Need to start a suggestion generator website, what is the easiest way?

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Hello everyone!
I have the idea of starting a website that very simply generates different content (suggestions) every time the user opens the page; or clicks on a link. I really need it to be as simple as possible.

I have a website with joomla but I am not sure joomla can do that. What is in your opinion the EASIEST way for me to create this website? do I have to learn PHP? (excuse my ignorance) if so, what would you recommend to start with?

Thank you very much!! :slight_smile:

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Blackzero,

What exactly do you want the site to suggest? Content? Other pages to look at ? I can think of a number of things that you would suggest to a user but it would be helpful if you were more specific. There is an extension for Joomla that gives article suggestions.

Hope that helps,

Shawn

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very specifically, artists ( a very local thing) . Their picture, and link to their page.

and thank you SO much! I’ll give that a try

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is it possible to do it with Dreamweaver??

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yes dream waiver can do it but you have to get deep knowledge about it.

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You can use Dreamweaver but you need to use PHP too. I’m not sure on the exact method of doing this but i looked into this a while back for a photo generator. I don’t think it’s possible without PHP. I suppose it all depends on the amount of content you want to generate. Only 5-10 images or 5,000-10,000?.

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It`s possible to do it with Notepad, no need for DW, all you need to know is a programming language :slight_smile:

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Cant say if its the easiest way, but with PHP you will be able to create such website.

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Undoubtedly via PHP –> you don’t need to learn all the features of PHP to get this done.

Kind Regards,
Johan Santamaria
ICTBoost Webdesign

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You can try imcreator. i’m using it for a while and i’m very pleased. it’s a free website builder with a very easy interface.
it has many templates to choose from and you can easily design with drag&drop system.
the main advantage of it is that you don’t need any former experience in codding.
good luck!

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search for some scripts in google and github

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You may want to do a search for a random generator. If you use a Javascript random number generator, then you could tie the number to a suggestion and display that using if statements. This assumes your list is short, and not hundreds of pages.