Hi,
I appologise for the incredibly general nature of this question, but I was wondering if anyone knew any good ways to create a directory site. I.e. a bit like directory.google.com.

I have been asked to help develop a student website, at the moment the site is comprised of hundreds of individual HTML pages full of links to other sites. It's basically a massive directory site based individual HTML pages.

As you can imagine this is A COMPLETE NIGHTMARE to maintain, so they want me to provide a better way to maintain the site.

I was thinking about putting everything in a MySQL database, and storing everything in different categories etc. but having looked at google it seems they have static HTML pages also (although I am guessing these must be dynamically generated...?)

Just wondering if anyone could advise me on suitable ways of developing directory sites... maybe there are CPAN modules out there that could help me...? Any help and advice appreciated.

Cheers,
Tom

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