I'd like to know if "page includes" are still the way to go or if they have been replaced by something new and exciting. I used to use Front page and rather liked using page includes for things like headers/footers and/or other text that repeated throughout my site. I downloaded a copy of Microsofts Expressions and I can't seem to locate the WEB COMPONENT>>INCLUDED CONTENT>>PAGE feature that I used to use in FP 2002. Thanks P.S. Does using PI's have any effect on SEO? Just curious.
You'd rather code the site yourself I have little faith in FrontPage. Dreamweaver seems to use CSS to build pages, though. Server Side Includes, or page includes, as you call them, still exist and are perhaps the only thing to include a single file content in multiple pages. Includes don't do anything to SEO, because bots, just as users, see already built HTML pages. All you add with includes is file requests, so you'd rather stick to the minimum amount of includes.