Organising content

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 January 2010 03:17 Written by Mandy Saturday, 16 January 2010 03:13

There’ll be lots of steps to this!

Firstly, I’ve deleted all of the “links” in Wordpress admin. These were displayed across the header, but for now I don’t need any so have got rid of them.

Next, it’s time to edit, delete and add pages. This is where Wordpress works much better than Joomla for simple brochure style sites I think. The process for adding new pages and getting them shown in a menu is difficult for a new Joomla user to understand, although that software is probably more flexible in the long run. For Wordpress, just go to the “pages” option in Wordpress admin and it is all reasonably self-explanatory.

Adapting colours

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 January 2010 03:03 Written by Mandy Saturday, 16 January 2010 03:03

Next step is more css editting so that I can adapt the colours to match my logo a bit better.  For this Firebug is really useful – allowing you to identify the code and colours you need to change. I use Textpad for making code changes but any text editor will do, just don’t be tempted to use a word processing software – Word will wreck your code! Don’t forget to upload changes via ftp.

Next step is to work out how to use Wordpress for a cms style site and add some content.

Changing the Logo

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 January 2010 09:43 Written by Mandy Tuesday, 12 January 2010 09:28

A little bit more complicated!

Rocket Theme provide a good tutorial on how to edit the logo provided with the template. However, I already had my logo so wanted to use it as is (and besides, I don’t have Fireworks installed at the moment!). The template logo files are actually used for other parts of the template, and a section of that image shown in each place. I therefore editted the css to use my logo file in the logo position, and allowed it to continue using the template’s logo file for the other design elements. Bingo!