Want new SSI Menu to look like my current Frames Menu

smw51 · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

My site http://www.ravencues.com/ was built with Frames. Even though I rank very high in relevant Google searches (custom cues, custom pool cues, pool cues etc) and it has a PR of 5, I think I can do better by losing the Frames. I want to switch to a SSI menu. That seems to make the most sense, but I donâ€™t have experience with SSI. Iâ€™m trying to keep my regular html pages, with my tables, and just include the â€˜newâ€™ SSI menu in all of them.

I have made a test menu. Iâ€™ve read article after article on â€˜includesâ€™. My server is set up for SSI. I modified my â€˜.htaccessâ€™ file, although I donâ€™t think I had to. Iâ€™m using the .html extension but using the .shtml extension yielded the same results. I made a test directory with a few menu samples and my â€˜homeâ€™ page modified with the include statement <TR> <TD>  </TD></TR>. The â€˜new menuâ€™ shows up ( http://www.ravencues.com/test/home.html ) but it is just stuck at the top of the page. I can move it pretty much anywhere I want except where I really want it to be.

I want the new menu to look pretty much like my current Frames menu. That is I want the parsed menu to be on the left hand side of each page and stay the same size no matter what page is called. I know I have to insert the â€˜include statementâ€ into all of my pages. I might want to add a vertical scroll bar later but for no I just want it to look like a normal menu.

This is making me crazy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Crying or Very sad

Corey Bryant · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:33 pm

Check out Included Content first. SSI is not a menu or code but more of a "way".

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smw51 · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

Yes. As I understand SSI, in the limited context I want to use it in, it is a â€˜methodâ€™ of displaying information. My regular html document has the â€˜includeâ€™ code. The document I want to â€˜includeâ€™ has the menu items with no normal html tags like <html>, <body> etc. I want to position the â€˜new menuâ€™ to the left of the normal html page. That is possible isnâ€™t it?

Corey Bryant · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:09 pm

Well HTML cannot have the include code unless you are parsing the HTML as SHTML or PHP?

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smw51 · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

I am asking for help so I must say I don't know. I am working under the impression I can use the .html extension. Please see the copied info below. Iâ€™m an Apache Server if that helps.

"You don't need to use the traditional *.shtm and *.shtml filename extensions. You can ask your ISP to turn on SSIs for your entire site. Or you may be able to do it yourself without his permission by inserting a file named .htaccess in your root directory containing such lines as:
Options Includes FollowSymLinks
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm"

Corey Bryant · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:14 pm

Yes you can do this but it is not recommended because it could slow your site down and / or cause some extra load on the server. Another reason your ssitestmenu.html is parsed before it is added to your web page. You can do it - it is just not recommended. To prevent this, you might see if you can at least rename ssitestmenu.html to ssitestmenu.inc or ssitestmenu.txt. a bit more information How to Enable Server Side Includes on Your Web Server

I only asked that question because you made it sound like you had already did it.

Moving on though - when dealing with SSI, it is always better to supply your source code since server side includes are already parsed on the server before being rendered on the browser.

So I am going to guess.. First thing - in your ssitestmenu.html you have:

smw51 · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

Corey;

First of all, I want to thank you for your assistance. Second, I thought I gave enough of the code I was using but I should have given it all. You were correct about how I had structured ssitestmenu.html.

Iâ€™ve been testing the code you gave me and I have something that closely resembles what I was looking for http://www.ravencues.com/test/home.html . Essentially what I have done is just copy my previous â€˜home.htmlâ€™ into the space you provided. I renamed the include â€˜ssitestmenu.txtâ€™, and it seems to work just fine. It seems a little strange that I have <table> preceding the <body> and </table> following </body>. Did I misinterpret what you meant for me to do? I tried moving the <body></body> tags outside the â€˜newâ€™ <table></table> but the spacing got weird. I can tell Iâ€™ll probably have to change my original <table width=> statements. I can also remove the horizontal menu I had so people could navigate when the page was displayed without the frames menu.

