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  2. WordPress 3.0

    in Beginners Web Design

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    Does anyone know any good websites to learn how to build WordPress 3.0 specific themes from scratch? Do you build the theme in WordPress directly or do you build HTML pages first and then create the different components (header, footer...)?

  3. Shopping Carts

    in Advanced Web Design

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    I am new to Web Designing and had a question about shopping carts. I was wondering what Shopping Carts do you recommend learning for someone like me (newbie). I've taken a look at the wordpress plug-in but it seems a bit limited. There are open source carts like oscommerce and zencart. Do you recommend these open source carts?

  4. Wordpress Plug-ins?

    in Beginners Web Design

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    Hi everyone,

     

    I'm a newbie, I'm learning Wordpress at the moment and have learned how to create custom templates. I was wondering how designers design wordpress for clients. IS there a list of must have plug-ins that you install to add functionality or ease of designing in your wordpress projects?

  5. Wordpress

    in Beginners Web Design

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    I don't use any special plugins nor do I modify the back end. You can use WordPress as is. Here's an example of a site using WordPress as a CMS that I just launched last week: http://tinyurl.com/yksu4lt .

     

    Have you ever looked at the dashboard of WP? If not, maybe you could sign up for a free wordpress.com account just to get your feet wet. Either that or you could install the default on your own server somewhere.

     

    To make it act like a CMS, just go to Settings > Reading > and then select a "static" page to be your front page. Then select whichever page you want to hold your blog. Of course, these pages should be created first before you can set them in the Reading settings.

     

    So, on the site that I linked above, the front page is set to "Welcome to .... " and the blog page is set to "Blog".

     

    To edit or add static pages, you would go to Pages > Edit or Add New. These would be like the regular pages of a website.

     

    To edit or add blog posts, you would go to Posts > Edit or Add New.

     

     

    Suzie, your site looks great. I've taken a look a wordpress and learned how to create custom templates, now I love it. The problem that I'm finding out is that I'm a more of a coder than a designer. Let me ask you, for the footer area where you have the newsletter area "ENEWS and Updates", is that a plugin? Do you save the user's email address in the database? Did you code that you self?

  6. Wordpress

    in Beginners Web Design

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    I don't use any special plugins nor do I modify the back end. You can use WordPress as is. Here's an example of a site using WordPress as a CMS that I just launched last week: http://tinyurl.com/yksu4lt .

     

    Have you ever looked at the dashboard of WP? If not, maybe you could sign up for a free wordpress.com account just to get your feet wet. Either that or you could install the default on your own server somewhere.

     

    To make it act like a CMS, just go to Settings > Reading > and then select a "static" page to be your front page. Then select whichever page you want to hold your blog. Of course, these pages should be created first before you can set them in the Reading settings.

     

    So, on the site that I linked above, the front page is set to "Welcome to .... " and the blog page is set to "Blog".

     

    To edit or add static pages, you would go to Pages > Edit or Add New. These would be like the regular pages of a website.

     

    To edit or add blog posts, you would go to Posts > Edit or Add New.

     

    So clients are only able to edit the "blog" page? Everything else is static?

  7. Wordpress

    in Beginners Web Design

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    What advantages does it offer over creating a static website?

     

    I'm leaving in a few mins' date=' so I don't have time to post links to tutorials (I'll do it later), but the #1 reason why I develop my clients' websites in WordPress (or other CMS) is because I want to give them the ability to log in and edit their content on their own. I don't have the time to perform small edits to all my clients' sites and this allows them to do minor changes themselves. If my client has a static website, chances are they don't know code and I would have to do all the updates for them.[/quote']

     

    Susie,

     

    I was thinking of using Wordpress the same way, not as a blog tool but for full websites. Do you modify or use a plugin to make wordpress act more like a CMS for your clients. From what I see, with Wordpress you can control your blog, but what if you want to give clients the ability to edit content on all their pages. I've seen hints that some coders modify the back end of wordpress to create their own admin panel, is this true?

  8. Wordpress

    in Beginners Web Design

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    I've noticed that Wordpress is very popular with web designers. I understand it is a blog tool' date=' but why is it so popular to create websites?[/quote']

     

    Mainly because it's very easy to set up and maintain, also very user friendly and got popular fast among people that maybe did not have the knowledge to publish their works online in a "professional" manner.

     

    With years the Wordpress api has become a lot more powerful and today you basically can use it as already stated in a reply as a content cms for any page layout, if you got the imagination then you can get it working. So why it's so popular is mainly because of the blog hype that brought it into its golden age, and soon spread to other areas thanks to the team investing in further developing it, not to forget it's a very easy api to learn and use, mostly thanks to it's modularity.

     

    And if you don't feel for wordpress you could check out joomla or other videly used CMS:s.

     

    What advantages does it offer over creating a static website? Are there any good links or tutorials on how to use Wordpress in this way? Thanks for the replies.

  11. I'm lost in PHP

    in Beginners Web Design

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    I'm trying to get into PHP. I'm learning about basic php and OOP. There are so many articles that I read that suggest to learn different PHP applications like PEAR, Smarty, or Wordpress. What do I focus on? What do developers use on a daily basis? What would best help my PHP skills?

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