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[eion]

I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to webpage development. I'm done with the basic design in PS and have sliced it up and began working with the page in Adobe GoLive.

But when it comes to different things I would like to add to the site, such as: a standard page thingy --> what I mean here is i would like to have kind of a standard design to one section of the page. Say, i want to review films at my site. I want a standard layout where I have a image of the film's cover, the name in the title and a dice, or some kind of rating system, the name of the main actors and director.

What I'm trying to say or ask is, how do i create a standard layout for this and where I don't have to copy the whole page and then paste it into a new document. Some kind of admin-page where i could write the review or whatever and just press "print" or something when I'm done and voilà it's a new review there.

does anybody know what I'm asking? Or am I talking Greek?!

-eion

[shameless_w_o_a_d]

Hi, eion!

I believe the terminology you're wanting here is a template. My understanding is you want, for example, a movie review page template, that displays the film's cover (as in the DVD case, I believe), the movie title, your rating (or whatever the system is), and a list of the actors and director(s) that were involved in the film's production.

There is a few ways you can go about it. You can either just make a blank HTML page that has the consistent layout you want to use sorted for you so that when it comes to adding a new review, you just create a copy of the page (the template) and start typing in the necessary information where it needs to go. Unfortunately, this is more in regards to what you don't want.

The way that it appears you want it to be produced is using a programming language such as PHP which will give you a page you can view to add a new review, and once you submit it the review is placed into a database (such as MySQL) which can then be viewed by everyone through your templated page - or certain people (such as registered users of your website) if you wanted to. For this purpose, you'll need to learn how to program in PHP, and how to make queries to databases and how this works within PHP. There's plenty of tutorials around that have a beginner's guide to both PHP and MySQL which will be able to help you in the right direction, but there's always these forums if you come across problems and need some help.

Hope this helps answer your question.