Is WordPress right for what I want?

  • Dazzathedrummer

    (@dazzathedrummer)


    12 years ago

    Hi,

    I’m looking to write a website to promote my services as a musician and I’m going to base my design on something like this…..

    http://www.petergabriel.com

    I’m pretty good with HTML and php, I’ve created basic dynamic sites before from scratch and im hoping that by using WordPress it will mean that I have better flexibility and I won’t have to write a back end.

    Using the above website as an example, presumably I just have to create or modify a theme to give me the layout that I want with CSS and then populate each box of info with a php query that is set to pull in a relevant post?

    Im just asking if this is right for what I want before I go ahead and learn a bit more about CSS and WordPress.

    Thanks,

    Darren

    [ moderated, link fixed. ]

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  • Thread Starter Dazzathedrummer

    (@dazzathedrummer)

    12 years ago

    For some reason I couldn’t get the link to work properly – I’ll add HTML to my list of things to brush up on haha!

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    12 years ago

    Unfortunately, the linked page is down currently and just shows a maintenance page

    But based on your description, WP is great for the job

    If you can create or modify a theme to match your needs, you have a great head start

    The content handling can be done many ways, queries works, post types, sort by custom taxonomies, etc

    So yeah, it’ll work out – once you get a feel for how WP works, and what you can do, you should have no trouble!

    Thread Starter Dazzathedrummer

    (@dazzathedrummer)

    12 years ago

    Thanks for the response – I’ve been digging around and got to a point where I’m faced with a few decisions before I make a start…..

    Given that I’m aiming at developing a ‘website’ style site that uses wordpress for CMS (as opposed to a ‘blog’ style site), i’m not sure if I should…

    a, Create a fully independent website and populate it with query includes from the wordpress db.
    b, Pick a theme that I like the look of and edit it if need be.
    c, create a totally blank theme and write a site around it.

    I guess option ‘a’ would be the most work intensive and would bypass a lot of the wordpress functionality – I would simply be using WP as a sql database.

    Option ‘b’ would probably get me going quicker, but, for a decent site I would probably have to fork out for a premium theme – and I would have to manipulate it myself to get a unique feel or just leave it as is.

    Option ‘c’ I guess, would give me the benefits of total WP functionality, but I would have to get to grips with WP coding.

    What do people generally do?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years ago

    Options b or c.

    for a decent site I would probably have to fork out for a premium theme

    Not necessarily. If you are prepared to carry out some tweaking, then a decent free theme should be all that you need to get started.

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