Ralph I agree that the content management systems (CMS) WordPress, Drupal, Joomla etc have made having a consistent good styling easy. While WordPress started with blogging it is a broader CMS. What I like about PHP is that the scripts can appear essentially anywhere in the HTML of the page. The style purity or otherwise, is generally not related to PHP but to the accompanying HTML. Consistent look and feel is easy to achieve using the following structure: <?php $my_title = 'The title of page'; include('header_file.php'); include('body_file_01.php'); include('footer_file.php'); ?> Where the header file has the links to style sheets and menus. It would also use the variable $my_title to populate the <title> and other tags. The body_file.php would have the body html and the footer_file.php would close the divs and add footer information. PHP scripting can interact with a variety of database types including MySQL and SQLite. While WordPress is usually used with MySQL database to hold the page information, I understand it can also be used with SQLite. However, isn't this conversation academic for RootsWeb hosting as these elements are not available? Regards Nick My Sites My home <http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Enickred/> My newspaper extracts <http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Enickred/newspaper/index.html> Registry of Deeds Index Project <http://irishdeedsindex.net/index.html> Managed Sites Irish Genealogical Research Society <http://www.igrsoc.org/index.htm> Majura tennis Club <http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Enickred/majuratennis/> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:02:39 -0600 From: "Ralph Taylor" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] New WordPress ? To: <[email protected]> <snip> My most serious criticism is an impression that pages delivered by PHP lack good styling. WordPress seems to have found a way to overcome most of that. ...