<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/67889c0c-ce65-4704-97c0-ec74a92e4e79/5FCE921E-416C-4FBB-8EEF-47A88E9D357F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml" href="http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">bignosebird.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml"><FONT face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,helvetica"> <FONT color="#ff0000" size="+1"><B>WHAT IS SSI?</B></FONT> You may have noticed as you browse this site, that our pages end with the <I>shtml</I> extension instead of the more familiar <I>html</I> or <I>htm</I>. This is because we use Server Side Includes (SSI). Used properly, the SSI can help make your pages more responsive and can even help make maintaining your site an easier task. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml">SSI also seems to be one of the better kept secrets around. In any web related book, they seem to get about 1 page for every 200 pages on CGI and FORMS.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#ffffcc"><tr><TD bgcolor="#99ccff"><FONT face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,helvetica" color="#660000" size="3"> <CENTER> <B>THE SSI TUTORIALS & REFERENCE PAGES</B> </CENTER> </FONT> <FONT face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,helvetica"> Here they are, a collection of information on SSI that you will surely want to bookmark this page for. </FONT> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://bignosebird.com/sdocs/perform.shtml"><B>Performance Considerations</B></A>. Nothing good in life is free (usually), and so it is the same for SSI. Here is some food for thought on server performance. <P> </P></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://bignosebird.com/sdocs/include.shtml"><B>The INCLUDE Directive</B></A>. Discover how to make your pages very simple to maintain. Use this directive to merge text files in with your pages. Great for those side bar type menus. <P> </P></LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5FCE921E-416C-4FBB-8EEF-47A88E9D357F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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