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Once only a platform for bloggers, WordPress is gaining popularity as a tool for creating individualized Web sites. WordPress expert Lisa Sabin–Wilson makes it easy for anyone with a basic knowledge of the WordPress software to create a custom site using complimentary technologies including CSS, HTML, and PHP. This easy–to–follow, full–color guide helps you identify the tools and technologies you need to create the site you envision, build a user–friendly navigation system, select colors and layouts, work with existing WordPress themes, and even develop your own theme to personalize your site.
- WordPress offers a versatile tool for building customized Web sites; this full–color book walks you through the process, explains the complimentary technologies involved, and shows you how to select colors, fonts, and themes
- Case studies illustrate the process and the effects that can be achieved
- Shows how to incorporate WordPress templates, graphic design principles, HTML, CSS, and PHP to build a truly one–of–a–kind Web site
If you know how to use WordPress software to create a blog, WordPress Web Design For Dummies will enable you to quickly and easily construct a unique Web site for your business, organization, or personal use.
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WordPress has grown up! No longer just a blogging tool, it has secret powers that enable you to include features like photo and video galleries, portfolios, directories and contact forms, client testimonials, integration with Facebook and Twitter, and a whole lot more in your Web site. The secret is out — read on and learn what you can do!
A solid foundation — understand what a content management system is, how a blog differs from a Web site, and what you need from a Web host
The right tool for the job — learn about FTP, types of editors, graphics programs, fonts and colors, and image libraries
Choose your theme — discover the anatomy of a WordPress theme and how to use template tags to display different content
It′s all yours — create a unique, customized site using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML
Pick plugins — use plugins to add galleries, social communities, and forums to your site
Open the book and find:
Why WordPress is perfect for e–commerce sites
Steps for installing WordPress on your Web server
How plain text editors differ from WYSIWYG editors
Hints for creating dynamite design
What you can do with widgets
Examples of content types and formats
Tips for using WordPress as a content management system
How template tags work
Learn to:
Create custom, feature–rich, dynamic Web sites using WordPress
Customize your design using CSS, HTML, and PHP
Develop company sites, online magazines, and e–commerce Web sites
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This title does a better but not perfect job about focusing on the task (I want to build a website...) and avoiding telling me all about WordPress. By reputation, it's the one to use. At risk of committing a heresy I really don't care about its functionality in the same way I don't care about the functionality of my office productivity suite.
The author's previous title was a guide for people relatively new to computers and targetted at using WordPress for its original purpose as a blog with a little bit about using it as a CMS for a website. I also have WordPress 24-Hour Trainer which I am sure is a very good book but doesn't meet my Wordpress newbie's needs. They're both very good at telling me about WordPress but the neither of them address the task in hand. As I get a bit more knowledgeable I can see they'll become more useful. But I don't want a linear guide to using the features of the tool.
It used to be the case (might still be) that when learning a new programming language you'd learn how to get "hello world" to print on your screen to encourage you e.g., in "C", you'd get a brief you'll need all this (which is actually quite a lot) with explanation to follow. Every C programme in the world requires everything you did to get "Hello World" on to the screen so while it doesn't do much it does get you started. Trust me, you'd give up if you started with the niceties of #
Obviously a CMS is a bit more complicated but at the start I want the instant gratification of having achieved something which encourages me to slog on with the rest of it. As with the pain of learning C I can laern the other stuff as I progress. It might not be efficient but it does enable progress.
I'm computer literate, I want a website and I'm using WordPress, where to start?
I know at some point that I'm going to need to think about colour schemes, fonts, layout, stuff but right now my understanding is that all this is configurable and solveable eventually. I'm not into delayed gratification and learning the equivalent of my Latin irregular verbs because, y'know, when I need them...
I've got my hosting and my domain name sorted out and this book is sufficiently task focused that it has got me started (at last) on a website powered by WordPress, configuration and polish to arrive afterwards. I wonder if then I'd prefer something equivalent to the Linux Cookbook
A bit late to tell you this after you have purchased it!!
This is for people who are already very literate in WebPress - not me
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