I use the same scenario. The header and footer of every page is built
from an include file. I modify one file and I can change the header and
footer of every page on the entire site.

This is one of those strategies a lot of web developers do not take
advantage of. Every platform has some form of Server Side include. I
would look into implementing this type of strategy.

It make a bit time up front to convert all your pages to take advantage
of server side includes, but the amount of time you will save in the end
will make up for it. I don't have to edit all my pages to add the Smart
Tag parsing meta tag, I only have to modify one file.

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Mike Carlson
domitianx(at)domitianx.com
http://www.domitianx.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of rudy
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 11:45 AM
To: Noteworthy Web Designs; HWG Techniques
Subject: Re: smart tags


> What a pain it would be to add the tag they mentioned
> to all my pages (hundreds and hundreds!) Is it really necessary?

hi karen

well, it couldn't hurt    ;o)

on my site, it goes into the meta.txt file that gets included into every
page via server side includes, so it's no biggie...

the tag looks like this --

  <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">

okay wait a sec, is it really gonna stop anything?

will it just be ignored, like the robots disallow?

fer sure the other smart-tag-like link hijacking systems out there are
not going to obey it...


rudy
http://rudy.ca/

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