In the past, if you wanted to include the contents of one HTML file in another using FrontPage, you had two choices. The FrontPage "Included Content" component is easy to use and you can see your page in the editor and preview windows as it is going to look in a browser - the included contents are visible. Unfortunately, most webmasters prefer the "server-side" include method where a special command is required in HTML (e.g ). While this can be entered in the HTML window of FrontPage, the included content is not shown in the FrontPage Editor or Preview windows.
Now you can have the benefits of server-side includes and still see in FrontPage how your page will look when published. The Server-Side Include Add-in by Swanfield (SSIbot) is a component for FrontPage that acts like a FrontPage include while you are editing the page, but puts a server-side include in the page, used when the page is browsed. In addition, it controls the formatting of the include command and only allows valid commands to be inserted.
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