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1. creationtwentytwo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi there everyone,

   So I've decided to install WordPress to host my personal website which will primarily be used as a portfolio.

   I'm posting here as like I mentioned, I am a complete beginner when it comes to WordPress and while I've read bits about using a kind of CMS to host websites, I must admit I've never actually put it into practice. So really, I just need a bit of advice on what I'm likely to need to know before I get started and while I'm developing my site.

   I work mainly in graphics and occasionally with the web, but as much more a designer than a developer. I know my way around XHTML and CSS fine, and have learned PHP to a mid-beginner level I guess you could say. I'm comfortable using includes and building relatively simple functions as well as a very basic knowledge of mySQL. Certainly any advance database calls or heavy PHP programming is out of my depth.

   What I want to achieve is a probably a 3 page website, an About page with contact info, a Portfolio page, and a Blog. Now the part I'm not sure about:

   I would love to have a couple of content areas that display on all pages that contain thumbnails of recent projects that automatically updates as and when I add a project to my portfolio. I guess in a similar way to how blogs display recent post boxes. Also a Flickr pool box wouldn't be bad either if that's possible.

   So with all that in mind, is my level of ability likely to cover all bases, I know you haven't seen what I can do, but from what I outlined, is this going to be a non-starter or should I be able to accomplish my goals?

   Also, I know the Codex is very extensive but are there any other places I should check out that may help me along the way?

   Many thanks in advance.

   Tom

2. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The Codex and searching the help forums have been very helpful to me (I started out knowing nothing about xhtml and php).

   Here are my favorite Codex pages:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference

   Also check for plugins that may do what you want:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

   Although I have Dreamweaver, I just use a code editor (BBEdit) to edit my theme files (code coloring is a very helpful feature) and a text editor to write my posts offline.

3. seahawknationblog
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   First off whatever you do, use linux as your server, i had nothing but problems with our site using IS7 windows server, all my problems went away as soon as i migrated to linux, so if that helps great!

   http://seahawknationblog.com is our site and we love wordpress when it's running good, this is 2.7 which is leaps and bounds better than 2.6!!

4. creationtwentytwo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks for the reply and the links.

   It's good to know it's all possible and the plugins section does indeed look like it will contain things I will need.

   As for the text editor, I'm a big fan of Coda. I tend to stay away from DreamWeaver ;p

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