front page ?

[vc_wannabe]

Im using front page 2000. and I am about to make a page like I've never made before. Basicly the pages are all going to have the same type of information. But the text will vary. Kind of like a car dealership web page. How/what do I use to make it so I can just plug in a pic, and text. Without having to make the page over and over.

[Immortal]

I always use tables and make the stuff that you are not going to change much... at least I suppose..

so let's say I make the top bar and the side bar things I won't change much... then the main cell / table in the middle so to speak

You create a whole new html file and such.... then when you're done editing it... go back to the original one and click on that cell ... click insert > File > "xxx.html"

Then click "save as" - page1.htm (or whatever name u want it to be)

continue doing this till u finish all the others

later on when u update the page and you want to change something... just change xxx.html and page1.html will change too....

maybe it's confusing but I'll try and make it simpler later.. :p probably with diagrams if needed

[jmw1137]

I do it the same way as immortal, but that gets to be a pain....mostly because, say sometime down the road you want to change one of the buttons. Now you have to go page by page and make the change...big PITA.

A good design software that does this is Netobjects 7. The only problem is the only way it works is if you use one of their templates. Most of them are really nice looking, so it's not that bad if you end up having to do that.

I know there's a way to do this with ASP, but I don't know that at all. There has to be an easier way to do it, other than just with NO or ASP....

[Immortal]

Well if u're talking about changing everpage.. this is what I do...

I make a "template page" with just tables and where I want to put things..

Then I go and make a seperate page... say one called side.html , top.html and a main.html

I just go back to the template page.. insert side.html into side.. top into top and main into main.. then save the whole thing as index.html

so on that page ..it just basically has nothing but links to pages...

so if I change a button on the side.html then index.html would be updated itself.... and so on and so forth... u know what I mean rite? :p

[jmw1137]

Yeah, that makes sense...do you have a website online that uses that technique so we can take a look at what the HTML for that looks like?

[Immortal]

Originally posted by jmw1137
Yeah, that makes sense...do you have a website online that uses that technique so we can take a look at what the HTML for that looks like?

used to... but I stopped the webby cause of the lack of money.. heh..

that and it's not all that great.. gotta learn how to use flash

[jmw1137]

Do you still have the HTML file on your computer then? I'm just really curious to see how this works.

Thanks.

[Immortal]

Originally posted by jmw1137
Do you still have the HTML file on your computer then? I'm just really curious to see how this works.

Thanks.

wish I did.. then I'd put it in my portfolios... damn I should have saved it... it was an ok site..