Just a hint for those who might still be coding static html pages - use PHP includes!

They allow you to put often used pieces of code into a seperate file which you include on the page, that means you only have to edit one file to make changes.

Thanks, good idea.
I need to go back and do this to my older sites.

How much trouble would it be to convert old sites to use includes?

not too much sam, how many pages are there on the sites?
Generally you can do a find and replace on all the pages so it will be automatic, in which case it will take a matter of seconds

And this is how you do the include file:

<?php include("menu.inc"); ?>

where menu.inc is the file containing your menu

using PSPad (a free text editor) you can open all the files and do a multi file search and replace

so search for your header and replace with

include("header.php");

and your footer with

include("footer.php");

it sounds good and does it means we donot have to use any programme to write PHP?
the coding of PHP is on notepad?