Title: Need Direction
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Need Direction

 *  [yodieyoyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yodieyoyo/)
 * (@yodieyoyo)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-direction/)
 * I would appreciate some direction with the following. Basically, I develop websites
   using HTML in Notepad. I know… I’m a dinosaur. I don’t have desire to upgrade(
   to Dreamweaver, etc.) but I want to develop a site that can be easily edited 
   by non-technical folks. I was told that WordPress was the way to go. Is that 
   right? Second, is there a book or a website that can get me started in this direction?
   Designing the website (using Photoshop, etc.) and then doing the code in Notepad
   is easy for but I simply don’t know how to make it “editable” by other people.
   Obviously, I can’t tell people to go into the HTML and find the this or that 
   tag and etc…. etc… I’ve been told this is difficult but I think given the right
   book or something I could figure it out. Where can I go to learn how to do this?
   Every time I look for “WordPress tutorials” it’s about doing a blog. I don’t 
   want to do a blog. Simply a website that is editable by all. Does that make sense?
   Would love help! Thanks in advance.

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 *  [shirazdrum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shirazdrum/)
 * (@shirazdrum)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-direction/#post-2193794)
 * WordPress is as easy as it gets. You make your site, assign the people who you
   want as editors and that’s it. they can change whatever they want.
 * Don’t worry about the blog thing, you can make all pages look like a static site.
   They won’t be pure html, they’ll rely on php codes to show the html content but
   that shouldn’t worry you.
 *  [blog596](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blog596/)
 * (@blog596)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-direction/#post-2193861)
 * when you say
 * > but I simply don’t know how to make it “editable” by other people.
 *  what exactly do you mean ??
    do you want the people to edit the html itself 
   or update the page contents? but yet still keeping the same layout for the website???
   if the latter and you want a static page site like a home page, contact page 
   etc you can still do it with wordpress. wordpress can be CMS system also ..
 *  Thread Starter [yodieyoyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yodieyoyo/)
 * (@yodieyoyo)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-direction/#post-2193883)
 * Thanks for the responses. Let me clarify. I don’t want people to update the html,
   only the content yet keeping the same layout. How do I get started? I want to
   do the html and then be able to send the non-technical people a link to where
   they can go to update content.

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 * Last reply from: [yodieyoyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yodieyoyo/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-direction/#post-2193883)
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