The ssitestmenu.txt looks like this:

<style>

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<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite

('http://www.ravencues.com', 'RAVEN Custom Cues')"

style="font-size:15px;color:black;font-family:times new

roman;"><b>Bookmark Site!</b></a><br><br>

<a href="search.html" target="content"><b><font size="3"

face="times new roman" style="color: black;">Search This

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In other parts of the world and even here in the United States pool cues are sometimes referred to as billiard cues, billiards cues, pocket billiard cues, pocket billiards cues, billiards ques or billiard ques. They are really the same thing. In the US we typically distinguish the game played on a table with no pockets as either Carom Billiards or Three Cushion Billiards. Games played on tables with pockets are either pool or snooker. True billiards cues (carom or three cushion) are generally built differently than pool cues. They are often, but not always, made with threaded wooden joints. They can have overwraps and their dimensions are a bit different from pool cues. The butts tend to be stiffer and the shafts also tend to be stiff as well.
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British style snooker cues are made differently too. Besides the tip diameter generally being smaller than on a pool cue, the two pieces of the break down snooker cues are not of equal length. What we in the US would call the shaft section is longer than the shaft on an American pool cue. The butt section is much shorter than on a standard American pool cue. Point construction is what we in the U.S. typically refer to as butterfly points rather than sharp pointed spliced or inlayed points most common on US made cues. British style snooker cues also have a unique feature called a 'spade'. It is a flattened area on the butt of the cue. Snooker players now use it to always align the cue the same way and to grasp it in exactly the same spot. I would be happy to build a billiards cue for a client. The same is true with an American style snooker cue. American style snooker cues are typically just a longer, thinner, lighter versions of a hustler style pool cue. Both are somewhat different than pool cues, but their basic construction is the same. British style snooker cues are a different matter. It takes a specialized cuemaker to build one. Even though I would gladly build a billiards cue there are cuemakers who specialize in billiards cues just like I specialize in pool cues.

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<h4>Below are a few Before and After pictures of Pool Cues. The pictures of cues on the left hand side are while the unfinished cues were in production by the cuemaker. The cue pictures on the right are after the cues were finished. Pay special attention to how the finish brings out the beauty of the exotic woods.</h4>
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<td width="285">These were pictures of a few RAVEN Custom cues while the cues were being built.

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SN-00063
<a href="images/cues/waswascue56-a.jpg" target="content"><img name="custom made pool cue with snakewood and yellow heart inlays #50" src="images/cues/waswascue56-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

<td width="285">These are pictures of a few RAVEN Custom cues when the cues were completed.

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SN-00063 .................................... SOLD
<a href="cue56.html" target="content"><img name="custom pool cue with snakewood and yellow heart inlays #50" src="images/cues/cue56-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00062
<a href="images/cues/waswascue57-a.jpg" target="content"><img name="custom made cocobolo and maple pool cue #58" src="images/cues/waswascue57-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00062 .................................... SOLD
<a href="cue57.html" target="content"><img name="custom made cocobolo and maple pool cue #58" src="images/cues/cue57-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00056
<a href="images/cues/wascue49aa.jpg" target="content"><img name="custom made cocobolo hustler pool cue #60" src="images/cues/wascue49aa.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00056 .................................... SOLD
<a href="cue49.html" target="content"><img name="custom pool cue with ivory inlays #50" src="images/cues/cue49-e.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00058
<a href="images/cues/wascue59-a.jpg" target="content"><img name="custom made cocobolo hustler pool cue #60" src="images/cues/wascue59-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00058 .................................... SOLD
<a href="cue59.html" target="content"><img name="custom made cocobolo sneaky pete billiard cue #60" src="images/cues/cue59-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00060
<a href="images/cues/wascue58-a.jpg" target="content"><img name="custom made billiards cue # 59" src="images/cues/wascue58-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00060 .................................... SOLD
<a href="cue58.html" target="content"><img name="custom made pocket billiards cue # 59" src="images/cues/cue58-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00061
<a href="images/cues/wascue63-a.jpg" target="content"><img name="custom made birdseye maple cocobolo jump break cue # 64" src="images/cues/wascue63-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00061 .................................... SOLD
<a href="cue63.html" target="content"><img name="custom jump break cue 64" src="images/cues/cue63-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00051
<a href="images/cues/wascue52-a.jpg" target="content"><img name="custom cue # 53 3/8-10 black phenolic butt cap and joint" src="images/cues/wascue52-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00051 ..................................... SOLD
<a href="cue52.html" target="content"><img name="custom cue # 53 3/8-10 black phenolic butt cap and joint" src="images/cues/cue52-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00046
<a href="images/cues/wascue42-a.jpg" target="content"><img name="custom cue # 43 with ebony ivory yellow heart burl bloody basin jasper" src="images/cues/wascue42-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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SN-00046 .................................... Available
<a href="cue42.html" target="content"><img name="cue 52" src="images/cues/cue42-a.jpg" width="285"></a>

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Corey Bryant · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:15 pm

Yes at some point you misread what I said. You said your code is