Hi guys

I need to know how one can manage a static HTML sites with alot of pages without the use of php/asp and cms.

I've thought of iFrames and server side includes. But other options?

Is it possible to create top horizontal drop down menus, left side menus and footer links via javascript/css and just provide a call function at the said location, so that any link updates I just need to update on the javascript/css file and not editing through tonnes of pages?

Can provide some guide/links for me to read up as well? Googling for so many things all over the place really leaves me

Thanks.

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This post has been edited by happy4ever: Dec 12 2010, 07:49 PM

i dont quite grasp what seanie is trying to say lol

its a client's security policy of not having any CMS running and prefer all to be in HTML.

i'm totally off with javascript, and i know it can be done with javascript controlling the menu which loads the iframes, its just that i basically suck in javascript, lol

so far not successful in getting as sample template with basic iframes for menu, footer, side navi. Heck, even my top menu seems to load another new page whenever i a href target on the iframe.

well, thats a new one!

Do a CMS, export it as static HTML, deliver.
But at this time, doing a CMS would mean double the work and duration. sigh.

i've got most of the iframes up, only problem is how to get the menu to highlight which iframe i loaded. any ideas?

And another problem is the darn IE6/7/8 compatibility....lol, but thats another headache.

but the final delivery isn't in PHP, but html.

i've tried seanie's advice, and m looking at this: http://www.blogsdna.com/35/top-6-freeware-...ls-software.htm
which the purpose is to run a CMS and port these out into static sites using mirroring tools.

wget is too command prompt base, hard to use. I tried pagenest on SSI site, not too good. Lots of files/css/js not grabbed out.
Best is IE's .mht, but cant extract its files out.

Thats the hard part. My javascript isn't good, and to use iframes, it would be like having 4 to 5 iframes within a site. Top menu, left menu, right menu and footer, and the top menu need to be highlighted when the main site is loaded. The javascript to manage these just gives me a headache

I believe in seanie's post. To manage a static site needs to be in a CMS environment and port out to static format for the client. In house production ought to be independant of client deliverables. Problem here is the exporting part. Need to export the files in CMS to static aint easy.

but how do i export them into static files at the client's end, who do not run php?

haha that might just work, ampbuster, but looks complicated.

What i have found out that if SSI/PHP/ASP cannot be used, i can resort to simple javascript write.

Like placing a call function in the main site, and the .js file just document.write the html codes which acts like a seperate menu file.
No complicated javascript codes lol.

seanie, wget and most mirroring tools has their own downside. Alot of post-export processing need to be done to ensure the links/css/javascript work. Nowadays, most uses jquery and ajax effects, so it could be problematic.