Content layout on Contribute

Question

I just need to find out if is it possible on contribute to be
able to upload changes on a website without in anyway altering the
design, like for example on the news page, would it be possible to
have on contribute fields where the user can input news with
seperate fields for the date and a field for the news? Basically
whereby the page will always have a standard format?

Answer 1

PHP:
change format as you like:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
code example:
<?php
$date = date("j-n-Y");
echo $date;
?>
Javascript:
view:
http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptdate.php
code example:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var currentTime = new Date()
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1
var day = currentTime.getDate()
var year = currentTime.getFullYear()
document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year)
//-->
</script>