wordpress??

[Alex]

I'd forget about Dreamweaver for now. Get familiar with configuring Wordpress via the administration panel (yoursite.com/wp-admin). See what you can configure from there and what it's limitations are. Install some free themes and see what effect that has on the site.

After that you could learn how to use Dreamweaver, but I'd recommend just learning HTML/CSS. Get a good FTP client like filezilla and experiment with changing CSS files in your WP installation to change the look of the site.

[spottypenguin]

Al i want to do is have my own website. I don't understand dreamweaver and i was told wordpress is good for websites/blogging??

What is a host, and how do i go about getting one?

Hi, meant to say as well if you are going down the Wordpress route it's worthwhile signing up at elegantthemes.com ... unfortunately there is a 30-odd dollar joining fee but for that you get access to all the best themes and their support forum is excellent. My webdesign skills are negligible but I managed to cobble a basic site together in no time :icon_thumbup:

[byronc]

Al i want to do is have my own website. I don't understand dreamweaver and i was told wordpress is good for websites/blogging??

What is a host, and how do i go about getting one?

Word press is not a static wbsites (ie it does not have html pages that just sit there). Its a php coded framework, that creates pages you have "edited". So it needs to run on a machine that has apache webs erver running and also has php installed and also has a database installed.

Wordpress itself provides freee hosting - so do it there for now.

Hosting is where you rent a space on a machine on the internet. ie hosting typically provided has all those things - wordpress, database, php etc etc easy one click installs.

once your wordpress website is installed you can edit it in various ways.

you can install and template (look and feel theme), you can edit the template, and then you can add as many web pages and content and pictures and other useful plugins to the site.

i recently merged a wordpress site into an old website and the client uses the wordpress admin area to add blog posts and these then appear on his website.