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How Do I Redesign My Website?

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I own www.50thRegiment.com which is a website for my high school band alumni.
It’s hosted thru Yahoo! Small Business and I have been using the Yahoo! Site Builder to put it together.
I want to give it a fresh look – and really want to add some user interactivity to it. Currently, users fill out forms with their personal information. That info is then forwarded to me via e-mail. I then (every blue moon) open up the Site Builder and add/update their information. That sometimes means that their info doesn’t post on the website for quite a while.
I’d really love for this process to be automated, and for their info to post as soon as they hit submit. Is there a way to do this with Yahoo Site Builder? Or do I need to use another program? I do have the Adobe CS3 suite which includes Dreamweaver, but I’ve never used it. Should I look into learning that to do all this?
I understand that I’ll be using databases to do this, but I have no knowledge in that area. Any suggestions to get rolling?
Thanks in advance!
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3 Comments to “How Do I Redesign My Website?”

bobsedit November 12, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Yes, you will need to use a database
You will also need a Server Side Scripting language to connect/work on the database
Popular SSS languages are PHP and ASP
Popular databases for PHP is MySQL and for ASP is Access if you expect less than 30 connections at any given time and MS SQL if you need a full blown database.
Start learning at http://www.w3schools.com/
Š€><Ÿ November 12, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Perhaps you could consider using a CMS style website to display your information–like Drupal. It’s a content management system, which allows you to design your site easily and there’s tons of themes or layouts you can change it too.
Or you can try wordpress..many people use wordpress to create a full functional website, which also allows other people to register themselves onto the site and interact with it.
But, personally I think you really need to figure out how you want the website to be, the interaction with other people, the ease of using it, and the attractiveness of it.
Dreamweaver takes a bit of time to understand, I wouldn’t recommend using it–plus it throws out bad code and code not needed. Take a look at a drupal and check out the wikipedia article…good luck!
finding. November 12, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I think what you might want to use is SiteVIN. There you can redesign your site, and the tools are very powerful and easy to use. It’s a lot better than Yahoo builder.
Below is a tutorial taken from the site. It’s really not as hard as it sounds.
How to export/import data submitted via forms to a database?
Website owners usually receive large quantity of information via the web forms added on their websites. To process the information obtained from a registration form for example, you could have the form send the submissions to an email address or to a SiteVIN forum/blog and you may then summarize all entries manually.
Or, you may tie up your form with an online database. As SiteVIN does not currently offer an inbuilt database feature, we recommend integrating your SiteVIN web forms with an online database at ZohoCreator.
The service is (currently) available free of charge and can be seamlessly integrated with SiteVIN web forms. Thus you will be able to collect and store the information submitted via forms in a simple to use database and even easily display all received submissions back within a page on your our SiteVIN website.
The integration of your web forms with ZohoCreator requires a few easy steps:
1. Create a public account at ZohoCreator.
2. Re-create your SiteVIN forms at ZohoCreator . It is essential that the field type of the form fields in ZohoCreator matches the field types of of the form fields in SiteVIN (email, number, date. etc).
3. Go back to your SiteVIN form and update the mail template used. It should be in Plain style and all the entries should be organized as follows:
[field name] : [field value]
where “field name” is exactly the same as the “label name” of the form field you have created in ZohoCreator and field value is the value of your SiteVIN form field selected from the ‘Values’ dropdown in the mail template editing window.
4.Once the form at ZohoCreator is created and SiteVIN’s mail template updated, you should set your SiteVIN form to submit information to the email address for this form at ZohoCreator. To obtain the email address, go to ZohoCreator, click ‘Access this Application’, then on ‘More Actions’ tab select the ‘Import Data link’; then choose the ‘By Email’ option. Copy the email address to the ‘To’ field of your SiteVIN form as done here.
Once this set up is completed all the information submitted via the forms on your website would be summarized into an easy to navigate online data base at ZohoCreator. It can be embeded by using the HTML Snippet element as shown in the ZohoCreator’s Summary view.
To do that follow these steps:
1. click on the ‘View’ tab of your file with name ‘applicationname View’. It’s situated in the left menu of the site, under ‘Home’ title.
2. Select the ‘More Actions’ tab and click on ‘Embed in your Website’
3. Copy/paste the provided code in to a HTML Snippet on your website.