Best way to deal with Simi-Static text

[tazem]

What is the best was to deal with simi-static text areas? I would like to have the first header and the footer sections the same on every page ( about 500 or so). I would also like the ability to change these from time to time. I REALLY don't want to do this 500 plus times.

I haven't used include files in HTML/CSS before. Does this work the same as in higher level programming?

Thanks,
tazem

[jscheuer1]

I hope you mean semi-static. Anyways, if you have a server side language available to you, that is the way to go for that sort of thing. Neither css nor HTML provide anything for that. Javascript can, sort of, but is unreliable.

Server side languages like asp/VBasic - PHP and the like provide fairly easy ways to include a block of HTML code on many pages via includes. This varies slightly depending upon the language used.

[tazem]

That helps a lot. I've been away from this, designing, for quite some time and am just re-learning everything. And yes I did mean semi-.

Thanks
Tazem