New to WordPress; can this comp be executed in wordpress?
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I’ve been working for many years with a small team making mainly static brochure sites on the web, OR working on web application design with a few real developers. I’ve done the visual by drawing pretty pages in photoshop and handing them off to two guys who can make anything work (given enough time and money.)
Well, the open-source CMS movement really seems like the right way to go now for so much of the web, and I’ve had fun creating my own blogs lightly customizing templates, so I figured for this site we’d use wordpress or drupal rather than building a crappy custom CMS in php/mysql.
The problem is, my workflow is still stupid, I”m still drawing pages in photoshop THEN i will hand them to someone who has no WP experience (but lots of front end coding experience) to try to implement.
I have this visual comp:
http://homepage.mac.com/ejayo/CEA_hompage_comps/comp5.html
I thought it would be trivial to have this single column of links and short descriptions which would link to a blog page which would be one of the top level nav items.
I”ve been thinking we’d build most of the brochure as a static template (no reason to let the clients mess around and uglify that stuff) and just have them updating the blog section (or maybe a few sections; events, news, blog, etc) but I want to surface that stuff as short links on the homepage in a single right hand column.
I see that wordpress has this idea of a static homepage, but I don’t want a totally static homepage. I just dont’ want a central galley chronological blog type thing, either. Seems like I can work with the ‘recent posts’ sidebar element to approximate something–yes?
Finally, my question:
1. Is this idea doable?
2. How hard will it be for a good developer to learn how to do it?
3. How hard would it be for someone who knew what they were doing to do it?
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Looks like something you could not do here at wordpress.COM
We have limited templates, and limited access to changing them.Check out the self-hosted wordpress.ORG
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1 -
Thanks!
I actually knew that, which is why I’ve been futzing around on the unix command line and gotten WP installed on my local machine to see if I could customize themes myself using Theme Dreamer. The short answer seems to be I can’t, I don’t know enough, but getting MAMP set up was an interesting challenge, and I can now install any themes or plug-ins on my local machine I want.
I also installed a version of WP at oneonone hosting (they didn’t have a single button install, so I had to actually edit the php config file and set up the MySQL database using their web control panel thingy.
So I know that I can install and create custom versions of WP–for free. (Very cool.) Now what i’m trying to figure out, as a visual designer who has avoided code as much as possible, is how to proceed with my client; I just DON’T want to promise something that my developer can’t actually do. My developer isn’t very interested in learning WP (though he is a GREAT front end coder, his ap dev experience is with more, ah, big dev stuff, (Java and such). He abandoned the php/mysql world after a disasterous off-shore experience.
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Our free blogs don’t allow access to much modification: only CSS.
Wordpress.ORG has their own forums, and you’ll likely get more useful info over there:
http://wordpress.org/support/Sorry that I forgot to post that link earlier.
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