Alan Coleman's

I’m currently working on a redesign for Esher Athletic Football Club, who are managed by a collegue at work.

The current site is a bit old hat in the late 90s style of things, so I’ll be bringing an up to date web 2.0 look to things with a dynmic PHP driven presence.

The club badge was first for an overhaul, which involved a reworking of the origional design that was hand drawn. Using Illustrator to create a vector graphic version, the aim is to respect the identity of the origional but give it a more professional feel.

Recently I’ve been using PHP include function to present a common menu to a set of pages. As you’d expect it all works fine, the only problem being that the user can’t tell what page is currently being browsed from looking at the navigation.

After posting a message on the Textdrive forum, ruiling from the US sent me a link to this tutorial on Alistapart:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/keepingcurrent/

This uses the same include function but with a unique page identifier that is read by the menu.

So easy even I could understand it.