Building a website

not difficult to get it to look the same - the database behind it is a totally different story though. What exactly do you need it to do?

Well basically, if I wanted to design a website with a similar layout/functionality to betfair's, how would I go about it. I already have a business website (built using 1&1) but it doesn't have any templates for what I want.

Not for a gambling site I hasten to add!

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html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
head
link rel="Start" title="Main site" type="text/html" href="http://betting.betfair.com/" /
link rel="search" title="Main site" type="text/html" href="http://betting.betfair.com/" /
link rel="bookmark" title="Main site" type="text/html" href="http://betting.betfair.com/" /
link rel="alternate" title="Main site" type="text/html" href="http://betting.betfair.com/" /
titleBetfair.com: Online Betting, Sports Betting, Horse Racing, Football | Bet Poker, Casino & Games/title
meta name="description" lang="en" content="Online sports betting: Win up to 20% more - live in-play, best odds on Sports, Football and Horse Racing. For safe and secure betting, Casino, Games and Poker - enter now." /

meta name="keywords" lang="en" content="bet online, sports betting, bet, betting, football betting, horse racing betting, football odds" /
meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /
meta name="language" content="en" /
meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" /
meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /
link rel="meta" href="http://cache.betfair.com/labels.rdf" type="application/rdf+xml" title="ICRA labels" /
meta http-equiv="pics-Label" content='(pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/pics/vocabularyv03/" l gen true for "http://betfair.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 oa 0 ob 0 oc 0 od 0 oe 2 of 0 og 0 oh 0 c 3) gen true for "http://www.betfair.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 oa 0 ob 0 oc 0 od 0 oe 2 of 0 og 0 oh 0 c 3))' /
link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://cache.betfair.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/

link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="http://cache.betfair.com/forum/betfair/GBR/en/generic/css/betfair.css?ver=3.2" /
!--[if lt IE 7]link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="http://cache.betfair.com/forum/betfair/GBR/en/generic/css/site_ie_override.css?ver=3.2" /![endif]--
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script type="text/javascript"
//Context setup
document.domain = "betfair.com";
var betfair = {
defaults: {
"documentDomain": "betfair.com",
"topDomain": "forum.betfair.com",
"contentDomain": "content.betfair.com",
"myaccountDomain": "accountservices.betfair.com",
"regionId": "GBR",
"localeId": "en",
"brandId": "betfair",
"productName": "forum",
"cdnHost": "http://cache.betfair.com",
"cdnLocation": "http://cache.betfair.com/forum/betfair/GBR/en/generic/",
"dimensionPath": "",
"betexPtkQStrings": "?pi.localeId=en&pi.regionId=GBR&pi.brandId=betfair"
},
messages: {
error: {
"Global.NoCookies": "You appear to have cookies switched off in your browser. Our site performs best when they are switched on. Please allow cookies."
},
login: {
failure: {
"Frontpage.Login.Error.No.User.Name.Password": "Please be sure to enter the following details:\nYour username\nYour password.",
"Login.Error.Message": "You have entered an invalid Username or Password - Please try again.\nNote that both fields are case sensitive!\nCheck Caps Lock",
"Login.Account.Locked": "As a security precaution, this account has been locked because there have been six consecutive incorrect password entries. This is a security precaution.\nTo unlock your account please call our Helpdesk.",
"Login.Account.Already.Locked": "As a security precaution, this account has already been locked because there have been six consecutive incorrect password entries. This is a security precaution.\nTo unlock your account please call our UK Helpdesk on 0044 20 8834 8060.",
"Login.Error.Account.Excluded": "This account is self excluded as part of our Responsible Gambling Policy\nand cannot be accessed.\nPlease contact our Helpdesk if you require any further assistance.",
"Login.Restricted.Location.Message": "You may not access this account from this location.",
"Login.Security.Restricted.Message": "Login Denied. Please call Betfair Helpdesk @ +44 208 834 8060",
"Login.Account.Betting.Restricted.Location": "Our software detects that you may be accessing the Betfair website from a country that Betfair does not accept bets from. If you believe that this detection has occurred in error please contact the Helpdesk for further assistance.",
"Forgotten.Password.Account.Canceled.Message": "Access to this account is denied - this account has been closed. \nPlease contact the Helpdesk if you have any questions."
},
suspended: {
"Login.Suspended.Message": "Your account has been suspended.\n\nYou are able to change your account profile only. All other functionality has been disabled on your account.\n\nPlease contact the Betfair helpdesk for more information\n(e-mail: info@betfair.com or telephone: 0844 871 0000 in the UK)."
}
},
logout: {
"Current.Bets.View.Unmatched.Bets.Confirmation": "Are you sure you want to log out?",
"Current.Bets.View.Unmatched.Bets.Instructions": "Click 'OK' to log out or 'Cancel' to view your unmatched bets.",
"Current.Bets.View.Unmatched.Bets.UK": "You have unmatched bets on the UK Exchange.",
"Current.Bets.View.Unmatched.Bets.AUS": "You have unmatched bets on the Australian Exchange.",
"Current.Bets.View.Unmatched.Bets.Intl": "You have unmatched bets."
},
account: {
"Async.Field.Loading": "loading"
},
restricted_country: {
"Global.Buttons.Ok": "OK"
},
walletNames: {
"Global.Product.Wallet.Short.Display.Name.1": "Main wallet:",
"Global.Product.Wallet.Short.Display.Name.2": "AUS wallet:",
"Global.Product.Wallet.Short.Display.Name.3": "Instant Play:",
"Global.Product.Wallet.Short.Display.Name.4": "Games:",
"Global.Product.Wallet.Short.Display.Name.5": "Download Casino:"
}
},
reports: {
perf: true,
InitialisationTime: new Date().getTime(),
DOMContentLoaded: false,
PageLoaded: false,
PageUnloading: false
}
};
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script type="text/javascript" src="http://cache.betfair.com/js/betfair.js?ver=3.2"/script
script type="text/javascript" src="http://cache.betfair.com/forum/betfair/GBR/en/generic/js/forum.js?ver=3.2"/script
script type="text/javascript"
// Domain config
top.domainManager = (function() {
var WebAppInfo = betfair.DomainManager.webAppInfo;
var domainManager = betfair.DomainManager.domainManager;
var productName = 'forum';
domainManager.addApplication('portal',new WebAppInfo('accountservices.betfair.com','accountservices.betfair.com'));
domainManager.getApplication('portal').addPath('wallettx', '/myaccount/wallet/TransferView.do?sizeX=520&sizeY=520');
domainManager.getApplication('portal').addPath('home', '/PortalHomePage.do');
domainManager.getApplication('portal').addPath('forum', '/account/ForumRedirect.do');
domainManager.getApplication('portal').addPath('myaccount', '/myaccount/account/MyAccount.do');
domainManager.getApplication('portal').addPath('openaccount', '/myaccount/account/registration/BeginRegistration.do');
domainManager.getApplication('portal').addPath('lostpasswd', '/account/forgotpassword/ForgottenPassword.do?method=initialise');

