I have hand built a thousand or so pages and each page has a menu that links to all the other pages in the website. I am curious what others use to edit there menus more easily. I am tired of when I make a change I have to go through the whole website and copy the menu to each .html . thanks for the suggestions in advance.
using i dreamwaever u can do find replace (pm me your sample code so i can give you exact shortcut) or use php include (in php files only)
I never thought about using dreamweaver! In loading my pages up with dreamweaver will it alter my code with any crappy code? Also would it take much to change all my pages over to php? Also 1 more ? will php includes hurt my SEO?
You don´t have to change all your pages over to php. You can do php includes on html pages too. And no, php include don´t hurt your SEO at all. With the amount of pages you have, the only sensible thing to do is to make a menu-html that contains your menu and do a php include on all your pages. This way you only have to edit one file, menu.html, to update your site´s menu. If php includes don't work on your .html pages you can add a rule to your .htaccess file to tell your server to make php includes work. It's very easy to do. You can also find mass find and replace text editors like Text Workbench that do a good job.
On the first line of your .htaccess, write: AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html Code (markup):