Copyright footer

I'm a volunteer with a non-profit group and I got elected to make a
web page not because I have any experience with being a webmaster but
because I'm "the only one who knows anything about computers". The
web host that we have chosen wants us to put their name and a link to
their home page at the bottom of all of our web pages.

Is there a way for me to have an external CSS with a link to an
external web site, at the bottom of each page and if I wanted to
change the information on all pages I could just change the external
CSS file?

(...hope that make sense.)

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:25:27 GMT, Your Name <email (AT) address (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm a volunteer with a non-profit group and I got elected to make a
web page not because I have any experience with being a webmaster but
because I'm "the only one who knows anything about computers".

Hee hee. That's how a lot get started. Really study to get it right,
though. Look over the FAQs for this NG,
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, and other resources like
http://www.w3schools.com or other well-recommended tutorials.

The
web host that we have chosen wants us to put their name and a link to
their home page at the bottom of all of our web pages.

Is there a way for me to have an external CSS with a link to an
external web site, at the bottom of each page and if I wanted to
change the information on all pages I could just change the external
CSS file?

(...hope that make sense.)

Sure does. Do they really require a link on every page, or just main entry
pages? "Every page" is unusual.

You would not do this with CSS. CSS is only for manipulating the
presentation of the page. A link is content, and is thus the domain of
HTML.

Your host likely runs SSI or PHP. With these, it's simple to add an
included file in your page which has the HTML for this link. Look up SSI
or preferably PHP, depending on what your host runs.

If your host runs neither, I think you should find a new host, as there
are no reasons I casn conjure up to not provide this on a web server, and
every reason to provide it to the clients.

Followups are set to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html .

In article <daqrq09378o1lc8mf89d0d22k5b95lblv6 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>,
email (AT) address (DOT) com says...

I'm a volunteer with a non-profit group and I got elected to make a
web page not because I have any experience with being a webmaster but
because I'm "the only one who knows anything about computers". The
web host that we have chosen wants us to put their name and a link to
their home page at the bottom of all of our web pages.

Is there a way for me to have an external CSS with a link to an
external web site, at the bottom of each page and if I wanted to
change the information on all pages I could just change the external
CSS file?

(...hope that make sense.)

Take a look at the way I do it on my site:
http://www.austinmetrobaseball.com

Look for footer.js in the HTML and download footer.js
here:
http://www.austinmetrobaseball.com/footer.js

I place the script tag in every page I need to show to footer.

Your Name wrote:

I'm a volunteer with a non-profit group and I got elected to make a
web page not because I have any experience with being a webmaster but
because I'm "the only one who knows anything about computers".

Starting here, rather than with MS FrontPage, sets you apart from most
who venture down this path...

The web host that we have chosen wants us to put their name and a
link to their home page at the bottom of all of our web pages.

Choose a different host?

Is there a way for me to have an external CSS with a link to an
external web site, at the bottom of each page and if I wanted to
change the information on all pages I could just change the external
CSS file?

Not with a pure CSS solution.

Javascript would be one way (see other reply), but depends on client
support. Other options are server-side includes (SSI) or PHP/ASP, both
of which depend on server support.

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

JRS: In article <daqrq09378o1lc8mf89d0d22k5b95lblv6 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, dated
Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:25:27, seen in news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.st
ylesheets, Your Name <email (AT) address (DOT) com> posted :

I'm a volunteer with a non-profit group and I got elected to make a
web page not because I have any experience with being a webmaster but
because I'm "the only one who knows anything about computers". The
web host that we have chosen wants us to put their name and a link to
their home page at the bottom of all of our web pages.

Is there a way for me to have an external CSS with a link to an
external web site, at the bottom of each page and if I wanted to
change the information on all pages I could just change the external
CSS file?

I doubt it; it could be done with a javascript include file invoked at
the foot of each page (which would not work for all readers); it could
be done by programmed action at the server, which is likely to be more
than you want to learn about (and may not be available).

Be aware that there are tools that can make systematic changes across
the whole of a file set. For example, my own pages typically include
one instance of Merlyn and two or more of merlyn.demon; if I were to
change hostname to Mercat, I could update the master copies of all pages
by, at a "MS-DOS Prompt", :-

mtr -r -c- *.htm - Merlyn = Mercat merlyn.demon = mercat.demon

where mtr invokes MiniTrue. With a -n option, it would not even ask
each time. Then,

mtr -r -o *.htm - merlyn

would list any residual instances of merlyn, case-independently.

--
© John Stockton, Surrey, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v4.00 MIME. ©
Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - FAQish topics, acronyms, & links.
I find MiniTrue useful for viewing/searching/altering files, at a DOS prompt;
free, DOS/Win/UNIX, <URL:http://www.idiotsdelight.net/minitrue/> Update hope?

in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Your Name wrote:

I'm a volunteer with a non-profit group and I got elected to make a
web page not because I have any experience with being a webmaster but
because I'm "the only one who knows anything about computers". The
web host that we have chosen wants us to put their name and a link to
their home page at the bottom of all of our web pages.

So, it is nothing about copyright, nor footer. Maybe you could have
thought some better subject... (my first reaction to subject was: no,
that is not required...)

Is there a way for me to have an external CSS with a link to an
external web site, at the bottom of each page and if I wanted to
change the information on all pages I could just change the external
CSS file?

Sure, but that is wrong way to do it. As is JavaScript stuff.

It is somewhat likely that your host has some server side tools
installed. Find out which, and learn some simple include command in that
tool. It is easier and much more likely to work as any CSS or JS
"solution". Of course, when using CSS or JS to include the thing, it
won't be shown everytime, and if that is enaugh for host, then it has no
harm either...

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Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr> <http://www.iki.fi/zwak/fonts>