Question
Kevin from VA. writes:
" What is SSI  " ?

Answer
10/11/99

SSI stands for Server Side Include. Server Side Includes are instructions within web pages that cause the server to insert a file or other information into an HTML document.

One of the main advantages of using Server Side Includes is that they allow you to update a web site or make site-wide changes to it without having to work on every single page of your site.

For example, let's say that you have a web site that contains 500 pages (HTML documents), and that you wish to change it's navigation site-wide. In order to accomplish this task, without SSI, you would have to load every single page and make the necessary changes, or you could use SSI and update the entire site by just loading one page and making the necessary changes to that page.

As you can see, SSI can save you lots of time. Time you can use to worry about other important things such as content for your site.