Thinking of switching to WordPress

If you can code tables, you will have no problem with WordPress. 🙂 Actually I think you’ll find it easier because you use one header.php and footer.php that is repeated for all pages with a site like yours, and then you have the main content area. As well, you link one stylesheet for the whole thing. Much more concise and neat.

But you do run into questions (more than challenges) for some of your pages. WordPress pages have both a visual and get editor, so you can import html straight into the pages.

this article on smashing might give you a little inspiration—

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/15/migrate-existing-website-to-wordpress/

And I found a link for importing yolk into wordpress—

http://neliosoftware.com/from-yola-to-wordpress/

There may be another volunteer that knows Yola, I do not, and can offer more advice. But I did use iWeb and Dreamweaver before and I can tell you that this is much better, more efficient and you’ll find yourself with a lot more options. I did want to offer my advice about your music because I am an ex-performer (comedian) and I’ve done a lot of sites for artist friends that are musicians. Soundcloud is a really great way to go where you not only will be able to organize the music into a very attractive format that will play on all devices but you will also have the benefit of exposure on there for your site as it is so widely used. You can create playlists on Soundcloud and through the short code link them to your website.

As I said, you can probably just strip the html for the pages that you currently use and put them into the test site and see how you like it—via the text editor. And then combine the css into one style.css file.

One of the easiest (and a method i use quite often still) is to do a child theme of an existing theme in the WordPress core. You will then just have to create the header.php, page.php, footer.php and styles.css for your site.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

The WordPress community is really great and there are a lot of tutorials both written and on YouTube so you shouldn’t have trouble getting right into it.

And—there are other music/media players as well including what’s in the WordPress admin. The reason I brought up sound cloud is my clients have been professional artists and want the most exposure they can get. And it is a well known format especially among younger.

All we can suggest is that you browse the themes in http://wordpress.org/themes/ The tag filter may help you narrow down your search to just the themes containing the features that you want. Or try searching for “minimalist” etc. Any additional functionality that you need can then be added via plugins.