: Bootstrap dynamic content I am building a website powered by twitter's bootstrap. I have created a landing page with menus and text. The next thing I want to do is create a About page, but

@Rambettina238

There are several ways to do what you want, here is one method that I used to use.

You have your landing page complete, so I assume you have a header with the navigation menus and other information on that page, you have some content in the middle of the page, and you have a footer at the bottom.

What you want to do is re-use the header and footer on all pages, and just change the content, so to do this, you could take all the code for your header and put that in a file and call it header.php. Next, do the same with your footer, again naming it footer.php. Finally, do the same thing with your content, calling it landing_page.php.

Now, in your landing_page.php is where you join all the files together:

<?
include('header.php');
...
output your content here
...
include('footer.php');
?>


Now you can reuse your header and footer in other templates (about.php, etc) without copying all the header and footer code in each template.

This is a very basic example, and there are lots of other techniques but this should get you pointed in the right direction.

For a much more in-depth approach take a look at The No Framework Framework.

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@Nimeshi995

Easiest method would to be use a CMS (Content Management System) there are many Bootstrap frameworks that are compiled and ready to use for many different content management systems. This makes adding content and various pages a breeze. It shouldn't be to hard to take what you have done already and input that into a pre-built framework for a CMS.


Bootstrap for WordPress
Joomla (Default template uses a Bootstrap)
Bootstrap for Drupal


If you still rather use STATIC design then you can use Dreamweaver and save your design blank as a template which makes making new pages faster but its still not as easy as using a CMS. Take a look at saving time in Dreamweaver.

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@Shakeerah822

From a code maintenance point of view, PHP includes are the cleanest way I've come across; another option that I've tried in the past are Dreamweaver template files (think include files that are internal inside of Dreamweaver) but when you publish the file its pure HTML/CSS/JS.

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