Navbar Links

[IThurts]

Hi again people,
Iv been busy working with my portfolio and have a nice little site coming along. Nothing too flashy but just utilising gradients in photoshop to get a nice-ish design for my site.


Anyway, am i being really thick if iwas to ask th below:

LINKS (ie: navbar links)....how the heck do i code it so the links are part of my style sheet as opposed to embedded in my HTML doc? Obviously i am racking up a few HTML pages now, and dont really want to have to add EACH link for EACH webpage to update the links in the navbar, if i say add another page to my site.

I am getting to the stage where i wanted to create some buttons in photoshop and use them as my navbar links instead of chunky coded buttons. So i have created the button template, and am ready to link a page to it in the navbar but then realised the above question!!

Hope that all made sense and look forward to any responses.



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[tripwire45]

I think this article I found at techrepublic is the closest you'll come to finding what you're looking for.

[SiFor]

I've never seen it done before, if your host supports PHP you could very easily do it using some very simple php and make elements like the header footer and navbar alot easier to manage.

Let me know if you need some help with the code.

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by SiFor

I've never seen it done before, if your host supports PHP you could very easily do it using some very simple php and make elements like the header footer and navbar alot easier to manage.

Let me know if you need some help with the code.

So you mean to tell me that there is no way to update navbar links using CSS stylesheets?? Which means i am going to have to write in links in every page of my html docs so each page displays the new link in the navbar?

Guess i best start learning PHP....

My ultimate next question would be then...if my website is local only to my machine at the mo, i cannot update links in my navbar other than the before mentioned method stated above?

[ThomasMc]

If i have picked you up correctly you could use SSI(Server Side Includes), save you menu in a file called menu.inc and the pop this in the pages where you want to display the menu

<!--#include FILE="menu.inc" -->

this should mean you only need to edit the menu.inc to change your nav or learn something dynamic as per

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by ThomasMc

If i have picked you up correctly you could use SSI(Server Side Includes), save you menu in a file called menu.inc and the pop this in the pages where you want to display the menu

<!--#include FILE="menu.inc" -->

this should mean you only need to edit the menu.inc to change your nav or learn something dynamic as per

That is exactly what i was after. Thanks for that Thomas.Rep awarded. So this SSI file, im lost as to how to begin. Should i create the file as a .inc file?? What code do i include?

Maybe i should google it
Any hlp would be great though

[ThomasMc]

it would look something like my attachment, heres a good place to start

also if your server doesn't support SSI, the PHP(if supported)/JavaScript example in that link are viable option as its not too complex

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by ThomasMc

it would look something like my attachment, heres a good place to start

also if your server doesn't support SSI, the PHP(if supported)/JavaScript example in that link are viable option as its not too complex

Thanks again Thomas, great help, exactly what i was after. I had a thought actually....(wait for it)...and assumed when first starting out that CSS would do all of what i enquired about in its External style sheet. Surely this is what the purpose of CSS are? I guess CSS gears more towards design simplification/convienience rather than things like my initial question. It would be handy to be able to include the "include files" in your CSS, although im aware it doesnt work like that, would be handy to be able to include these files within the Stylesheet itself. Maybe im after too much of an easy life

Cheers guys.

[Stoney]

CSS is supposed to be used for controlling the format and layout of the web page, not the actual content, hence why you can't specify the hyperlinks in the CSS file. You can create all sorts of classes to format them however you like, but you can't change the content.

HTH

[Mitzs]

Welcome to Dynamic Drive's new CSS library! Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/

[tripwire45]

Originally Posted by Mitzs

Welcome to Dynamic Drive's new CSS library! Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/

Gosh, Mitzs...you sound like a spammer.

[wizard]

Originally Posted by tripwire45

Gosh, Mitzs...you sound like a spammer.

Don't say that, I can hear her rummaging in her desk draw for the roll of duct tape

[Mitzs]

Originally Posted by wizard

Don't say that, I can hear her rummaging in her desk draw for the roll of duct tape

Duck tape hell, I'm gonna get my flame thrower out for that one.

[tripwire45]

You have to catch me first.

[Mitzs]

Originally Posted by tripwire45

You have to catch me first.

Your not as fast as you use to be old man.