That post by scrnews more or less is the complete tutorial! Use PHP includes also for menu, footer, perhaps part of the header, it will save you many hours of search and replace and uploading, as when in the future you want to add a menu item etc you only need to change one file instead of 1000. Just like using one CSS file instead of styles in every file. For now, just make sure your hosting supports PHP, and that your filenames end in php rather than htm, and read a little more about includes - the rest can wait. I speak from experience having setup a big site with straight HTML and regretted it afterwards - you will end up with PHP, when you get fed up of making manual changes, so now is the best time to start.
Why don't you save yourself A LOT OF TIME, by paying someone to customize a blog template for you that will look like a page. Then yall you have to do it put in the content material instead of making each page.
Use php includes. You can still make an html/xhtml site, just rename your pages to .php Contact me via pm for more info if you need it.
Thanks!! Im doing it!! I have 12 spots all over every page..... I have only the 3 adsence ad units active now.....thanks everyone!!
Yah includes is the best, i learned thehard way when i was a starter i made hundrets of pages with ad code in them and had to mod every page time comsumming and annoying. You can take a html page and brake it down in to sections.. header footer menu ads1 ads2 etc. html pages can be saved as .php and will work just fine and then you can use php includes.