How to create webpages that are easy to update?

[BigToque]

If you look at a site like Anandtech (the front page), you see all the entries are part of a database. This obviously means that the site is setup to display the last entries into the database for the day.

I guess what I don't understand is what do you guys use to create the entries into the database?

IE, when NFS4 does his daily web news updates. Where do you write your updates? How do you get them into the database?

I know most of the basics of HTML, but I stopped doing web design like 4 or 5 years ago and there is so much new stuff I feel totally overwhelmed and don't know how to even get started again.

 

[ed21x]

I have a friend that uses Moveable Type, which seems to work rather smoothly for him

 

[DocZaius]

Look into PHP and MySQL, it does what you need. If you don't want to code your own, there are a lot of PHP/MySQL based content management systems (CMS) like PHP-Nuke that are fairly easy to install and use.