PHP Website Management
I have just bought a small website written with php & html. The
vendors advised me that once I uploaded it to my website I could
customise all the templates to give it whatever look I wanted.
As a novice, I had no idea how difficult this would be - due to the
fact that a php website is very disjointed.
Can anyone tell me of any software I can download that will enable me
to manage my website so that I can see the structure in it easily and
make changes simply.
(I thought I was buying 60 sets of templates but what I bought was a
site with 60 pages).
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