In the Beginning….
This has been a rather educational experience and then some. Suffice to say everyone is trying to sell something, and often they are trying to sell you convenience wrapped up in a pretty little package. Not here. My services are by far much different, though I too can offer you that same convenience by doing much of this work for you for a fee.
Instead I would rather share with you the information and sites I’ve discovered that helped me. Yet as I do this I hope I do not “shoot myself in the foot” in the process of sharing what I’ve learned. I am a Web Designer after all.
So with a little bit of extra work, a lot of searching, and carefully selecting my keywords in the search engines, I’ve dug up quite a bit of information. This is my Journey into Word Press to CMS conversion.
Wait. What?
CMS? For the non-tech-talk savvy, a CMS is short hand for “Content Management System” among other acronyms. What “Content Management System” means, to put it simply, is the back-end code that makes publishing web pages easier. It does the work of the monotonous tasks that normally must be done by hand. It does all of the of coding each page, for every page, in a site. All you have to do is create content!
It takes most of the repeated tasks, like coding the header and footer that are the same for every page, and does it for you while yet making sure it looks the same for every page. Well that’s a “Cliff Notes ™” version of the idea. For a clearer and more specific definition, here is a Wikipedia Article on CMS for your perusal.
General Overview
So the idea here is that we are using WordPress to facilitate website building by changing the Blog software a bit. To some this may be “cheating”, but to others it is a form of efficiency and speed. To be sure, one should always give credit where credit is due. So here is a cheerful ‘hats off’ to the various creative minds that have put in the work and effort to make WordPress what it is today!
