I picked the winner for the ShopHTML competition today, a winner who asked for a post I can not possibly do in one single post. So I’ve started an article series on the topic: using WordPress as a CMS, and am ready to release the first article to you already: going from your website’s goal to its site structure.
This doesn’t touch on WordPress as much as on general site design principles, but as these steps are often misunderstood and they very much determine whether your site is ever going to be successful, I decided it needed to be in there. The next article in the series will be more WordPress focussed, going on about design, and turning a design into a theme and more. Stay tuned for that, but for now, start reading: Your website: from goal to structure.
Awesome. I would love to see some focus on using WordPress as an online store, though I know you are into Magento for eCommerce.
Great show today btw.
Excellent. It’s any bit as concise as your SEO WordPress post, it’s going to a super read.
Doesn’t matter how many times you’ve set up a website, a good refresher on the basics will always remind you of something.
Great first post to a series I’m thoroughly looking forward to!
Chris, I was thinking the same thing today watching a very basic CSS video series. Most of it was old hat, just a good refresher, but there were a few nuggets of information which made the whole series worth watching.
It’s inspired me to start going back through my old material and refresh it for new readers.
I personally love WordPress. So easy to work with (most of the time). Curious to read your entire series on this topic.
Nice post. From the link you provided about custom post types and WP3 it looks like it’s getting much better at being a CMS than before.
Hopefully WP3 features will start to appear in your future posts as it gets closer to being a ‘real’ release!
Out of interest will you be covering any e-commerce functionality, or is that a topic better left for another series?
Thank you for such a useful article. The information presented will help everyone that reads it. Please continue to elaborate on this subject as I’m sure there will be more need for information on this in the future.and that is help me so much
I find your website from the Dashboard of my website.
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Thank you for this article. I have sensed this is what I need to do for my site (and a client’s site), but haven’t been able to get a picture clear enough to implement until now.
Then there’s the lack of confidence between thinking “probably ought to more formally structure my pages” and the “I wonder if that’s just a big waste of time?”
Your explanation provides both executable information and induces self-confidence I want before committing to the work.