[KLUG Members] not quite CMS

[Steve Petersen]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to put together a website for the academic job market this 
fall (anyone want to hire a philosopher, by the way?).  I've got an 
external host and I just want to upload content to it.  I learned basic 
CSS and know basic HTML, but I've run into two problems:

1.  There must be some way to avoid putting, say, the /same/ menu div in 
every html page, and changing it on /every/ page when you change your 
mind?  I ask people about this and the solution seems to be "use 
Dreamweaver".  (Thanks, M$ slave!)  There's frames, I guess, but that's 
supposed to be bad for reasons I don't really understand (though I do 
think they're ugly).  The only other solution I've heard is php.  I 
don't know php and I'm not sure what the issues might be with my web 
host.  Isn't there some kind of "local" content management system (if 
that's the right term) for linux that will do this for me?

2.  I spent some time making the CSS nice on Firefox, and it checks out 
okay on other browsers (not great on IE--unneeded scroll bars and such), 
but it is a /disaster/ on Safari.  The CSS is kosher so I can only guess 
Safari is messed up somehow.  Any hints about how to handle this?

I should say that though I'm a linux user, it's more out of ideology 
than expertise--you shouldn't /assume/ I can do fancy computer things.

Thanks!
Steve