article method

[n1ckn4me]

hi all!

I have a goal to make a website such as cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com) and abcnews.com (http://www.abcnews.com). Im not intending to compete with these pro's but just for me to learn and create a compared website.

I have made a couple of webtemplates for articles and I was comparing the two newssites method of writing articles.

cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com) : cnn.com/year/catagory/place/day/month/articletitle/index.html

...I would d'rather prefair this way;

abcnews.com (http://www.abcnews.com) : www.abcnews.com/catagory/name?id=123

...this method is probably a script there're using...

What do you recomment ? Are there known html scripts/software ? any other suggestions ?


Thanks in advanced!

[Badman3k]

The chances are they both work in exactly the same way, just one is designed to be Search Engine friendly (cnn) and the other isn't.

They will both probably use a database to store all the articles and information and then have a server side script to get the id from either name?id=123 or from the long url string which will determine which article to display. The server side script will access the database and then get the data and display it.

With regards to scripts, there's hundreds of scripts available to do what you want to do, some will cost money, others wont. However, you will need to learn a server side language in order to use them. IMO you'd be best learning PHP or ASP completely and writting your own code, as it's not all that difficult once you get going. I'd recommend the PHP (http://www.codingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6) or ASP (http://www.codingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8) forums on here if you ever need any help.

Obviously you'll need to test you're code on a server with PHP/ASP and Database featuresm but if you want a local test server, I'd recommend XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/), but this is for PHP only (as far as I know :rolleyes:)

I hope this is of use

[n1ckn4me]

this is great to hear! I didn't tought yet that the most importantly thing was going to be that I want it to be searchfriendly. Also it's usefull to know that either way is indeed probably by a script. I will take a look at some softwares/scripts and maybe I could create my own script but that would probably be a new world to me...but hey...why not ?

Thanks for your info! It helped alot on what to do next. :thumbsup:

[Kurashu]

Both are search engine friendly.

[[Unknown]]

Well, depending on how well you want the script intergrated into you website, will depend if you want to use a free script or hire a programmer. I suggest you search for a PHP / SQL programmer that could further assist you.