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2beone
Dec 29th, 2000, 01:10 PM
I recently designed a site for a pro songwriter. On the site we provide lyrics and sound clips. The lyrics are broken into 6 genres. My situation is this, even though I have the jumps to the individual lyrics posted at the top of every page I'm thinking that alot of folk may not scroll down or use the jumps to view lyrics that aren't in plain site. What I want to do is provide links that will generate the lyrics and sound clip links instead of a page full of text to scroll through. What would be the best way to do that. The site http://www.anntracks.com
Alien
Jan 2nd, 2001, 02:49 AM
Do you mean that you don't want the page of links to be auto generated?
2beone
Jan 2nd, 2001, 06:52 AM
I didn't explain that too well did I, sorry about that.
There are approx. 47 songs on the site. The songs are broken into 6 genres. The song titles are listed at the top of the page,underneath a link to hear all the clips one after another, below that each songs' lyrics are printed along with links to hear the corresponding clip. Some of the pages have up to eight songs and are rather long. I was trying to think of a way to have just the song titles, maybe on a catalog page and once they're(the song titles) clicked a page will generate with the lyrics and link to hear the sound clips. I thought cgi? Someone mentioned a database.
Jaiem
Jan 2nd, 2001, 07:13 AM
Maybe PHP combined with a database?
2beone
Jan 2nd, 2001, 07:17 AM
can you point me in a direction of PHP resources, have no experience with it? thanks for replying p
2beone
Jan 2nd, 2001, 11:42 AM
have any examples of websites done with php that I could take a look at? p
uuallan
Jan 3rd, 2001, 05:03 AM
Originally posted by 2beone
can you point me in a direction of PHP resources, have no experience with it? thanks for replying p

Best place to start is http://www.php.net/.

As for sites using PHP, this forum site is an excellent example.

Hope this helps.

allan
Alien
Jan 3rd, 2001, 06:34 AM
Are you ruinning an NT server? If you are then you should be able to use ASP which is a very easy language if you know any vb and access. There is a guide on this site if you want to get started.

http://www.webhostdir.com/guides/asp

Once you have done the intro guide you could try
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com and http://www.asptoday.com
2beone
Jan 3rd, 2001, 09:10 AM
I'm running a Unix server