I don't think CSS will help you include some navbar file. For the include you need something else.
If your server supports PHP you could use that. PHP will let you 'include' another file at any point in your HTML as you like. PHP will also let you include content from another site like you mentioned you wanted to do. PHP is quite powerful and useful for many scripting tasks.
http://www.phpmac.com/articles/view.php?id=136
Also most web server software lets do something similar called "server side includes" (SSI).
SSI is a little simpler than PHP but less powerful. I think it can only include a local file.
Your server uses Apache which has this capability. Usually Apache only looks for SSI tags in your HTML if the file extension is '.shtml' and it would be a big pain to change all your files to .shtml but perhaps your hosting company would be willing to change the Apache configuration so that it would look for SSI tags in normal .html files.
Another work around to get SSI working is outlined here: http://www.carleton.ca/%7Edmcfet/html/ssi.html
Good luck, ---Ian
There are tons of tutorials on CSS out there. I get the gist of CSS, but I'm trying to figure out how to make every page include a navbar on the left and a title bar on the top like on the LEM pages. Right now, I'm using frames, but I don't like that. I plan to use an external css that calls a seperate navbar file and title file, or I'm assuming that's the best way to do it. Any tips, or a link to a good tutorial on this? Most of what I've found focuses on fonts, etc., not embedding a page/content.
I'd also like to be able to grab content from other sites on a page as a news summary kind of thing. Any tips/URL on that? I'm guessing the two concepts are related.
Up to now, I've been using Claris HomePage. Dreamweaver 4 is in the mail on its way here. (BTW, I've heard Dreamweaver has plug-ins. Will at least some of those work w/ v.4? Is there a central site to find them?)
One final question: Is there an easy way to transform an existing HTML site to CSS, or do I just need to do some big "replaces" with BBEdit?
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