Is WordPress the way I should be going?
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I’ve just signed up to wordpress.com and wordpress.org (though I haven’t actually downloaded the software). I’ve also completed a Lynda.com course on wordpress 2.7.
I have a reasonable working knowledge of html and css. I’ve been asked to design and build a website that contains a blog. The initial question I had was should I build a conventional site using CSS that has a link to WordPress for the blog section or can I build the entire site using WordPress?
The design requires a header, horizontal menu bar with drop down sub menus, 3 columns and a footer. Whereas it’s fine for the blog to have the left and right column having fixed widget content, this is not how I want the main body of the site to work. When publishing individual pages, I want to be able to vary the content in all three columns.
So for example:
Content page type 1: Column 1 has a quote, column two has a ul with li’s containing thumbnail pictures of books, and a short synopsis. Column three has the name of the publisher and ISBN number to the right of each item in the centre column.
Content type 2: Column 1 has a different quote, column two has a full synopsis of the book and column 3 has a larger image of the book with the publishers details below it, a link to Amazon to buy and a number of other links to other relevant pages such as an interactive test.
Content page type 3: Column 1 has a different quote, column 2 has an interactive test using forms and radio buttons. Column 3 has associated limks on the subjects relevant to the test.
I’ve been messing around with wordpress.com themes, altering css, and had some promising results but found that effectively I’m limited to changing the central column alone. I’ve started browsing for themes that might do what I want but I get the impression that they are all prioritised to blog usage. There are thousands to choose from and I’m wondering if I’m wasting my time.
It’s been suggested that I should be able to do pretty much anything with WordPress and I am impressed so far with the CMS and the access to updating CSS, so if it is possible, I would like to take this route. The question is, where do I go from here? I need someone to point me in the right direction rather than me spend days reading notes and tutorials that don’t answer my basic question, as ideally, this site needs to be up and working by the end of the first week in March.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Simon
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