I am a long time user and I really enjoy the software. However,I was hoping that the new release would include CSS to allow easy site wide editing of a live site. Editing and uploading 60 or 70 pages in order to make a small site wide change is very time consuming.

Thanks,

Could you elaborate on this?

In order to use external CSS, you would have to use a link reference. This can be added to a custom header on the desired pages. then editing the external CSS file would be applied to all those pages. If you wanted to make a site-wide change to 60 to 70 pages, wouldn't you have to go into those pages to add the CSS link reference?

With SS Pro, you have the ability to create a code object and use the code new placement drop-down to put it in the head, body, or CSS section. With this ability, you can use the object Include feature to put your CSS (or script) code on only those pages you want.

Hmmm, If Site Spinner created an external CSS page based on the site's index template and then had an option like "create CSS link for this page" in the "edit page properties" it would just be a matter of uploading the entire site once. Site wide changes could be made by changing the external CSS page. Changes to individual pages are just a matter of a single upload. JMHO

I think I see your point and I agree. One of the problems I see with the new SS Pro using external CSS files is that an external file is created for every page in the project even though most of the CSS code is duplicated.

If a single project-wide external file were created containing the common CSS code and, as you stated, a way to include CSS into this file rather than the page-specific file, it would be a big time-saver.

Also, if a common file was already cached in the browser, it would not be reloaded if used by another page, thus saving load time.

Thanks for that suggestion. We agree. SiteSpinner Pro takes it a step in that direction but we hope to extend the CSS ability in future versions.