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Aside from PERL and NetObjects Fusion, just about any Server-side middleware
will easily do the trick. It just depends what your web server is, and what
you have installed.
If you use Microsoft servers, you can probably use Active Server Pages
(ASP), or server includes (.shtml files).
If you use Apache servers, install PHP.
Then, all you need to do is put the name in a file, and include the file.
For example, on a Microsoft server, you could put the following in your web
page:
<title>Managing the <!--#include
virtual="/includes/servername.txt"--></title>
and put the name of your product in a servername.txt file and post it to the
/include directory. You would then need to save the page with a .asp or
.shtml file to indicate to the server that it needs to do some
pre-processing on this file.
Better, move all of your header information to include files. If you use
ASP, every single page on your site could load the same basic header
information. You could set an ASP variable in a header file loaded by every
web page on the site, and then wherever you want to use the product name,
return the ASP variable. For example, in your header file, you could set a
ProductName variable. Then, in your file, it might look like:
<p> For the <%= ProductName %>, insert...</p>
Solutions for PERL, PHP, and any of a dozen other technologies are very
similar. Pick your poison...
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