Designing 500+ pages quickly!

Ok I want to design over 500 pages, which are guides, each one with unique content, and want if possible an automatic way of doing this to speed up the process, without the pages looking like doorway pages.

Any ideas, if any, how I could do this fairly quickly?

I've heard that there's software that will generate pages for you, but the software I've looked at designs the pages like backdoor pages!

 

Take a bunch of nodoz with a speed chaser and start typing like a mad man?

 

Hell ya!! I am also looking for one software like this... mmm if its free, would be gr8! I want to generate over 300 pages for a site. Which would have same header, footer, contents, description... but only change in the body part... anyone has any idea?

 

umm ... run the site off a db

 

Okay, I feel stupid - cheers ferret

 

I would like to learn how to do this - any good resources???

 

Has any one tried Traffic Equalizer or know of anyone who has?

 

Even if you dont' do a DB, just make a template for the one page, and dump in the content as you go. After I have a good, working template (SSI's work well for this) it takes about 2 minutes to make a page, HTML coding by hand is just really simple and fast.

wendy

 

Your average CMS will do this for you.

When you're talking about hundreds of pages, you need a way to manage them - unless you're happy simply generating hundreds of unchanging static pages. A time will come when you want to make changes to more than just the body content - but of course, with the manageability, comes more complexity too.

It's up to you, but you might like to try taking a quick look around http://www.opensourcecms.com/

Cheers,

JL

 

A good way to go about this is to create your unique content and wrap it in php includes. You create an include file for the header, and an include file for the footer. One problem that you will run into is creating unique metatags for each of the pages. If you want it as part of the content as you write it, you probably want a separate metatags file to include for each file.

A lot of CMS's will either allow you to specify keywords for an article, or automatically generate keyword tags based on the content.

 

I can create custom websites with content, 500-1000 pages, with unique page title, description, keywords for each page, NO SPAM. Real Content. Any Topic. No Plagiarism. No Junk. PM if interested

 

NevetS, yes that's what I am planning to do. Keyword Meta tag doesn't play as much of a role in SEO though does it? Or am I misinformed? I can generate unique title and description tags, by using data from the database, and including the echo tags in the title.

It'll be a little messy, but certainly quicker than designing 500ish pages that don't look like duplicate content and doorway pages!

Cheers for everyones advice - I ask ask the same question in another forum, and have got nil response, this is why this forum rocks

 

some 2nd tier search engines still use keyword tags, they are not VERY important, but still, they are important.

 

yep i too recommend a php cms... or you can just create simple includes like nevets mentioned basically using 1 website template....

good luck

 

Try Xoops. A nice cms system with many article/content managers. You can see it on my website saltwaterflyfishers.com

 

Smarty Templates

(You can't beat the price or flexibility.)

 

This is why people invented php. If the forums were to be made of html, there would be at least 100,000 pages the Site Admin have to make and it wouldn't be a live forum right? Run if off a php and sql database. Good luck with it.

 

hmm... I thought php was designed because the IDEA of Active Server Pages was good, but the original implementation sucked.

Which came first? ASP or PHP? Anyone?

Oh... who am I kidding... like MS ever actually had an original idea.

 

Active Server Pages were introduced with release 3 of Microsoft’s web server, Internet Information Server or IIS. It was around 1997

While PHP 3.0 was released Oct 2000

Now its time to guess...

 

(Quoted from http://www.phponline.biz/php/history.php)

In my opinion, being familiar with both, is that PHP is ASP on steroids.