Hi, I am about to design few more sites for both revenue and hobby stuff. My question is: is it better to begin with dynamic (PHP) scripts or should I just stick to my little HTML knowledge and customise some oswd.org designs... Well I know it depends on what purpose I want to use the sites for, but what if I simply cant guess whether the project will be successful or not??? I've got coulpe of free scripts running out there like Bitweaver or Xoops, but one definitely is limited with them while customising... What do you think? I thought today is "JUST DYNAMIC" sites out there, but when I look around a lot of static sites are doing revenue from AdSense I think. Is that rigth?
It's just a matter of scalability. If you fancy manually updating each and every individual html file you own in 12 months time because say, you got banned form AdSense and you replace them with YPN, then good luck to you. Even for small stuff I'd now go CMS. CMS Made Simple, TextPattern etc. are all great free tools that can help you out.
Hey man, I didn't get banned from AdSense yet... I've just startet with it and I definitelly wont make "made for adsense" sites. The point is I can HTML but no PHP so I find the scripts just too bad to customise... Well as I see it, I am gonna dive in PHP/MySQL a little, another project, another fork, hehhh!
You don't need PHP/MySQL skills for most CMSes out there. If you can open a config file and edit and upload it, you're good to go.
well, I would suggest using any CMS, and always making a dynamic site, becuase its scalable, and if you have good content, then you will have good traffic, and later at some point it may be difficult for you to manage it if it was static, I am saying this becuase I have had experience, and now almost all of my websites are dynamic.. cheers
Well, I would preffer dynamic as well... the problem is I can not code and it seemed to me that there are still many new static pages being created so I was curious to ask
Dynamic would be better, but if your sites are simple, then HTML will be fine and you actually have more control over your content right off the bat.. for example, joomla leaves out h1's and p's, and the URL's are horrible right out of the box (though you can get any of the URL's to appear as yousite.com/xxxxx.htm with extensions).
You can also ease your work with php's INCLUDE command, if using a CMS is not a comfortable option. That way, you can edit the header, footer, stylesheet, common javascripts, ads in header and footer area by editting 1 single file only. Bye
If you start with static HTML you can always add PHP into it later since PHP is an embedded language.