Chapter 11
Library Items and Server-Side Includes
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Chapter 11 Overview
Just about every Web site in existence includes elements that are used more than once throughout the site. Common examples of reusable elements are navigational links, graphics, a company's logo, and a copyright statement. Besides Dreamweaver's templates, library items and server-side includes (SSIs) make building and maintaining a Web site much easier by allowing you to store reusable elements in a single "master" location, then allowing Dreamweaver or the server to insert them on every page on which they should appear. As you learned with templates (Chapter 10), this approach enables you to make an update in one place and have that update appear throughout the site, rather than making manual changes on each affected page.
Below is a more detailed overview of what's covered in this chapter:
- Library Items
- Server-Side Includes (SSIs)
- Comparing Library Items and Server-Side Includes (including their advantages and limitations)
- Creating, Renaming, Editing, Inserting, and Deleting Library Items
- Creating, Editing, Inserting, and Deleting SSIs