Making many pages with the same template

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Grand, Apr 12, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hello everyone,
    I'm wanting to make a site with many pages which use the same template, just with different information and some different links, and possibly some additional parts on others. I've always just made pages with Notepad++ and had to copy and paste the different information into each new document. Is there a program which can make this quicker?
     
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  2. Subikar

    Subikar Active Member

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    Yes you can do maintain a table add two field ('FldUrl', 'Fldtemplate') store the url and template name there in table while showing just fetch the data and use it from there? If you don't understand ask me again I will explain it more clearly.

    Regards,

    Subikar
     
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  3. bacanze

    bacanze Peon

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    This is where asp.net is useful, look into master pages if you are familiar with vb.net or C#.
     
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  4. Grand

    Grand Peon

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    Subikar, that sounds interesting, but I have no idea what you mean I'm sorry. Could you explain it a bit more? Unfortunately I'm not familiar with vb.net or C#, but thanks for the reply.
     
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  5. Subikar

    Subikar Active Member

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    I am not saying here about vb.net in any web application you can do. Do you know about cms i.e content management system. They also use the same application. :) Search in web with CMS keyword if still you are not understanding then ask me I am always here to help you out. :)
     
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    to do it real simply, just copy and paste all of the html into your editor, then just change the body as you see fit around the templates and tables
     
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    what's all this talk about vb.net and other programming languages?
    especially when a simple external css will do
    just make an external "maintemplate" css sheet and embed it into your pages
    if you want some pages to look different you can make additional css pages and use them instead
    it's really very simple


    vanessa.
     
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  8. future

    future Banned

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    you can also use any CMS ( joomla is the most popular) for easy editing of your site, but for that you have to install server on your local computer and you should have knowledge of programing or at least some kind of experience.
     
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    turbosatan Well-Known Member

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    i agree with future

    one of my sites is run onjoomla and i am very happy with it.

    it allows yu to store any articles stories etc seperately from the actual template so it makes for a very easy to use system.

    pm me for a full joomla site setup

    if you are going to use random content from article sites for instance then you can get a script which will build you as many pages as you like based on a template from articles.

    pm me if you want the script
     
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    Yeah, I'm with Pixel_Dust. Is there any reason why an external CSS page is undesirable. You can get a basic edumacation about CSS on the W3C site.

    Getting a content management system is another good idea. You can try before you buy over at Opensourcecms. They have several cm systems that you can demo to see if you like them before you download them.
     
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