I really appreciate watching this
thread evolve w/ great ideas. Kudos to everyone!
The OS is definitely Linux and I believe the web servers are Apache. The hosting company, and this is *not* a plug, is 1and1.com. So maybe someone knows differently.
I come from an extensive background and years of
Java experience. Hence repeating code is *against* my creed. I've done webapps w/ jsp/ajax/js/Struts for app servers like
Tomcat, Weblogic & WebSphere at my 9-5 job.
But w/ doing this site w/out jsp and only html/css/js and php is daunting only because I've only done maybe 10-20 of true php code.
I like the idea of the Ajax (via JQuery, which I've never heard of) retrieving the center part of the site from the server. If I understand the Poster of this concept, I would have an index.html that shows the typical header of a website and left side navigation menu. For each menu item attach javascript function call to update menu item id values and use JQuery to retieve menu_item_1_snipit_code.html, menu_item_2_snipit_code.html, etc.
I can appreciate the need to learn php but might pass if the above works.
I'm not a big fan of SSI just b/c of the syntax read during my limited research. Maybe I've just read the wrong sites for it. PHP seems a more natural solution versus SSI due to the industry "standards".
Thanks,Jim