[Hidden-tech] Future of Dreamweaver and Flash; Move on Microsoft?

[josh]

Florence,

There are a number of ways to accomplish including html from one file into
another.  What you have been doing with iframes is client side includes, the
information is sent to the client as separate files, one in the main frame,
and another in the iframe.  In general, I would recommend server side
include solutions, of which there are a number.

Depending on the solution you use to edit your site, templates may be
available (Dreamweaver for example has a robust templating system)

If you want to delve into it, you can learn about server side includes.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html (even though the link is from
Apache, IIS supports SSI as well)

If your server supports web programming languages, many of those provide
functions to include external files before the page is sent to the client.

You can always move to a Content Management System (see earlier discussions
on this list), which would take care of this kind of thing automatically.

As far as the if-then-else logic, that falls into the realm of web
programming languages such as ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, .Net, etc.

If you want to talk more about these kinds of issues, please feel free to
contact me at 527-5999.  We build these kinds of things for a living, but
I'm always happy to give a few minutes of advice.

-Dan Fried

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To you web developers, Wondering what's the best way to include html 
from one page into another?

I've used the iframe and the object tags and am currently still using 
the iframe as it looks slightly better in Internet Explorer (much prefer 
the look in Firefox) . It's acceptable just wondering if theres a better 
way. Also wonder is there any way to provide an if-then type display - 
something simple like alt text with an image, if the link isn't there 
display something else or nothing at all? Thanks in advance

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Thanks,

Matt Lampiasi
413-303-9167
http://florenceit.net
Florence I.T., A community I.T. shop.

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