Thanks Tom, unfortunetly, those pages were done via AOLPRESS when i had the site setup using frames and a nav links in its own frame that always displayed. Now that i converted the main links over to VSD without frames it would be a nightmare to change about 1000 different pages to have a nav bar, there is no way i can covert them all to VSD. Also, with over 20,000 images i do not want VSD to make copies of the images and then try to upload the ENTIRE site...

Is there a batch way to add a few navigation links to over 1000 HTML pages?

Hiya George,

To do what you're wanting to do wouldn't be too difficult if you have experience with find/replace within any kind of editor be it just a text editor (not a MS product unless it's just plain Notepad) or in an HTML Editor.

You would first need to create your new menu of course, whatever type you plan to make so that it's completely finished. Test it on a page so you know exactly how to install it into the page.
Once you know how to put it where you want it etc. Then it's a matter of just doing a Search & Replace which there are some programs which will do multiple pages at the same time. I'm unfortunately not sure which ones they are at the moment, but I would think someone else will know, or that a Google search for "mass find replace" would find something suitable.

With that many pages, you might find it more beneficial to use a PHP include or a Server Side Include setup so that you can alter just one page for the menu and it will update all pages. This would give you much more control over your menu and a lot less work later if you decide to add things to your menu or change a name or link etc. Especially if you reference anything outside of your site that could end up going offline at some time in the future creating a dead link.

You could then just do a mass find/replace and just replace with nothing at all which would sufficiently remove whatever you have in the find box. You may need to do a find/replace for sections of the menu at a time as I don't know how much text a program will allow you to input into the find or replace.

Just some food for thought.

I'm pretty new to website design. I am open to any ideas or comments.

http://immautoservice.com

Thanks!

Hello there, David,
Nice and clean looking site. I would be inclined to put a greater line-height, for instance on the staff information page... and also to line up the text all to the left to avoid ragged edges on both sides of the text block.
But on the whole... very nice.

Thank you Janys!

I will make the changes as you suggest.

-Dave

Great site David, you make me want to live in AZ and get my car repaired by you Very nicely done site and lots of great info on it. Well done

Thanks Jo Ann (Wolverana?)

I just finished changing most of the pages. Boy do they look a lot better. I'm glad I can see some of the sites you guys do. I'm pretty impressed. ( I don't know how you do them yet, but I'm trying to learn). I really impressed with how nice and helpful you are. Coffee Cup must be a very nice company to have so many nice people working there.

Take care
-Dave

David... here comes the funny part... a lot of us (including myself) are just voluntary forum helpers! But that just goes to show how nice CoffeeCup has always treated us as customers for us to feel this way about them and their software! Don't be fooled by my title!

oh my Janys, I just noticed that I got a title change LOL, wonder how long it's been there or how long it would have taken me if someone hadn't mentioned titles and I looked out of habit at mine LOL.

http://wolverana.com/myimages/woohoo.gif

nice site, works well.
I noticed that this internal URL takes for eeeever to load..
<a href="http://www.bbb.org/central-northern-western-arizona/business-reviews/auto-repairing-foreign/imm-inc-in-tempe-az-3008514/" target= "_blank" >

I would make the map bigger.