Hi! If a was to make a template, sort of a blog type template. And then i would like to have a search option on the page for searching previous posts. Would it be better to create the template for CMS like WP or just normal template. And is it absolutely necessary to use php or some other stuff to achieve the search possibility. Because i know no php or any database stuff at all. I would like to just have the search option in the template nothing else. So what do i need to do? Thanks in advance! HDaddy
I'd go with a CMS since you don't know any server-side programming languages or databases. PHP/MySQL is a very popular SSP/RDBMS combination, and as such you shouldn't have any problems. WordPress is a very popular CMS (though it was designed with bloggers in mind), but most of the existing themes (I'm going to single out Sandbox and Cutline as two popular examples) are poorly coded, either using hacks/conditional comments when there's no need for them, or have adopted an SEO-content-first-at-the-expense-of-everything-else mindset. Most of the canned themes also abuse HTML elements for "SEO purposes" when in fact they shouldn't (use HTML to mark up your site, not to improve your rankings in the search engines; follow that advice and write unique, original and quality content, and the search engines will follow).