Starting Website - No design skills

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Hello fellas

Basically been playing around with Word Press and Joomla - both are doing my head in (specifically considering I have a custom design idea that I would rather use). Anyone have any links to any noob sites that can take you from the veryyyyyyy beginning? How did you all become more proficient at the design aspect?

thanks!
 


Just use the twenty ten theme
Download Xheader free version (comes with many headers you can use for free) for the header
 
Don't bother with Joomla, it is a mess.

My personal preference is to use a very basic theme and use it as a template for creating the theme I want, versus using a very customiziable theme, but then again, I am not a Wordpress pro, so I just keep things simple.

Good luck.
 
with lots of practice.

There are many free and good guides available on YouTube as well that will show you how to setup your wordpress and joomla.

I sugest you use wordpress, it's quicker and easyer to work with + ... Google has a thing for wordpress....

Also WP comes with tones of plugins free and premium and almost all marketing developers get stuff out for you to use with WP.
 
Just spend 1-2 hrs in your admin panel, click on all the buttons on the left side and see what they can do.. you will be an expert in less than that (basics expert only of course :p)
 
kakaboo said:
Just spend 1-2 hrs in your admin panel, click on all the buttons on the left side and see what they can do.. you will be an expert in less than that (basics expert only of course :p)
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I agree with this. WP is very noob-friendly and if you have use a blog before, you will definitely know how to use it. The most important feature of WP is the availability of plugins and that is the reason why I love using WP. Learn what are the essential plugins are and to name a few:

- Yoast SEO (SEO optimization)
- Contact
- Google sitemap
- cbnet ping optimizer
 
Again, thank you fellas.

BTW downloaded notepad 2+, makes deciphering code much clearer!
 
wordpress did my head in when I first used it, I got really annoyed with the formatting so now use CKEditor, it was a big help.
 
Depends on how much of a new person you are to coding. I highly recommend sitepoint.com's books for learning to code. I'm a guy that has to learn by example. Some people recommend w3cschool but honestly, it doesn't give you very good examples or logic on how you would use the functions. Sitepoint will take you step by step in developing an application/website and you can see how and where things would be used. If you are new to coding, you almost have to start with HTML/CSS. After that, move onto basic PHP/MySQL coding. Finally, once you have basic concepts of that, you can go onto Wordpress or other software powered by PHP/MySQL. Good luck!
 
try told hang out in your cpanel watch the tutorials there and in youtube for sure you wll learn a lor
 
Well I've found a theme that I'm liking and just editing it now - I've got a bit of coding history in HTML from 6 years ago (nostalgia!) and I'm making the site as more of a learning experience then anything else at the moment.

I'll put it up once its all done
 
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