I want to do a review type of website, there will be a colum that lits all items reviewed with their rankings, I want every page to have that column.

In the future I would like to change review rankings and order of reviews in the column... Is there anyway to make changes to one page so it affects all the pages. I don't want to go through all the pages each time I make a little change...

So far I been told to use flash for the links column or a frame. any other things I could do?

store the info in a database, then have the site query the database for the info. you could even have a CMS (content management system) developed to edit the content, making changing your site as easy as editing a word document.

don't do frames, they never seem to work well. and NEVER use flash for links because search engines can't crawl them. never put important parts of your site (navigation, content...) in flash unless you provide an alternative.

I think PHP is the key :)

There are good CMS' out there.

The last I tried was Geeklog (geeklog.net), and it's pretty cool.

Others:

PHP-Nuke (phpnuke.org)
Post-Nuke (postnuke.com)
Xoops (xoops.org)
PHP WebSite (phpwebsite.appstate.edu])


They're all very costumizable.

Well, you could do a PHP/MySQL combination. Take a look at http://www.php.net/ for more information.

Alternatively, you could do a PHP include() and dynamically include the file. For example, where the column will be, replace it with:

<?php include("column.inc"); ?>

where column.inc is the filename of the column which is dynamically included.

There is a really simple way. That is by using a side-server. The script that you need is only half a sentence long. All pages must be saved with the shtml extension though. So you could maybe have the index fle as a mirror and all the linking pages could be shtml the script is something like
<!--includefile ="file:///filename.shtml:///"-->
It easy in dreamweaver all you do is select insert > script object > side server include then selcet your file.
It's a pretty simple way if you don't like too much scripting