Read Chapter 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in Teach Yourself Visually Wordpress
Fact of life #1 - We don't read pages. We scan them.
- Wordpress was created primarily to be a blog but is now widely used as a website builder
- There are three major components to the WP content areas
- Page
- Post
- Category
- There are also dynamic components that are consistent throughout the site (some can be turned on and off
- Sidebar
- Header
- Footer
- There are also dynamic components that can be placed throught the layout that can perform a variety of functions
- Widgets
- Plugins
- The look and feel of each of these compents as well as the overall layout can be controlled by CSS
- Anatomy of a basic Wordpress Page