Help! Using WP with my own site design…

  • Resolved drewster

    (@drewster)


    17 years, 11 months ago

    Hi everyone

    I’m utterly new to WordPress but it’s installed well and I’m raring to go.

    What I want to know is this: I am designing my own site in HTML and want to power it using WordPress.

    Is this easy to do? I’m confused over the whole ‘upload your own template’ thing – does this mean I upload my own HTML page and that’ll do it?

    Sorry if this sounds completely dumb, but I am trying to get to grips with it and any help would be appreciated.

    In a nutshell: how to I integrate my own site design with WordPress?

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  • silkjaer

    (@silkjaer)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    I wrote this article, it might help you out 🙂 -> http://theundersigned.net/2006/05/from-xhtmlcss-to-wordpress/

    andymike

    (@andymike)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    That’s funny I wrote a similar article two days ago:

    Convert XHTML/CSS To WordPress

    silkjaer

    (@silkjaer)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Yea i saw that 🙂

    Thread Starter drewster

    (@drewster)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Fantastic, thanks very much people. I got really into it last night but then it got late and I had to sleep!!

    Back at it tonight. I thought the best thing to do would be to build my site design first of all, and then follow the steps on your pages.

    It’s gonna take a little time but I’ll keep going. No doubt I’ll have “issues” but I’ll definitely be asking for more help!! 🙂

    Thread Starter drewster

    (@drewster)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    I’m having a nightmare with CSS 🙁

    Normally I don’t use it for the layout, only for fonts, and trying to get my head around it is causing me stress already! Is it necessary to have a complete CSS built layout to be able to integrate WordPress? I really feel like giving up with it already 🙁

    I have my site, built in HTML, but now I am trying to re-build the same site using CSS, if that makes sense? I don’t really know what I’m doing…. *sigh*

    silkjaer

    (@silkjaer)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    You can build it with inline styling, but I prefer to split markup and style up..

    Thread Starter drewster

    (@drewster)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    See, the terms ‘inline styling’, ‘split markup and style up’ just confuse me even more.

    I hand code my HTML, what more does a boy have to do?! lol

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    The codex gives you a wealth of info in pretty easy to understand terms on theme development. Also, search it for whatever – it’s really well documented.
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

    Thread Starter drewster

    (@drewster)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    With the old ASP content management I used to use, it worked like this:

    I had my HTML page. I added the relevant ASP code into the page where I wanted the posts displayed etc. Then saved it as index.asp, for example.

    I wish it was that simple with WordPress. I will get there in the end, though.

    andymike

    (@andymike)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Using CSS is your best bet. It will benefit your site tremendously in the long run. Start searching for some basic tutorials or even go to the bookstore. I would recommend Stylin With CSS by Wyke-Smith.

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