domainManager.addApplication('accountservices',new WebAppInfo('accountservices.betfair.com','accountservices.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('myaccount',new WebAppInfo('accountservices.betfair.com','accountservices.betfair.com/myaccount'));
domainManager.getApplication('myaccount').addPath('cardCountries', '/payment/CardCountries.do');
domainManager.getApplication('myaccount').addPath('cardPolicy', '/payment/CardPolicy.do');
domainManager.getApplication('myaccount').addPath('cvv2', '/payment/Cv2.do');

domainManager.addApplication('games',new WebAppInfo('games.betfair.com','site.games.betfair.com'));
domainManager.getApplication('games').addPath('wallettx', '/gamex/DepositFundsPopup.do?sizeX=420&sizeY=360');
domainManager.getApplication('games').addPath('doLogout', '/account/login/GamesLogoutAction.do');
domainManager.getApplication('games').addPath('mygamesaccount', '/account/MyAccount.do?tabID=1&sizeX=788&sizeY=500');

domainManager.addApplication('poker',new WebAppInfo('poker.betfair.com','site.poker.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('casino',new WebAppInfo('casino.betfair.com','site.casino.betfair.com'));
domainManager.getApplication('casino').addPath('wallettx', '/MyAccount.do?panel=transferin&sizeX=600&sizeY=800');
domainManager.getApplication('casino').addPath('doLogout', '/account/login/LogoutAction.do');
domainManager.getApplication('casino').addPath('mycasinoaccount', '/TransferHistory.do?page=1&menu=transferhistory&sizeX=800&sizeY=600');
domainManager.getApplication('casino').addPath('popLogoutTx', '/account/logout/CheckBalanceAction.do?transferFundsQuestion=true&sizeX=800&sizeY=600');

domainManager.addApplication('arcade',new WebAppInfo('arcade.betfair.com','site.arcade.betfair.com'));
domainManager.getApplication('arcade').addPath('myarcadeaccount', '/portal?action=GoHist&sizeX=800&sizeY=600');

domainManager.addApplication('financials',new WebAppInfo('financials.betfair.com','content.betfair.com/content/en_GB/portal/misc/financials.homepage.html'));

domainManager.addApplication('forum',new WebAppInfo('forum.betfair.com','site.forum.betfair.com/jive3'));

domainManager.addApplication('sports',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('payment',new WebAppInfo('payment.betfair.com','site.payment.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('multiplesaus',new WebAppInfo('multiples.au.betfair.com','site.multiples.au.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('multiples',new WebAppInfo('multiples.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com/?mHome'));

