database driven website

[camtherapy]

I have a number of websites that are getting rather cumbersome to keep updating manually. I thought that what I needed was a database driven website but having spent some time looking on the internet I'm not so sure now. The site is: www.camtherapy.co.uk, and I have set up a number of other sites so the problem is going to get bigger if I want to expand.

Basically I would like my web based form to collect the information I need on individual therapists and then for the information to appear on the site. This may be a tall order but any advice would be really helpful so I can at least sound as if I have vague idea what I am talking about when I go to a web designer for help.

Many thanks for any advice you can offer.

[jezemine]

it seems to me this site would benefit from having a database behind it. how else would you manage and store your classified ads, for example? in xml files? I can imagine that this would very quickly become slow and unmaintainable without a database.