Dynamic divs?

Hi there,

I’ve been using wordpress for a while now and am pretty comfortable with theme development, but know I’ve only really scratched the surface.

For the wordpress sites I make I currently make a theme from scratch so that I can style it exactly how I like in CSS and then create the individual pages in the WP admin panel by adding pages. To insert content into the pages I type HTML into the content box of the ‘New Page’ panel. The content box basically forms the content of a div called “main” in index.php or a template file.

This process works well but is slightly labour intensive as the content for every page has to be coded in full.

So, my question is, can I put ‘dynamic divs’ into the index.php or template files? By this I mean, can I place all the structure (i.e. the divs) in the template files, so that I can write ‘shorthand’ in the content box of the New Page panel. Perhaps there is a way of ‘calling’ the divs?

I hope that makes sense… I’m sure there is a relatively simple solution but I’ve tried searching the codex and can’t seem to find the right search term.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
George