A more detailed look at SSI can be found at BigNoseBird.com.

Calls to SSI are done with one simple line in your HTML that looks something like this:

This particular line will tell RedRival's server to include the local time at that particular place in your HTML. Here is a working example of that code:

The server will send the full HTML including everything called by SSI to the site viewer. The viewer will not see the actual SSI call line if they view the source of the page.

For example, if you view the source of this webpage, you will not be able to see that there were at least six SSI calls used.

One noticeable method of using an SSI is the code you can use to include a voluntary RR banner ad on your site.

For example, the Site Menu on the left side of every page on this site is actually a snippet of HTML code put in a separate file, and called in using an SSI. That way, if we add a page to the site, we go in and change that one snippet of code, and it automatically changes on every page. Convenience without resorting to frames!

The code you would use to include text or HTML would look like this:

In the file menu.html in the example above, you should have a snippet of HTML code that contains only the code necessary to make the menu bar on your site, if that's what you're using it for. In virtual=, you can specify where the file is located in the same way as if it were in an href=, i.e. "../directory/menu.html" or "/username/directory/menu.html".

YOU CANNOT call code that is placed on a server other than RedRival. In other words, virtual="http://www.anothersite.com/menu.html" won't work!

The uses of this SSI "include" call are limited only to your imagination.