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kimberh
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Posted: 2005-Jul-18 21:41
Hello, I need help. Due to a change in my company for private owned to corporations, I have to make several changes in a very huge web site. The whole web site is done in FrontPage using HTML and External JavaScript. I do not use FrontPage extension because I prefer to FTP in changes after saving.
Now I have given you some understanding of the situations can someone tell me if there is a way as I rebuild this site that I can make sections so that I can do site wide changes easy and fast so if I get stuck again having to make major changes that I can do them all at once instead of pulling each page to make the same changes.
I was thinking using more External JavaScript but heard search engines do not read them well. Any thoughts?
Thank you advice for any help
Kimber
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bhartzer
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Posted: 2005-Jul-18 21:59
To make "site wide" changes easily, you'll want to use Includes--you update one page (like the site's navigation) and it will be changed on every page of the site where you have the Include.
You can use an external javscript file, but that generally won't be indexed by the search engines.
Keep in mind that if a site has been using FrontPage Extensions and you start using FTP to FTP the files you can very easily corrupt the whole website. (Trust me, I've seen it done before to sites and it's not a pretty sight.) If a previous user has been using FrontPage and the FrontPage extensions, then don't use FTP.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2005-Jul-18 22:03
You either need to use the FrontPage "Shared Borders" facility, or investigate the use of SSI or PHP or ASP "includes".
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kimberh
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Posted: 2005-Jul-18 23:11
I just looked up Shared Borders on google and that looks like it be perfect. Do they work like frames? I kind of wanted section I could be google adsense ads in to test different colors to see what would work best.
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kimberh
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Posted: 2005-Jul-18 23:13
All I really want to put in External Javascript is google ads and navigation. I want to change all the google ads colors once a month. Would google ads matter to search engines are far as indexing?
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bhartzer
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Posted: 2005-Jul-18 23:25
All I really want to put in External Javascript is google ads and navigation
Then that's what you should do--use external javascript. I wouldn't worry about shared borders.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2005-Jul-18 23:47
You don't need javascript for the navigation - you really need to make the navigation code in pure HTML. After that you can use CSS to style the elements and JS to control movement of text on screen for dynamic navigation. The actual links should be done in normal HTML (not written out by javascript) if you want the search engines to be able to follow them.
If you want to be able to change colours easily, then that is a job for CSS - the code for the whole site might only be 20 lines long, and goes in an external file.
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kimberh
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Posted: 2005-Jul-19 10:25
>>> All I really want to put in External Javascript is google ads and navigation <<<<
>>> Then that's what you should do--use external javascript. I wouldn't worry about shared borders<<<
Thank you, I need to hear that from someone say. I couldn’t figure out what the big deal with use external javascript when all I really want to do is update google Adsense ads to different colors such as orange for Halloween and red for Christmas.
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kimberh
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Posted: 2005-Jul-19 10:30
>> You don't need javascript for the navigation - you really need to make the navigation code in pure HTML. After that you can use CSS to style the elements and JS to control movement of text on screen for dynamic navigation <<<
I have no idea how to do CSS. I can type HTML codes freehand and have a External Javascript template a friend made me but after that I am totally lost. Now ask me about Corel Draw, DPI and Vectored Artwork and I am your girl but the web page part of my site I stumble through. I have been playing with the shared border this morning and like the look. I can figure out how to make them but not how to edit only one section to make site wide changes.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2005-Jul-19 12:13
CSS, when used for styling, basically replaces all of the <font> tags with some simple style information. However, the styling goes in an external file.
The styling says how to show a paragraph, a list item, a heading, etc. You don't need a tag on every paragraph, you have one style block that says how every paragraph on every page of the site is going to be styled.
e.g. p {font-size: 150%; color: #FF00FF;}
If you have a special paragraph at the bottom of your page as a footer, and you want that in a different colour and size, then you would apply a "class" to that paragraph and add another line to your style sheet.
<p class="footer">CopyRight The Widget Corp. 2005</p>
with CSS:
p.footer {font-size: 75%; color: FF0000; font-weight: bold;}
Using CSS can cut your HTML page size down, apply a consistent style to every page of your site, and make updating of content a whole lot easier as the content will style itself as long as you use the right heading, paragraph, list, table, and form tags around that content, along with the right class names for it (you decide what the class names are and how they are styled).
You need to state a style for each of these elements: body, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, ul, ol, li, table, tr, td, img, form, input, textarea, and maybe a few others (you only need to declare a style for elements that you actually use). You also need to declare a style for each of your classes.
Basic CSS can be learned in a few days. Re-coding your pages can take a long time, but the reward is worth it.
CSS can also be used for positioning. That is advanced stuff, and can be left alone for now. Merely scrapping all your <font> tags and using CSS for styling is a very good start.
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