How do you manage to serve the same header/sidebar on all of your static sites?

[HisVirusness]

Server side includes.

Everything passes through one single monolithic script containing all of the boilerplate code, metadata and general plumbing of the site.  After everything runs smoothly, experimentation starts and things snowball quickly.  Before you know it, you created a custom markup and most of your "pages" are just plain text files that get interpreted into HTML upon page request.

Tale as old as time, right?

...Right?

[Adam]

I use a frameset on my homepage. It's how I initially learned to build a navigation bar and I still enjoy the way it looks today. I don't update my home page very often, though, so maintaining the navigation bar by hand isn't a big deal. Biggest drawback is that some browsers can't display frames, so I also include a link to the navigation page within the noframes tag.

For my blog, on the other hand, I use a static site generator (Hugo) to embed all the links onto every page.

[sunnyp4rk]

I'm not on Neocities, so I just use PHP header/footer layouts to get everything to be the same.