domainManager.addApplication('othersports',new WebAppInfo('othersports.betfair.com','othersports.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('account',new WebAppInfo('account.betfair.com','account.betfair.com'));
domainManager.getApplication('account').addPath('openaccount', '/account-web/registerAccount.html');

domainManager.addApplication('extras',new WebAppInfo('extras.betfair.com','site.extras.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('content',new WebAppInfo('content.betfair.com','content.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('widgets',new WebAppInfo('site.sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com'));

domainManager.addApplication('soccer',new WebAppInfo('soccer.betfair.com','site.soccer.betfair.com?ti=1'));

domainManager.addApplication('tennis',new WebAppInfo('tennis.betfair.com','site.tennis.betfair.com?ti=2'));

domainManager.addApplication('golf',new WebAppInfo('golf.betfair.com','site.golf.betfair.com?ti=3'));

domainManager.addApplication('cricket',new WebAppInfo('cricket.betfair.com','site.cricket.betfair.com?ti=4'));

domainManager.addApplication('rugbyunion',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?ti=5'));

domainManager.addApplication('horseracing',new WebAppInfo('horseracing.betfair.com','site.horseracing.betfair.com?ti=7'));

domainManager.addApplication('motorsport',new WebAppInfo('motorsport.betfair.com','site.motorsport.betfair.com?ti=8'));

domainManager.addApplication('horseracingtodayscard',new WebAppInfo('horseracingtodayscard.betfair.com','site.horseracingtodayscard.betfair.com?ti=13'));

domainManager.addApplication('soccerfixtures',new WebAppInfo('soccerfixtures.betfair.com','site.soccerfixtures.betfair.com?ti=14'));

domainManager.addApplication('greyhoundstodayscard',new WebAppInfo('greyhoundstodayscard.betfair.com','site.greyhoundstodayscard.betfair.com?ti=15'));

domainManager.addApplication('darts',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?ti=3503'));

domainManager.addApplication('greyhounds',new WebAppInfo('greyhounds.betfair.com','site.greyhounds.betfair.com?ti=4339'));

domainManager.addApplication('snooker',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?ti=6422'));

domainManager.addApplication('americanfootball',new WebAppInfo('americanfootball.betfair.com','site.americanfootball.betfair.com?ti=6423'));

domainManager.addApplication('baseball',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?ti=7511'));

domainManager.addApplication('basketball',new WebAppInfo('basketball.betfair.com','site.basketball.betfair.com?ti=7522'));

domainManager.addApplication('icehockey',new WebAppInfo('icehockey.betfair.com','site.icehockey.betfair.com?ti=7524'));

domainManager.addApplication('australianrules',new WebAppInfo('australianrules.betfair.com','site.australianrules.betfair.com?ti=61420'));

domainManager.addApplication('volleyball',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?ti=998917'));

domainManager.addApplication('gaelicgames',new WebAppInfo('gaelicgames.betfair.com','site.gaelicgames.betfair.com?ti=2152880'));

domainManager.addApplication('politics',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?ti=2378961'));

domainManager.addApplication('toteirl',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?toteID=IRL'));

domainManager.addApplication('toteuk',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?toteID=UK'));

domainManager.addApplication('tote',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?toteID=UK'));

domainManager.addApplication('toteaus',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?toteID=AUS'));

domainManager.addApplication('totersa',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?toteID=RSA'));

domainManager.addApplication('toteusa',new WebAppInfo('sports.betfair.com','site.sports.betfair.com?toteID=USA'));

domainManager.productName = productName;
return domainManager;
})();
// Required backwards compatibility
top.dMgr = top.domainManager;

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document.write('style type="text/css"#NoScriptAlert {display:none}/style');
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body class="forum betfair GBR en generic"
div id="heading"
diviframe src="/backwardsCompatibilityHeader/index.html" name="header" height="0" width="0" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"/iframe/div
div id="navAccountContainer" class="img_login_baseline_border_gif"

div id="navigation"
div id="globalNavigation"
ul id="globalLinks"
li id="openaccount"a class="link managedWindow autoscroll(true) statusBar(true) width(738) height(700)" target="openAcc" href="https://account.betfair.com/account-web/registerAccount.html?origin=GOAALL"Open an Account/a/li
li id="mycasinoaccount"a class="link" target="myCasinoAcc" href="http://site.casino.betfair.com/TransferHistory.do?page=1&menu=transferhistory"My Casino Account/a/li
li id="mygamesaccount"a class="link" target="myGamesAcc" href="http://site.games.betfair.com/account/MyAccount.do?tabID=1"My Games Account/a/li
li id="myarcadeaccount"a class="link" target="myArcadeAcc" href="http://site.arcade.betfair.com/portal/?action=GoHist&sizeX=800&sizeY=600"My Arcade Account/a/li

