Island

No, I am not being paid for this -although I wish I were. The down side is that I'd be paying myself... This information is stuff that I have collected and written over the years. I don't intend to charge a fee of any type for it, althougth some friends keep telling me "to help with the costs put some affiliate links / ads on for something related to the information" er something like that. I don't expect to make anything on it though.I am open to just about any practical suggestion / solution to this task.The CMS idea sounds good and I am investigating that now. I was amazed to see so many free or low cost CMS systems on the Internet. I started with CNET, ZDNET and Google searches and went from there. I will download a hand full, see what they are like and post my findings here with a list of the products that I find. I figure that there are more than likely others that may benefit from this message thread too.I'll keep little goat's PHP information for later as it sounds like something that could be very much of use too. If this works easy enough I suspect that the number of files / pages that I post may expand rapidly. I have always been a bit of a information junkie. The 3500-4000 that I mentioned is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Thanks, Island

I am new to web site design and administration. I am pretty much teaching myself with a little help here and there from people I can ask questions of via IM.I am currently using Dreamweaver MX 2004. I am also attempting to utilize CSS. I have a large site to put up. I have managed to struggle through creating the main pages and so on. Now I am starting on what I refer to as the "content pages". I have a basic template but...I have a collection of information that I want to put on the web for free. I have between 3500 and 4000 MS Word Docs (.doc) that range from 1 one to 10 pages long with a variety of fonts and some graphics imbedded. The documents brake down into about 50 or 60 categories and as many sub categories. I will also need to add a lot more at a later date.What I really need to know is: Is there a way to "generate" web pages either automatically or semi automatically? This would take me forever to make page at a time and do the links by hand.I need something quick and easy but I am not sure that I want to go down the database route. I am hoping that one of you brains out there can tell me there is a tool or technique that will work from a webpage-template and a directory/file structure and auto create the pages. If not than at least something that is low in pain.Keep in mind that I am doing this on a budget and that I am not and don't really want to or have time to become a full time professional webmaster... I just want to share some information and add more as time goes by.Thanks,Island