ejayoI'm a visual designer (I draw interfaces with photoshop and work with developers to make both brochures and web applications) but my new client seems like a great candidate for wordpress or drupal.
I've installed WP on my own machine and at oneonone, and I've been fiddling with templates and plug-ins. It's so cool! I'm having a terrible time figuring out the workflow here; I'm used to doing either pretty static visual brochures, or quick and dirty web app interfaces with a slightly more slick front end for the web consumer.
So I've showed the client this homepage comp:
http://homepage.mac.com/ejayo/CEA_hompage_comps/comp5.html
I've thought that it would be relatively easy to have a real developer use WP to populate maybe one or two of the top level sections with content managed, blog style galleys.
My problem is the home page, which I've comped as having a static main column, and a dynamic sidebar with links to the content managed areas.
I've assumed that my developer could just build the static brochure as a static brochure, and just punch some holes in the design and have content managed stuff in the holes; I'm open to the idea of using pages and content managing the whole thing, but the client has hired me as a visual designer, and they've signed off on the visual, so if it's hugely difficult to do that, it's not a priority.
I know this is a stupid way to work and I'm trying to get clients to work with me around functionality and content hierarchies and not focusing narrowly on look and feel and visual presentation--but this is where I'm coming from.
1. Is this doable as comped.
2. Is my idea of a static template and a few content manged areas stupid.
3. Should I fire my developer (who isn't real interested in learning WP) and hire someone over the web to do this work?
