Hello,

I've got a website that I will have to start working on in a few months, and want to prepare, as my web skills are middling.

This upcoming website will have lots of data (names, hyperlinks and art). Last year I did a very similar site entirely in CSS/HTML. There were about 350 individual entries. I put all the data in manually.

Another website I had previously done (also very similar) loaded the data into an XML document that was displayed in Flash.

Both approaches have their good and bad points. My question is: can you display XML data (copy, hyperlinks and art) into a CSS/HTML doc? And if so, how?

Thanks in advance for any help you can throw my way!

Yes, you can, by using an XSLT transformation engine.
http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/...ok1/index.html
http://www.quixml.org

but you better use an server side scripting engine along with it, because only modern browser are able to mix xml+xsl to output html natively.
You will have to do that on the server for older browsers.

Hmmmm....sounds a little too much for me.

Unfortunately I'm a designer and not willing to learn any more script/code. I think I'd just end up crying.

Thanks for your help! I'm glad I found this forum.

You might want to consider a content management system of some sort. This is a good website to demo a lot of different systems.