Hi, I'm new to those forums but hope to stay here for longer! I have done few web pages in the past, but that was back in the days when www was invented and all you needed to create a website was Windows Notepad. I'm sure that you can still do it technically in the Notepad but first I'd need to know what I'm doing at all... What I'm trying to do is a kind of a portal with local underground music. Content should be fed by a database. Basically I want to set up a template for the page and then create the content separately and let the website deal with it. Sounds like a simple PHP + mySQL, I know, but here's the twist: First of all I want each band to have an individual page name. Second of all I don't intend to create each of those pages manually - not what I have a template and database for. Once I've done editing I want to press the button and let some engine create all those pages. Purpose? I wan't it to be SEO friendly and have each band's name incorporated into the page address. As I've said - it's been ages since I've done any web-designing so I might be on a completely wrong path here - if such is he case, please illuminate! The second thing I'd like to do is create (automatically, of course) keywords for the whole database using something like a cloud tag, if it makes any sense. Preferably I'd like to be able to filter those words by nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. but that is not necessary. Once that is done, I'd like every word in the database that matches any keyword to be changed into a hyperlink that would lead to an index listing all the pages which have that keyword within their content. Any help would be really, really, really appreciated. I really have no clue where to start. It sounded pretty easy when I have first thought about it and then I came to the point where I had to admit that I don't know what to do. I know I have a lot of catching-up to do but I'm willing to learn and not afraid of it. I know basic html, I have used PHP and mySQL. I've used Access once or twice and I'm vaguely aware of how to use CSS. I've never done any JavaSript but I used to be quite comfortable with C++ (again - that was quite a long time ago). Thanks!
Well the easy option would be to just install a CMS; there are loads of open source CMS with extensions which would give that functionality and much more. Try checking out Joomla (IMO Joomla has better functionality than Wordpress but it takes a bit longer to get used to) or wordpress. Just install them on a server and most of the stuff you're saying is already done for you. I've created tonnes of websites without any PHP or Mysql knowledge, heck I don't even know that much HTML.