February 3, 201016 yr I am about to start a site in HTML form as advised... and then adapt to Wordpress theme... before I start - is there anything I should not do?..... or can I go ahead and float all I like or AP all I like and use Spry menus etc...? I will do a simple Wordpress theme to get the drift... I'm ahead of myself a bit.... What about CSS designs from www.oswd.org (Open Source Web Design) - freely download a design and strip out the code for Wordpress...!? I've had a look and I think I'd rather do my own thing... to be truly the 'web-master'!
February 3, 201016 yr I find it time saving to download this theme, which is the bare bone minimum of wordpress, and then build it from there up, adding HTML, images and CSS. I think this way is much easier for newbies since instead of building the HTML and then putting in the unfamiliar wordpress content, you get the hard part out of the way, and then build the HTML/CSS that you already know. And to answer your question, you can do any floating, sprites and other techniques as you would normally use in any other website. Cheers!
February 3, 201016 yr Author I find it time saving to download this theme, which is the bare bone minimum of wordpress, and then build it from there up, adding HTML, images and CSS. I think this way is much easier for newbies since instead of building the HTML and then putting in the unfamiliar wordpress content, you get the hard part out of the way, and then build the HTML/CSS that you already know. And to answer your question, you can do any floating, sprites and other techniques as you would normally use in any other website. Cheers! Brilliant! Thanks... I will see how I go... er .... all things being equal and considering the fact I do understand CSS and HTML via "The Missing Manuals" how long roughly would it take for a basic site at a methodical plod!?.... (medium piece of string!) One more thing sir, can Flash sideshows work in Wordpress - I downloaded a slideshow or two from FlashTuning which don't seem to, like php... maybe a daft question but still...! or perhaps could you suggest a site with slideshows that will work with Wordpress!
February 3, 201016 yr Javascript slideshows such as jquery based ones and a flash slideshow called cu3er definitely work in wordpress
February 3, 201016 yr I like to use jQuery Cycle. You can check it out on my site! I think you can get a basic wp theme going in about 5-10 hours, depending on how complicated you'd like it to be.
February 3, 201016 yr As I said to you in a PM, it's very hard to explain how it all works to you when you have absolutely no CMS starting point to explain from. Get stuck in, have a go with a basic theme and once you have Wordpress setup and doing something like what you want it to you will begin to understand what Wordpress is capable of and how. Whether you start by building a theme, or start by playing with someone else's it doesn't really matter, the first thing you need to do really is actually install Wordpress and take a look at the software itself! At the moment you're kinda asking how to make spaghetti bolognaise before you've figured out what a saucepan is!
February 3, 201016 yr Author As I said to you in a PM, it's very hard to explain how it all works to you when you have absolutely no CMS starting point to explain from. Get stuck in, have a go with a basic theme and once you have Wordpress setup and doing something like what you want it to you will begin to understand what Wordpress is capable of and how. Whether you start by building a theme, or start by playing with someone else's it doesn't really matter, the first thing you need to do really is actually install Wordpress and take a look at the software itself! At the moment you're kinda asking how to make spaghetti bolognaise before you've figured out what a saucepan is! Gotcha... locating saucepan....!
February 3, 201016 yr Hehe, I second what ErisDS said. You've got to get your hands dirty in Wordpress, it's really fun!
February 3, 201016 yr yep, the best thing you can do is just get stuck in. More importantly make mistakes and learn to solve them - only then will you really start to learn
February 14, 201016 yr Thank you so much for pointing me in the direction of Starkers. I am not skilled in building WordPress themes, and have to build a relatively complex one in the coming days. I am sure this will be a huge help.
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