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I'd like to be able to design a website for the newspaper that can display individual articles but still give me the flexability to modify the menu, header, footer text, etc. without having to change every article page and without using frames. (Whatever method I end up using, it has to be able to support a search feature.)
Right now I'm using Server Side Includes but this means I have 2 documents for every article: the .html page that contains only the article text and the .shtml page that links to the menu, header, footer text and article text html. I don't think the method I am using is the most efficient.
Should I use some sort of database for this? If so, what kind of database? Can anyone point me in the right direction?
There are a number of solutions to your problem, but all will involve getting a little more sophisticated than Server Side Includes.
Depending on your server and level of interest in programming, you can use a wide variety of server side processing languages. ASP, JSP, and PhP are probably the most common.
Technically you wouldn't need a database, but you would need a well developed template system that you could modify as needed.
Take a look at www.nytimes.com. Here is a newspaper website that is updated every fifteen minutes! Looking at the code won't help, because everything is processed server side.
Build a template, then all you need to create, or modify, is the content pages. You will still need multiple pages, but creating a newspaper is a tall order.
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