Site reconstruction

[Lietotajvards]

So my issue goes like this:

I have just come to a new job and the first thing they want me to do is to reconstruct the homepage. I agreed (had done some HTML static sites before and this looked like one). Seemed an relatively easy job to add another level of menu, to redesign the looks of the page. What I stumbled upon is a far more complicated task than I have imagined.

 

The page actually is made using PHP and MySQL. It goes like this as far as I have dug up. There are the main index.php page wich draws information of how to build the menu and what to put in the field where the text goes. Then between the "usual" textual pages there are two database query pages (menu entries for them are drawn also from the database), these pages search info in other databases ment for user use.

Then there are password protected administrator area. There are pages for upgrading info on administrators as well as a page for making new pages for index page. (using some kind of tool called FCKeditor, if I remember correctly). So through that page one can add pages for publiv view (menu updates automatically)

Theh there is a db page which is very similar to admin page, but instead is used for updating info in those databases mentioned earlier where a user can search them through.

 

What they want from me is to make the public page with different design (it's done using html tables right now), also make the navigation in two levels (now it is index - page, they want index - category - page) and to add a members area to the public page so users can post messages and update them.

 

Could I be able to make these changes using Dreamweaver? Any suggestions? Also my knowledge of PHP/MySQL is rather basic.

 

Thanks!

 

Oh, you can take a look at the current page from a user point of view: www.masoc.lv

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You cannot edit PHP visually in Dreamweaver.  You can edit the code manually, but not visually.