Help a newbie :)

  • asennai

    (@asennai)


    18 years, 5 months ago

    Hello all,

    I am really new to web designing and am working on my first website. Instead of taking the usual track, I decided to challenge myself and actually make the site as unique as my skills and imagination can allow me to be. The site is for a photographer and I wanted to enable blogging on the site and was advised to check out wordpress.org I basically want to enable the client to have a customized blog (there is a “postcard” theme throughout the site and wanted the blog template to fit within that theme). I am sure many have asked this question before, but here it goes: how do I do this?

    Thanks in advance

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    WordPress can really ‘manage’ the whole site.

    Take a look at Codex and get a feel for WordPress.

    Resources:
    Getting_Started_with_WordPress
    Category:Design_and_Layout

    Examples of real sites:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/Famous_Blogs
    http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/WP_as_CMS

    cwoodside

    (@cwoodside)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Asennai,
    That’s a pretty large question to answer. I would however suggest one of the following:

    1. Search around for an existing theme that may have a similar look to what you have currently created for the photographers site.

    2. Design a mock-up of the blog section for your website, then create a fully working HTML based page for this mock-up. I would suggest not even worrying about wordpress to start, just get all your HTML and CSS worked out.

    After the base HTML page is done (and tested cross-browsers), you could start focusing on WordPress integration. This way instead of tackling everything at once your breaking things down into a more modular approach.

    Hope this helps to get you started,
    Chet

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