Is SSI allowed?
what about cgi?

which plan are you on at geocities?  for 7.95/month you can go with the standard lunarpages plan and have a ton of toys to play with.
 
 [ April 02, 2003, 08:50 AM: Message edited by: charles g ]

If I'm understanding you correctly, what you are looking for is Cascading Style Sheets.  I'm just starting to look into these now, so I don't know a ton about them, but I'm sure our good friend Mr. Google will be able to help.  At least now you know what to look for.

what do you mean by external html?  

css does work with geocities' free accounts though.

here's a good css resource:  http://glish.com/css/

got it.  in that case there's nothing you can do similar to a php include on a free geocities account.

The differences between lunarpages and ANY free webhosts are massive.

There are hundreds of advantages, I would never host my site on a free server anymore  

ok, so back to css and ssi now shall we?  

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is nice but it is more for controling things like fonts, colors, certain spacings, and things of that nature.

SSI (Server Side Include's) are great as well, and can control anything that you can do with normal html.

so, liquid, think about what you need. If you're going to changing the format of the site a month down the line, than ssi will be probably be the way to go. If you just want to change the color scheme of the site from red to blue and back again a week later, CSS should do the trick. and now the doozy, really, you might want to look into CSS regardless because it is very nice to work with, and you can do some nifty things with it. So even if you end up using SSI, you should probably still check out CSS.

now decide what you think you need, and get back to us on it and we'll help you  

-Brian