A question about web design

[BD2003]

Me and my friends are planning on making a new website soon. Just a stupid sight for us to post our thuoghts with lots of funny stuff etc...

How are news sites constructed? Like when they get some new news do they create a new page, or do they use some sort of special form that automatically formats it so each news post looks exactly the same?

I plan to use frontpage XP to make this, is there some sort of built in functionality for this purpose in it?

 

[weezergirl]

hmm, i'm not exactly sure what kind of format u want but for updates on my webpage i use blogger.com

 

[Phuz]

Ewww.. frontpage! Gross! Use something like Dreamweaver/GoLive!

Newscripts are pretty common.. there are a gazzilion CGI based ones for free on the net..

S-e-a-r-c-h!

 

[BD2003]

I wouldnt know where to begin to search...which is why I'm asking here.

And I'm not about to go out and spend hundreds of dollars on software when I already have frontpage.

 

[gopunk]

i only use frontpage to see how i want things to look. then i write the code with NOTEPAD. you probably want some kind of cgi script (assuming you don't want to learn how to write your own stuff)... newspro is a good news script.

 

[jacklutz]

Newspro is easy enough to use for anyone, but if you're 'just looking to setup a sight' [sic] I don't think you're going to want to bother with all of that. I'd recommend updating manually until you understand Newspro or have someone set it up for you. Newspro is only really effective on one document, anyway. If you wanted the ability to update more files than one, it gets more complex...

 

[BD2003]

And how exactly do I use a cgi script?

 

[jacklutz]

<< And how exactly do I use a cgi script? >>



That's why it's not worth the time.

 

[Czar]

err.. have you or any of your friends ever made a webpage before?

 

[BD2003]

Dont get me wrong, I'm not new to web design, I've just never designed a page with news. I've actually had some decent sites in the past, and if I needed to I could manually update each page every time I wanted to post, but I know it has to be easier than that.

Having to do that every time I wanted to post something would be too time consuming and would kill all the spontaneity of it.

I could even write it out in notepad, but thats also too time consuming. My knowledge is basically confined to html. I know nothing of cgi, asp etc etc...

 

[Czar]

you could use phpnuke

www.phpnuke.com

to lazy to link

 

[gopunk]

at the very least you will need to learn how to install cgi scripts.

 

[jacklutz]

<< Dont get me wrong, I'm not new to web design, I've just never designed a page with news. I've actually had some decent sites in the past, and if I needed to I could manually update each page every time I wanted to post, but I know it has to be easier than that.

Having to do that every time I wanted to post something would be too time consuming and would kill all the spontaneity of it.

I could even write it out in notepad, but thats also too time consuming. My knowledge is basically confined to html. I know nothing of cgi, asp etc etc... >>



Ensure that your server supports Perl. Have an FTP client? Learn how to access the CHMOD command. Other than that... use the readme and you'll be fine.