Dreamweaver or WordPress.org/com?

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  charmingnathan2 · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 4:59 am

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  Hello everyone,

  I hope you can help me out here, because I am one VERY confused novice Web Designer!

  I have already put together a basic site using Dreamweaver MX, am planning a major upgrade and after carrying out online research everyone seems to think that WordPress.org/com is the next big thing for Web Design. So I uploaded to my server.

  One requirement I have is to have a custom picture for my header with what’s known as “Hotspots” in Dreamweaver within images places on the picture (clickable areas one can use to visit another link), so a picture on a picture in effect, etc.

  Now, with Dreamweaver, this is basically a case of drag and drop, but within WordPress, it seems I have to immediately start amending code??? Also to crop pictures to go in the header. the crop facility seems to cut the pictures as it sees fit, not as I want them…?

  This isn’t specifically a support question as such, as in how do I do this, or am I right that I have to amend the code, but is WordPress really the right way to go for me, at this stage of my knowledge – I know basic html tags, but that’s just about it.

  My initial impression is that WordPress is great for beginners IF you just want a blogging site, but if you want a ‘proper’ Website, a bit more knowledge is needed – and certainly more than one would need to achieve the same results in Dreamweaver MX.

  Am I right, wrong, or barking up the wrong software package?

  Come to that should I have installed WordPress from the .org or .com site? If I got it wrong, is it easy to un and re-install? I think I downloaded from the .com site.

  Many thanks for your help and insights, much appreciated.