First, sorry if this is a common question. I really don't know what I'm looking for and have, thus far, been unable to find anything that really answers it.
I'm very new to web design and have come across this issue: when designing a "navigation bar" for my web page is copying and pasting the code onto every page truly the best way to go about things? Even on a small, sample web page I was playing with it became a hassle when I changed the location of one page file to go back and edit every single web page to make sure the navigation worked.
I imagine there is some way to make this process simpler, but I just do not know what it is at all. For example, maybe there is some code (java, php?) that lets me make on, common page for all navigation and every webpage just looks to that one code to load that navigation bar.
Hopefully this question makes sense as it is driving me crazy.
Thanks for all your help.