Mary said:
I have heard of many languages and they seem to come and go quickly so I
try to stay away from them.
1. COBOL. Designed in the 1950s, still in use. Why? Because people still
need it. There's no way that a well-chosen server-side language is going
anywhere as long as sites still require it.
2. You're using English, a language that is constantly changing. You seem
comfortable with that.
The suggestion to use server-side methods is actually a very good one. In
particular because your task extends across more than one site, and because
the changes are periodic, this is obviously a case where automation is
completely appropriate.
On a properly designed site, you would enter data into a database using one
of many database entry client programs, and the site pages would
automatically display the data appropriate to the date and time they were
displayed.
This is what computers were designed to do -- perform rote, repetitive,
boring data updates for you, freeing you to think more deeply about your
life.
And if you think about it, if you learn server-side methods, even if the
original language disappeared after 15 years (not likely but for the sake
of argument), you would still have expended less energy than by rewriting
all the pages by hand, each and every month.
Apart from the issue of inevitable typographical errors.
Please don't top post.