li id="myaccount"a class="link" target="myAccount" href="http://accountservices.betfair.com/myaccount/account/MyAccount.do"My Account/a/li
li id="aboutus"a class="link managedWindow width(788) height(500) autoscroll(true)" target="aboutUs" href="http://forum.betfair.com/aboutUs/"About Us/a/li
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h1 class="img_logo_gif" title="betfair Forum"betfair Forum/h1
ul id="productNavigation"

li id="wwwTab" class="first"a href="http://www.betfair.com"Home/a/li
li id="sportsTab"a href="http://sports.betfair.com"Sports/a/li
li id="soccerTab"a href="http://soccer.betfair.com"Football/a/li
li id="horseracingTab"a href="http://horseracing.betfair.com"Horse Racing/a/li
li id="casinoTab"a href="http://casino.betfair.com"Casino/a/li
li id="pokerTab"a href="http://poker.betfair.com"Poker/a/li

li id="gamesTab"a href="http://games.betfair.com"Exchange Games/a/li
li id="arcadeTab"a href="http://arcade.betfair.com"Arcade/a/li
li id="financialsTab"a href="http://financials.betfair.com"Financials/a/li
li id="forumTab"a href="http://forum.betfair.com"Forum/a/li
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div id="account" class="loginStatePending"
div id="loginMessages"

p class="loginMessage"
span id="livePricesLogin"For latest prices login.../span
span id="registeredUserName"/span
span id="livePricesDeposit"- For latest prices deposit.../span
/p
div id="livePricesHelp"
div id="livePricesHelpHeader"
div id="livePricesHelpClose" class="img_icon_close_gif link"/div

/div
pOnly customers logged into a funded account will be able to view the latest prices./p
pTo find out more please go to our a class="link managedWindow width(788) height(500) autoscroll(true) log(Help.Opening.Account)" target="help" href="http://forum.betfair.com/help/Help.Opening.Account/"help section/a.!-- similar to Header.Live.Prices.Content.Link --/p
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div id="livePricesHelpLaunch" class="linkSuffix link"/div
div id="customerNumberLink"
span id="customerNumberLinkText"Mem. No./span

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div id="customerNumberPopup"
div id="customerNumberPopupHeader"
div id="customerNumberPopupClose" class="img_icon_close_gif link"/div
/div
div id="customerNumberPopupContent"
strongMembership Number:/strongbr
span id="customerNumberValue"/spanbr

strongNote:/strong You may be asked for your Membership brNumber when you contact Betfair Helpdesk. /div

/div
/div
div id="overlay" class="overlay"
div id="processingLogin" class="overlayText"Processing your login.../div
div id="processingLogout" class="overlayText"Processing your logout.../div
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div id="userLogin"
div id="userLoginForm"
form action="#" id="loginForm" method="post" target="loginChannel" autocomplete="off"
table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
tbody
tr
tdlabel for="username"username/label/td
td colspan="2"input id="username" type="text" class="text" name="username" value="" //td

/tr
tr
tdlabel for="password"password/label/td
tdinput id="password" type="password" class="text" name="password" value="" //td
td
input id="login" type="submit" class="button link" value=" Login " /
a id="security" target="securityMsg" class="managedWindow width(400) height(350)" href="http://content.betfair.com/misc/?product=portal&sWhichKey=Security&brand=betfair&region=GBR&locale=en" title="Security"Security/a
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/tr
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/table
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iframe name="loginChannel" id="loginChannel" src="/blank.html"/iframe
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div id="loginLinks"
a id="passwordReminder" class="managedWindow link width(788) height(500)" target="forgottenPassword" href="https://accountservices.betfair.com/account/forgotpassword/ForgottenPassword.do?method=initialise"Forgot your password?/a

 | 
a id="joinNow" class="managedWindow link autoscroll(true) statusBar(true) width(738) height(700)" target="openAcc" href="https://account.betfair.com/account-web/registerAccount.html?origin=GOAALL"Join Now/a
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div id="userAccount"
div class="accountRow"
input id="toggleFundsDisplay" type="checkbox" value="" class="inline toggleFundsDisplay" /
div id="fundsRow" class="inline accountBalance"

Total available: span id="totalFunds" class="hidden"loading/span
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input id="depositFunds" class="button link" type="button" value="Deposit" /
/div
div class="accountRow"
div id="refreshBalance" class="img_icon_refresh_gif link inline hidden" title="Refresh" /div
div class="inline accountBalance marketFundsText wallet" /div
input id="transferFunds" class="button link" type="button" disabled="disabled" value="Transfer" /

/div
div class="accountRow"
div id="walletHelp" class="img_icon_help_gif link inline"/div
div class="inline accountBalance marketFundsText wallet" /div
input id="logout" class="button link" type="button" value="Logout" /
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ul id="subNavigationLinks"
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Is that just the source Novo?