I am a newbie.
I want to build a side-bar navigation that is scripted so that I can enlarge the side navigation by just going to one file and not having to update every page on the site.
Can you help me?
Please keep it simple, I ain't to bright !

Use ASP or PHP include files

Server Side Include (SSI) are your way to go

Haha as mentioned before in other threads recently, this topic has been VERY "hot" - as in there have been mant posts on it. I suggest putting the navigation html/css code that you want to go on every page inside a file, lets say "nav.php" then put whereever you want the navigation code to go, on the other pages the following:

<?php
include 'nav.php'
?>

See here for more info: http://us2.php.net/include/

Matt

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/coding...all-pages.html
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/html-f...ple-pages.html
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/html-f...tml#post707254

A php include (as seen in 170 designs) is the most common way and is what I'd recommend.

ASP can be used though

I prefer PHP includes though

Thank you for your help. This is a great forum !