Its a Big Big Mistake !

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Hi,

Am supervising a site, which should be scalable by linkwise...

For example ... if there are 5 links right now, it might scale upto 15 links next year, this i didn't know when i took the project, but right now i understood, its scaling / extending in the future. there are about 300 odd pages in the site..

now, i really understand the XML driven links, which can be updated / scaled / extended from a single file even for a single link which adds thereafter...

Now, i need someone point me in the right direction ... how i can accomplish this.

The Scenario is Like this, the so called scalable menu / link is sitting here right there in a cell, the code as follows:
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<td width="11%"><div align="right"><a href="../products/critical-care/index.htm"><img src="images/arrow_right.jpg" alt="" width="4" height="8" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td width="89%"><div align="left"><a href="../products/critical-care/index.htm" class="productlinks">Critical Care </a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right"><a href="../products/diagnostics/index.htm"><img src="images/arrow_right.jpg" alt="" width="4" height="8" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td><div align="left"><a href="../products/diagnostics/index.htm" class="productlinks">Diagnostics</a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right"><a href="../products/imaging/index.htm"><img src="images/arrow_right.jpg" alt="" width="4" height="8" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td><div align="left"><a href="../products/imaging/index.htm" class="productlinks">Imaging</a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right"><a href="../products/renal-care/index.htm"><img src="images/arrow_right.jpg" alt="" width="4" height="8" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td><div align="left"><a href="../products/renal-care/index.htm" class="productlinks">Renal Care </a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right"><a href="../products/surgical-technologies/index.htm"><img src="images/arrow_right.jpg" alt="" width="4" height="8" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td><div align="left"><a href="../products/surgical-technologies/index.htm" class="productlinks">Surgical Technologies </a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right"><a href="../products/trivitech/index.htm"><img src="images/arrow_right.jpg" alt="" width="4" height="8" border="0" /></a></div></td>

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Instead of this all long crap, why i can't introduce a dynamic link set which can be updated / added with more links whenever neccessary with a single dynamic XML file ..... ?

Can someone point me in the right direction ?

Thanks in advance ...!
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[sticks464]

The simply way to do this is with server side includes (http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp).
See link and also google search. Using this method, when you add a link to the menu it will update all pages that have the menu.

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Wait, i got a doubt, assume am using CS3 Dreamweaver, with this so called latest addition of Spry Framework in CS3 ... can i accomplish what am intend to do ...?

Thanks in advance!
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[sticks464]

I haven't tried the new CS3 yet. If that works, fine. Irregardless it doesn't take the place of includes. Whichever you use it will/should enable you to make one change and update all your pages.