All of the different elements of your website (header, navigation, footer, content, etc.) are separate files that are assembled together to form the page you are viewing in your web browser.
For example, when you go to your website homepage in your browser, you are viewing a page called default.asp. Default.asp is a file located in the root (top) level folder of your staging site. When your browser loads default.asp, it also loads any other ASP files that default.asp calls for – the files that make up the different areas of your webpage: header, navigation, content, footer, and others. Default.asp itself does not contain any actual content of the page; it pulls together these other files to build a complete page.
These other files are loaded by the ‘container’ file (default.asp, for example) using #INCLUDE statements in the code of default.asp. If you look at the code for that page, you will see several statements that look like #INCLUDE FILE or #INCLUDE VIRTUAL – these are used to load the areas of the homepage.
#INCLUDE FILE statements reference a file that you can edit within your HTML editor. #INCLUDE VIRTUAL statements reference a file that you cannot edit within your HTML editor (these are also called innerweb files).
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