Hello,

I'm looking for the most efficient (both time and money) ways to have 75 very nice looking websites built on the same theme. The websites need to look different so that when the average joe looks at them, he doesn't think it's the same site that he may have seen before.

I've actually contemplated utlitizing some sort of theme/template system in the way that forums often work. A new theme could be created, uploaded, and with a quick switch in the admin panel the entire site could drastically change it's appearance.

Another idea was to simply pay a web development company to handle such a large task. I have a decent budget, but I have no plans of spending more than I have to meet our goals.

The admin based template system does sound ideal.

Any thoughts?

Brandon Drury

Do you want to have the same content on each of the sites? There are tools out there that would probably allow you to simply change the template and achieve a different design. I'd do a search on download.com for something like website generator. And see if anything comes up. You possibly could find a tool, that would generate all the code automatically and all you'd have to do is select a different template and upload it.

I know a lot of people use such tools for generating sites with articles, which have adsense ads on them. I don't which one is that good.

To change the look, use a layout based on stylesheets (see http://csszengarden.com for great example of the power of stylesheets). A template should be used if you have more than 1 page with the same HTML layout (which doesn't necessarily impact the look of a page stylized with css).

I'm not sure which program may exist to already do that, but if after you take a look at everything you still haven't found what you're looking for, PM me.

Good luck.

I guess you should find someone very familiar with CSS. If you can not do it by yourself you should require help from company. I can lead you to some cheap solutions.

2 months is quite enough for someone experienced, if you already have the content.

yeh css is the best choice. I lOVE CSSZENGARDEN. its way good.