SSI = "server side includes" or "server parsed HTML"
I'm just learning about this for the first time (April 2005) from a course at LVS Online.

"SSI can be very useful for sites that have content which is identical on a number of pages such as a header, a footer, or a table of links. SSI is particularly helpful when this content needs frequent updating site-wide, since the information can be changed on the entire site by editing one file. SSI also has a number of other uses but we'll get to that in a bit." [from intro at Vortex]

Quick Links for this page:

• Information, instructions, tutorials
• Resources (scripts, commands, includes, things you can use without creating them)

Information, instructions, tutorials

Using Includes in a webpage: A good plain-speak explanation of SSI. 04/03/05

Vortex:

• The site starts with a brief Intro to SSI and a test file to see if your ISP handles SSI.
• On Page 2 of the site you'll get to their SSI Tutorial (good one).
• Page 3 moves on to Further uses for Server Side Includes
• Environment Variables 04/02/05

SSI for The Rest of Us: "I don't care if you desire a little trivial coolness or need a non-trivial solution, I'm going to try to get you going with SSI by the time you're done reading this page. You may still have to contact your ISP, either directly or by consulting their FAQ ("Frequently Asinine Questions"). For that, you are on your own. Well, I'll talk to them for you if you pay me... " 04/02/05

Apache Tutorial: Intro to SSI: "In this article, I'll talk about configuring your server to permit SSI, and introduce some basic SSI techniques for adding dynamic content to your existing HTML pages. In the latter part of the article, we'll talk about some of the somewhat more advanced things that can be done with SSI, such as conditional statements in your SSI directives." 04/02/05

SSI TUTORIALS & REFERENCE PAGES: At BigNoseBird ~ "A collection of information on SSI that you will surely want to bookmark this page for." 04/02/05

SSI Syntax: From WDVL (Web Developers Virtual Library). Very good information and clear instructions here. 04/02/05

Advanced SSI instructions with a list of some more 'includes', from NCSA development team. 04/02/05

Read about the EXEC command. 04/11/05

More on XSSI. 04/11/05

XSSI articles and examples. 04/11/05

Resources

TAG GENERATOR for 'Includes' code: An easy way to make sure you get the correct syntax. 04/03/05

Graphical Counter: A counter that uses images. 04/11/05

Text Counter: A counter that writes text numbers to your page. 04/11/05

calendar.cgi: A simple calendar. 04/11/05

calprog.cgi: Another calendar. 04/11/05

CGI Scripts and Programs at nms (Source Forge). 04/11/05

The Perl Archive. Tip: put "SSI" (no quotes) into their search box. 04/11/05