How do you make your pages?

i.e article directories, affiliate pages, webshops ...

[tilbryllupet]

I'm very interested in internet marketing, I have a small webshop myself. I spent about 6 months writing the thing in textpad using html, php and javascript. Norwegian people doesen't exactly do it the easy way I think, at least I'm not, but from now on I will be thinking smarter, and therefor I have to ask you guys..

When you make pages to profit from, whether it is webshops, affiliate sites, one-product-shops, article directories or whatever.. how do you make the pages?
(It should be possible to add content in an easy way, and not have to change 238 pages for one change on one page - like a new link that should be reachable from all the pages) - Omg, did you understand that?

Anyway, do you pay someone to make them? Do you use frontpage or dreamweaver, do you write them yourself?

I guess I'm asking for some ideas on how to develop good SEO pages without having to write ten's of thousands of php lines in textpad.

Oh.. And also:
how the %#"% do you make the pages look like thay have been made in plain html even if it is a index.php which runs the whole site.. i'm talking about NOT having the urls like
domain.com/index.php?group=hello&site=indonesia
I want the pages to be generated in html.. if you understand what I mean..
I think myweddingfavors.com gives you an idea on what I'm looking for regarding the urls..

I would love to get some answers...

[maccas]

"how the %#"% do you make the pages look like thay have been made in plain html"

East mod_rewrite [google.co.uk]

i.e in your .htaccess add

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9]).html$ index.php?cat=$1 [L,NC]

and 1.html will goto index.php?cat=1

[MichaelBluejay]

You basically have three options for creating and editing your pages:

(1) Code by hand.
(2) Use a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver or FrontPage.
(3) Use a content management system (CMS). CMS's are really popular for blogs, like Blogger, MovableType, and WordPress.

Personally I use a combination of (1) and (2) for my various sites, and I'll probably add (3) soon.

To be able to make a change in one place to affect the whole site, your options are:

(1) Use SSI (server-side includes). You'll put some code in your pages like <!--#include virtual="/template.html"-->, and then your pages will pull in the template.html file. To turn this feature on you'll also need to edit your .htaccess file (or create it if it's not there), adding the command: AddHandler server-parsed .html

(2) Use a server-side script to assemble your pages (Perl, PHP, or Python). The script can take the common elements (e.g., navigation) and combine them with the page content to print out the complete page. This is most commonly done by keeping the content for each page in a database, like mySQL. If you want the urls to appear nice (e.g., example.com/topic rather than example.com/content.cgi?topic), you can add mod_Rewrite commands to your .htaccess file.

(3) Use a CMS. CMS systems generally let you make a change in one place which affects your whole site.

[tilbryllupet]

Thank you so much!
I'm absolutely overwhelmed by the "service" you get from other users when posting questions on WW!

I wish I had found this forum long ago! Having that said.. I'm really glad I found it at all!

Thanks again folks!

[angelos]

Recently CMS is what I actively use for creating and editing my sites' content. Though of course the classical ones are in the action too.

[angelos]

I forgot to comment on what you said about the usefulness of the forum. Yes, it's difficult to underrate it. That is what I was also very impressed by as I joined it.