A little advice & ressurance for a newbie

  • Hi all, I am new to WordPress (& php) and have finally got round to installing it and making a first post and generally exploring the admin area, etc. Looking at the documentation on the WordPress site, it looks like I am going to be spending a few days really getting to grips with how to use and customise the way my site displays, so I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to give me a few pointers to be mulling over while I’m learning.

    The site that I am working on is a sexual health information site where the homepage is practically a news page, so I thought that using WordPress would allow my client to regularly update the site herself using the simple admin area without having to bug me ever ten minutes ?? As well as the news page, the site will have many pages of information on sexual health issues.

    Now I need the site to look like a ‘site’ and not a ‘blog’, and I have come up with a concept design accordingly. With this in mind there are a couple of points that I was wondering about:

    1) If I have already built my homepage in html & css and I just wanted to have an area of the html page as a ‘news’ area, would it be as simple as replacing the index page with my html… cool, I just actually placed the php code from index.php into my homepage, then changed my homepage from an html to a php file and it has worked! I can’t believe I just answered my own post before it’s even finished…

    2) If anyone out there with experience of WordPress is reading this, may I ask how would you go about making a site that has a lot of links to information pages? Would you simply build each page in html and link it all up like a regular site, or is there a clever method of storing and displaying information using WordPress?

    I think that’s it. I think basically I would like to have a site that has a news section on the homepage that my client can update easily (powered by WordPress) and the rest of the site to function as a regular site with regular text information pages that don’t need updating and managing so often – and basically I would like a little reassurance from seasoned WordPress users that this will be possible to acheive with WordPress ??

    Thanks for reading

    Kelly

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  • Thread Starter soundproofskin

    (@soundproofskin)

    Hmm, just thinking though – I change the style of the index html, that doesn’t carry through to the rest of the site… are there a bunch of particular php files that I should edit so that, for example, the archives, post page, about me page all has the same html as my homepage?

    Thanks in advance!

    Kelly

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