Left hand menu re-design.....what is best?

On my site

www.costaandsierra.com

I'm looking to change the menu as I have a lot of links within pages that I now wish to add to this left hand menu.

At the moment if I change one aspect of it, I have to do the same on each...Ok with dreamweaver that is simple, but I then have to upload all pages - which is my problem on 56k

I'm looking ofr a sort of template that I can place in the menu area where I change just one file and upload that and changes are shown on all pages.

I don't want a template, as I've heard they can be quite difficult plus I don't want to do a major re-design of all the site.

Can i have one file...say php that will sit where the left hand menu is for my purpose?

Ian

 

i do this with server-side-includes, but most people do it with php.

If you want to check out ssi, search the forums and find the topic i started about it. Every time I want to redeisgn the entire layout, I can do so by modifiying a file that is read before loading each page.

 

The second alternative to SSI is frames

 

Instead of:

I don't want a template,

I meant to say:

I don't want frames.

Will look at using php.

Ian

 

frames or a special divider thing maybe

 

It's late now, but had you used css for layout instead of tables, you could modify the stylesheet and be done with it. It would be worthwhile to refactor once you can set aside the time. Lower maintenance and alteration costs would pay for the rewrite.

cheers,

gary