Managing navigation bars

Hi, We are in the process of developing a CMS for a static website. In terms of design, everything looks easy except the navigation bar.

We have a left hand side navigation bar that contains links to static pages of the website. Now if i need to add a new page to the website and its corresponding link to the left nav, then it becomes necessary to regenerate all the pages so that each page will have the correct left nav.

I dont want to do that. i want to keep the leftnav portion isolated from the other static pages.

One option was to use frames and to place the leftnav content on a seperate .html file. but business does not wants to use frames.

Any suggestions abt how to do this?

KingFisher
Asscociate Consultant,
Polaris Software Lab, Chennai.
http://www.polaris.co.in/

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Jeremy

Hi,

Just a suggestion, what about an include?
Something like the following would need to be placed in all the static pages :



Everytime the leftNav.html changes now it shoould read in the new one.

HTH
Jeremy

kingfisher

Does <include > tag work in .html pages?

KingFisher
Asscociate Consultant,
Polaris Software Lab, Chennai.
http://www.polaris.co.in/

Jeremy

Yes. I have it running on a website of my own at the moment. But you need to configure your server first. My webserver is Apache so here is a link on how to set up Server Side Includes for Apache. Otherwise do a search on Google for your webserver and Server Side Includes.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html

Jeremy

kingfisher

That was all i needed. Thank you very much.

KingFisher
Asscociate Consultant,
Polaris Software Lab, Chennai.
http://www.polaris.co.in/

gzevin

FYI - I've developed a solution that not only uses SSI, but has templates around it, and also a specialised workflow that handles introduction of a new category in the navbar....

Greg Zevin, Ph.D. Comp. Sc.
Independent Interwoven Consultant/Architect
Sydney, AU

Pratheesh

Hi KingFisher,

Apart from using SSI, you can also use iFrames to include the an html file as left navigation.

Regards,
Pratheesh