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Jan Dembowski
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Would I be making the right choice of going with WordPress?
Yes, of course. (This is a WordPress support forum after all.) 😉
My idea was to buy a html5 website template or a WordPress template
In my humble opinion: wait. That’s good advice for any purchases by the way.
There are many freely available themes here and some of them are amazing.
Rather than making a purchase (yet) create a WordPress installation and choose a theme from here. Or use the Twenty Eleven theme.
If you want to customize that theme, them make a child theme of it and start customizing away. You can leverage your past experience that way.
You’ll get your feet wet in WordPress and will have a better understanding when/if you decide to make that purchase.
Note: I use a purchased theme myself. When I have questions about it I don’t post them here, I post them on my vendors support forum (which is part of the purchase). Here we are not equipped to support commercial themes.
I have a main website and 4 other sub domains, which are seperate url’s. Can I install WordPress without affecting the existing sites? I guess I can have a Blog setup for each site in the 1 WordPress?
Thanks for your very useful comments.
Drachsi
Yes, you can install WP without impacting your other sites.
If you want to have a site for each of them, you could use Multisite, but it is a little more complicated.
Thanks for the post. What is “Multisite”?
Drachsi
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
Normally with WordPress, the software runs one single site. If you want to run additional sites on the same server the you install multiple copies of the software in different directories.
But with multisite, you install one copy of the software but configure it so that there are multiple web sites. One copy but multiple sites.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
It’s a little advance so I suggest that you start with a regular WordPress installation first. It may save you some effort for now. 😉
Many thanks for your support, I will following your advice.
Regards
Drachsi
How can I use a web template from another developer?
Yes, I have the same question like DR Lrac.. How can I use a web template from the another developer ?
Regards,
Andy L.
This topic is resolved, so don’t expect a lot of help.
Answer: Buy the theme, upload it to your server, activate it, configure it, have a beer.