Best way for articles-based website?

[blueclip]

Hi:
Can anybody help me in finding the best way to pull specific content contained in a div on page A into a div on page B? This is the problem I'm having -- on homepage, I'm creating a div that will contain latest content added to the articles page and I only want to pull the title and the first three lines of the article into that div on the homepage.

I've googled for the last couple of hours and all I get is Ajax but it pulls the whole page. I created a div on the articles page named "Pull" within the article container, but still pulled the whole page.

Someone in an IRC proposed using XML but does that mean I have to create the article in XML format and pull it on both the articles page and home page?

Any help? I'm so :confused:

[Medyman]

I'd recommend using a CMS application to maintain your articles. Any application worth it's cost will give you the tools and methods to compile a "latest articles" list. Once you have a significant number of articles, these will get very difficult to maintain.

Plus, a CMS application will give you many more tools that'll make your site more useful -- comments, search, RSS, categorization. Plus, it'll probably streamline your workflow.

My personal recommendation is to use ExpressionEngine (http://www.expressionengine.com/index.php?affiliate=visualbinary). There is a free version (http://expressionengine.com/index.php?affiliate=visualbinary&page=overview/pricing/) that should suit your needs. Though, there are plenty of others out there (WP, Drupal, Joomla, etc...).

[blueclip]

Thank you so much! I'll check'em out right away.