I want to get my menu code which includes rollover image script off my homepages and get it into a different file somehow. I could us SSI where I have one file for the menu and it would work for all pages. The only problem is that I believe I need to change the .html or .htm of the pages to .shtm . The website is getting some search engine traffic right now and I dont want to cause a SEO problem by changing the pages that way. If I knew it wouldn't bother the search engines and the ranking the site has now, I would make the change. Any input will be appreciated. Thanks.
You could, instead, try to add a mime-type in your .htaccess file for html so it reads .html has .shtml and then you could use SSI without having to change all the file extensions and lose all the pagerank and SEO for those pages. Take a look over here for some help. (Google Search)
As fsmedia said - use htaccess to make your server process html & htm files as if they were stm or php files.
and the precise code to add to .htaccess to do above said would look like: AddType x-mapp-php4 .html .htm .shtml removeHandler server-parsed shtml with above you can include now on ANY htm/html/shtml file that edxists already or a new one your php-SSI if your current site has NO .shtml files - then you can remove in both above lines the .shtml