Making a Template
Thursday July 31, 2008
The easiest way to update all of your pages at once is to have them all working off of the same template. When you want to change the look of your site you only need to update these template files, not every page individually. You can create header, footer, or other template blocks using PHP includes. This can save you a lot of headaches later when updating your site.
Even if you don’t want to use your template for styling, it will save you a ton of work to create a template for your site navigation alone. Adding a page? Just update one file and every page now contains the link to your new page.
If you don’t want to overhaul your site completely, you can start with a navigation include file. Once you see how much work this saves you will be motivated to go further.
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