djonesavinash
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I use webs.com for hosting my site.
Webs.com provides a sidebar on each page I create. The sidebar displays recent blog bosts, recent forum activities, etc. The sidebar is automatically updated when a new blog-post or forum-post is created.
In webs.com, I can create pages by two methods -->
1. By using site-builder. Site-builder automatically creates the sidebar on right side. Pages created with this method cannot be edited by html.
2. By manually creating own html pages and uploading that to site. These pages cannot be edited with site-builder.
I use both methods and create two type of pages - one created with site-builder and other self-created.
But I want the sidebar to be available on both type of pages. So, the issue is arising with the second method.
For solving this problem, I obtained html code of sidebar from one of the pages created with site-builder and pasted that code in all pages created by html.
It worked - the sidebar is at its place and renders fine.
Everything is fine except one big problem.
The problem is that when a new blog-entry or forum-post is posted, the recent topics (blog-entry and forum-post) are not displayed on sidebar (on pages created by 2nd method). The sidebar still displays the topics which were in the code obtained.
Since I know that the sidebar code on html-pages cannot be changed every time when a new entry appears, I need to learn a computer language which can do the job automatically.
The language should be able to change to code automatically on html pages as soon as a new entry is posted OR it should be able to obtain and display recent topics from a page created with site-builder.
But I don't know that which computer language can do this job.
Finally my questions is ....... Which language can do the task?
Is JavaScript or Perl or both suitable for the task? (I asked for perl because webs.com supports Perl)
OR I have to go for server-side? If yes, then which server-side language?
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Some Details:
I have tried <iframe>. But this is not a perfect solution in this case.
Webs.com provides a sidebar on each page I create. The sidebar displays recent blog bosts, recent forum activities, etc. The sidebar is automatically updated when a new blog-post or forum-post is created.
In webs.com, I can create pages by two methods -->
1. By using site-builder. Site-builder automatically creates the sidebar on right side. Pages created with this method cannot be edited by html.
2. By manually creating own html pages and uploading that to site. These pages cannot be edited with site-builder.
I use both methods and create two type of pages - one created with site-builder and other self-created.
But I want the sidebar to be available on both type of pages. So, the issue is arising with the second method.
For solving this problem, I obtained html code of sidebar from one of the pages created with site-builder and pasted that code in all pages created by html.
It worked - the sidebar is at its place and renders fine.
Everything is fine except one big problem.
The problem is that when a new blog-entry or forum-post is posted, the recent topics (blog-entry and forum-post) are not displayed on sidebar (on pages created by 2nd method). The sidebar still displays the topics which were in the code obtained.
Since I know that the sidebar code on html-pages cannot be changed every time when a new entry appears, I need to learn a computer language which can do the job automatically.
The language should be able to change to code automatically on html pages as soon as a new entry is posted OR it should be able to obtain and display recent topics from a page created with site-builder.
But I don't know that which computer language can do this job.
Finally my questions is ....... Which language can do the task?
Is JavaScript or Perl or both suitable for the task? (I asked for perl because webs.com supports Perl)
OR I have to go for server-side? If yes, then which server-side language?
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Some Details:
I have tried <iframe>. But this is not a perfect solution in this case.