Recent content by Monroe

I'm no CSS guru but I feel inclined to offer any advice I can. Perhaps it's the order of your shorthand properties for background. Maybe try changing your #wrapper declaration to: #wrapper { margin: 30px auto 0; width: 1038px; background: #000 url(../images/main.png) repeat-y absolute...

I installed it and I was lost.

Learning CSS is actually just as easily done as it is said. Not hard at all. As for WordPress, if I were you I would stick with it at this point since you don't have any coding experience. As for changing the appearance, go search for some themes, they're pretty simple to install, no coding...

What do actually know at this point? Are you efficient in maintaining servers and databases, and writing the PHP to access the databases? I'm not sure how you go about having a login system with HTML and CSS alone. I suppose you could use WordPress for this if you use the blogging aspect of it...

Is their site running on PHP and a database system or just a bunch of HTML pages connected together? Without PHP/MySQL there's no point for Wordpress. For the mock up designs just use Photoshop.

In my opinion, Dreamweaver is for the graphic designers who need to code their website, but don't really care how it gets done, as long as it works. And in most cases, it will work. But if your goal is to actually learn how to code, then it's much more beneficial to open up a plain text editor...

I would recommend Notepad++ as opposed to Dreamweaver. And when you make it to PHP, try out Eclipse PDT.

I was in the same position you are in now about two months ago. I would definitely start off with XHTML, not only because it's the easiest language to learn (IMO), but also because it lays the foundation for everything that follows. Your best bet is to follow the tutorials at W3Schools. Once...

Ok I figured it out. I never set a username or password. So my username was the default root and there was no password. No wonder I couldn't remember it. But I had initially thought my username was admin, that's why WordPress was saying the password was incorrect when I left it blank, which led...

I have a WAMP server installed on my computer. I had installed WordPress and been using it for awhile and everything was fine. But I accidentally deleted the WordPress folder (don't ask) and now I'm trying to re-install it, but I don't remember my username and password for MySQL. Where do I go...

If by menu bar you mean the sidebar, when you install a theme most of the time they put "widgets" in your sidebar by default (Archive, Search, Categories, Pages, etc) If you want to change that. Then go to Appearance > Menus as Greg said and create a custom menu. Give it a name and add whatever...

Thanks for the advice Jazajay. I've only tried Wordpress so far, and although I like the idea of it, it sort of feels like cheating just because everything is so easy. So I might try my hand at creating a CMS from scratch. But isn't that like re-inventing the wheel? Wouldn't it be smarter to...

I just started using it yesterday and the dashboard is very user-friendly. I'm only using it for its CMS capabilities, not as a blog. I would recommend giving it a shot. If nothing else, you can always uninstall it.

Thanks to the both of you for your insight. I think I'm really getting the hang of CMSes, well Wordpress at least. I started rebuilding my site through WP and it is much easier as far as managing content goes (needless to say). What I don't like is that you have to pay to customize the...

Oh good there's a word for my idea, means I'm on the right track lol. Unfortunately, I think I've come to the conclusion that I have to start from scratch and completely redesign my site. I wanted to implement Wordpress into this site but I realized that it would be better off in the long run...