~Shinta

In the end it's all for the best. I write my site in XHTML 1.1 and wouldn't ever write it in html 4. Also you don't need to write a bar tag like <br /> you can just write <br></br>, but it is slow and stuff... Also, html is based off of sgml which is a little dorkyand messy to me.

The annoying part is the sidebar on the right with all the links on them. If you have big problems get Firefox with Adblock.

I'm not sure, but I think SGML can use CSS as well. I think you were trying to use xml in the middle of your html document... I don't think html supports xml data islands or anything...

Marquee is old and not used anymore. I think you can use css instead though, and it is in the css tutorial I think.

If it is that hard then just get a wordpress or something.

Aha... I think what you are looking for is SSI, or Server Side Includes. Server side includes include a text file from one location in the directory into a server parsed page before it is sent to your browser (I think that is how it works...). You do that by using this code:

<!--#include file="filename.html"-->

The catch is you need ssi enabled on your page. Ask your webhost if it is enabled and/or if it is allowed. If your host runs on Linux or Apache it should allow you to acccess the .htaccess file. If you can you add this code:

AddType text/html .shtmlAddHandler server-parsed .htmlAddHandler server-parsed .shtmlOptions Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

I hope this works for you...

I hate to be Mr. Evil, but tables aren't really meant for layouts as far as I know. Tables are used for tabular data not to place data in a page. Use css for that =).