How do I create a web site with multiple pages?

[Guest]

I am creating a web site with MANY products pages and find myself sitting for
hours creating hundreds of pages. How can I create all these pages without
having to go through the process of creating each page individually? I am
using a template already, but each page needs slightly different information
and identical editing.

Thank you.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

Hard to tell without seeing what you're doing...probably not...but why not post the URL, maybe someone will have a better idea.


| I am creating a web site with MANY products pages and find myself sitting for
| hours creating hundreds of pages. How can I create all these pages without
| having to go through the process of creating each page individually? I am
| using a template already, but each page needs slightly different information
| and identical editing.
|
| Thank you.

 

[Rick Budde]

Your template should be created with Tables and Include
Pages. The Include Page component would contain content
that is the same on all or groups of pages but that you
might want to change sometime in the future.

Your variable content, i.e. that content that differs by
product, must be created on each page derived from the
template. The only way to shorten that effort would be to
not offer as many products which I am sure you don't want
to do just to shorten your webmaster duties.

-----Original Message-----
Hard to tell without seeing what you're doing...probably

not...but why not post the URL, maybe someone will have a
better idea.

"Bridgitte" <[email protected]> wrote

in message (e-mail address removed)...

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

If she's talking about products for sale..and has that many items...she may be better service with a storefront. Hard to tell by the OP.


| Your template should be created with Tables and Include
| Pages. The Include Page component would contain content
| that is the same on all or groups of pages but that you
| might want to change sometime in the future.
|
| Your variable content, i.e. that content that differs by
| product, must be created on each page derived from the
| template. The only way to shorten that effort would be to
| not offer as many products which I am sure you don't want
| to do just to shorten your webmaster duties.
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Hard to tell without seeing what you're doing...probably
| not...but why not post the URL, maybe someone will have a
| better idea.
| >
| >
| in message | (e-mail address removed)...
| >| I am creating a web site with MANY products pages and
| find myself sitting for
| >| hours creating hundreds of pages. How can I create all
| these pages without
| >| having to go through the process of creating each page
| individually? I am
| >| using a template already, but each page needs slightly
| different information
| >| and identical editing.
| >|
| >| Thank you.
| >.
| >

 

[Peter R. Fletcher]

Alternatively, you could put your product data in a database and pull
data for a selected product or group of products into a single page
(or one of a small number of pages) on the fly using ASP or ASP.NET.
This is certainly not trivial to set up, but it is almost certainly
the best way to handle your problem, since it is relatively easy to
update the database when your products change, as I am sure they do,
and you don't have to change anything else unless you want to.

Your template should be created with Tables and Include
Pages. The Include Page component would contain content
that is the same on all or groups of pages but that you
might want to change sometime in the future.

Your variable content, i.e. that content that differs by
product, must be created on each page derived from the
template. The only way to shorten that effort would be to
not offer as many products which I am sure you don't want
to do just to shorten your webmaster duties.

not...but why not post the URL, maybe someone will have a
better idea.
in message (e-mail address removed)...

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Consider using a database driven shopping cart application, which one/type will depend on what OS
your site is hosted on and what is supported by your web host.

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