Where can I find out what *.shtml, *.shtm, or SSI is?
Server Side Includes let you take multiple files and combine them into one working file before the document is sent to the user. SSI makes it easier to maintain large sites by allowing you to change only one file instead of the entire site. SSI also has other applications such as including the current date, the last time the document was updated, the URL of the current page, and more. Files that are parsed by the server sometimes have the extension *.shtml or *.shtm. You should note, however, that SSI is an inefficient solution to the problem of inserting one set of information into many files. SSI relies on the server to parse (assemble) the document every time it is accessed. The preferred method would be to use site-management software (a simple Perl or PHP script would suffice) that could be run once to sort through all of your static HTML files and replace the old markup with information from a freshly updated “source” file. Comments () would most likely be used to
