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1. dragontheory
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Please forgive the "noobness" but I am totally lost.

   I am a client side only XHTML/CSS/JS dude who has zero back-end experience. I am making a purely static (everything is hard coded - no includes) valid XHTML site. Just read this article at Idesignstudios.com and now want the bring my site into WP to take advantage of the CMS. Where the heck do I start? The home page is not a traditional WP layout. How can I do this without loosing all the work I have done? Oh did I mention this was due last week? Please help. Thanks in advance.

2. dragontheory
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Oh I should mention that I have an instance of WP running. It is just where to start editing?

3. dragontheory
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

4. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It is just where to start editing?

   wordpress uses themes. If you want to style your wordpress install to look like something else, then you edit your theme files.

   This is fairly straightforward information, easily located and expounded upon within the documentation.

5. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   These may help:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates_Hierarchy

   WordPress need not have a traditional blog layout.

6. dragontheory
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hey, wanted to get back to everyone to say thanks. Got started (dev site) and am now dealing with detailed issues like TinyMCE inserting extranious code. Decided to ditch TinyMCE for Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress and so far so good. Still have a lot to do. I am sure I will have many more questions. Thanks again.

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