Title: Help a newbie :)
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help a newbie :)

 *  [asennai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asennai/)
 * (@asennai)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-a-newbie/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-a-newbie/#post-659315)
 * WordPress can really ‘manage’ the whole site.
 * Take a look at Codex and get a feel for WordPress.
 * Resources:
    [Getting_Started_with_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress)
   [Category:Design_and_Layout](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category:Design_and_Layout)
 * Examples of real sites:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/Famous_Blogs](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/Famous_Blogs)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/WP_as_CMS](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/WP_as_CMS)
 *  [cwoodside](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cwoodside/)
 * (@cwoodside)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-a-newbie/#post-659317)
 * 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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