So it’s finally time to finish that website that’s been “coming soon” for an embarrassingly long time. Or the one you’ve been meaning start when things slow down a bit. Or, how about the one you already have but you can’t edit it yourself, the web guy is nowhere to be found, or it’s so old you’re ashamed to share your URL. Planning a new or revamped website shouldn’t be difficult or overwhelming. Here are some tips for getting a website you will be proud of and completed in a reasonable amount of time.
Resources and Tutorials for Graphic Designers and Web Designers
WordPress Blog Intergration Update
The article How to Integrate a WordPress Blog Into Your Existing Website is fairly simple using the Classic template as a starting point. It works great, this site is using it.
That said, I am currently writing a new post using a more advanced method. It uses the Thematic theme and a customized child theme. The advantages being Thematic has a lot of great features and using a child theme leaves the base code in tact. Please stand by.
How to Integrate a WordPress Blog Into Your Existing Website
The alternate title for this tutorial is Or How I Added a Wordpress Blog to This Website. This tutorial assumes you’re using PHP, CSS and XHTML. This tutorial is based on WordPress 2.7. This is not a tutorial about making a standard WordPress theme. It does not strictly adhere to the standards set in Designing Themes for Public Release. It is intended to seamlessly incorporate a blog into an existing website.
You’ll need to know some basics:
- how to FTP to your site;
- how to set permissions;
- your database hostname (probably localhost), the database name, your username and your password for the database; and
- some CSS and XHTML basics.