HTML question

[shoe]

Hello all, anyone who knows a little about HTML can help me with this.

Basically, we have an existing web-page, which rapidly branches into a large
number of end-points. (so, we have index > index 1 & 2, -> tables, chairs, beds, coffee tables, about us
-> then each of these links to about 30 beds, 20 chairs, 20 coffee tables, etc.

The problem is, It's a lot of work for me because each end node is currently it's
own HTML file, which includes the old, low-resolution banner, and
does not include the new web 2.0 style surround.
also, all the HTML is very messy and filled with WYSIWYG garbage, so spread over
30 files or so It's no quick fix.

Each chair, table or bed has a thumb-nailed image and a bit of text, which links to
a larger image (and sometimes a bit more text).

Would it be worth my wile moving to a PHP compatible webhost and mocking up
a simple CMS, rendering each table, bed or chair as a sort-of database entry?

Is there any way I can write some program to automatically pull out the
information for each chair?

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[d*l*b]

I must admit that nowadays everything from a 2-pager up I do using a CMS! So I would say, yes use a CMS.

My personal preference is MODx as it’s very flexible and doesn’t place any constraints on how you build. A bit of work learning the syntax/terminology but in terms of the more flexible CMS options it’s quite easy.

I would create each object as a document (these would have a template with custom fields as needed) and then use the getResources script (snippet in MODx parlance) to deal with any aggregation of the data as needed. There are many other ways to work in MODx but for something fairly simple like you have, product in a document would be the simplest way to do it.