How to create hundreds of webpages

[Chad]

If I wanted to add hundreds of pages of content how can I do that without having to manually create each page...most will be same template just have to copy/paste the content.

Is there a program out there that creates pages for you?

Thanks

[safesys]

Couldn't you just set up something like wordpress or drupal, create a theme that would run across all the pages then just enter the content into the database?

[Chad]

I guess I need to learn Wordpress then.

I'm behind a few years.

[warsteiner21]

Yes, that would be very easy with Wordpress - it's well worth taking the time to learn how to use it if you are doing any development.
Even if you are a wizard with Dreamweaver, it's hard to beat the speed at which you can pump out sites with Wordpress.

[gwideas]

If you need a quick and dirty I'd say wordpress -- somethign more custom I'd go with django or RoR

[doughmein]

Originally posted by Chad
I guess I need to learn Wordpress then.

I'm behind a few years.

In the company of many.

[Mike]

whats wordpress

[bidawinner]

Chad.. I changed E85vehicles over to a Joomla CMS (http://www.joomla.org/) a few week a ago.. I found the learning curve to be a pain because the terminolgy was so different from what I was use to using Microsoft Expression .

Now that I have the hang of it ..I like it..

I personally don't think it is any "faster" to build pages BUT it is nice to be able to add Polls and other widgets, gadgets and change layouts on the fly. You change your mind and want content on the right and ads on the left ..those types of changes are faster



I avoided CMS because the SEO for them was lousy until recently..last year or so

[gwideas]

well with wordpress.org you can import via csv

[andrewm]

Wordpress definatly seems to be one of the better blog/CMS software packages available.

It is user-friendly, SEOed right out of the box - friendly URL's, auto generated meta descriptions, keywords, etc, documentation is decent, automated upgrades and there are heaps of plug ins available for it that will do pretty much anything you want.

It is written in PHP and uses MySQL, so will run on basically any server and if you are familiar with your webserver, you can install it around 5 minutes:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress or many webhosts have a feature to install it automatically.

If you have a bit of PHP knowledge, you can easily write a script to automatically import all of your pages in whatever format...

Cheers,
Andrew

[Chad]

Thanks yall...

[kohashi]

How did you decide to go out of curiosity?

[Chad]

I'm looking into Wordpress and Drupal.

Will probably end up outsourcing someone to do this for me.

My brain doesn't seem to like to learn new things anymore.

I probably just need some Red Bull.

[Domo Sapiens]

Originally posted by Chad
I'm looking into Wordpress and Drupal.

Will probably end up outsourcing someone to do this for me.

My brain doesn't seem to like to learn new things anymore.

I probably just need some Red Bull.

One of the sequels of Parker's Syndrome.
I suffer from that too.
Group hug? anyone?

I am not able to differentiate between Wordpress and Whypark yet...
The only thing I know how to do is change Name servers.
Hosting who?

[jdilegge]

I wrote a script, not trying to sell it just giving example, that takes product feeds from CJ.COM and LinkShare and enters each product in the database and the script then assigns each one its own page with SEF url. See at computersheetmusic[dot]com. Overall with script coding and all I created over 100K unique SEF pages in less than 8 hours. The beauty is that the script formatted and changed wording to give the pages a unique attitude.

JUST DO NOT use an auto scraper. Will NEVER get you anywhere. Many have tried to get me to code them and I tell them no because there is enough duplicate crap online.