssi) file?
These are generally used when the same element is going to be used on several pages (such as a navigation panel or copyright). This can then simply be linked to in the relevant HTML file. This makes site maintenance easier as you only have to include one line of code and changes only have to be made to one file rather than editing every single page. Call the file filename.html (or .inc if your editor allows you to create files with this extension – Dreamweaver 3 did not, but this has been fixed in Dreamweaver 4). Save it in a folder called something like /includes/ in the web site to also help ease site maintenance. Use the following HTML (e.g): or Depending on how the server is set up, may have to call the page the ssi is linked to in pagename.shtml which tells the server to pick up the linked to ssi file. In addition, the server may have to be configured to call up the index.shtml as th
