"Wordpress for web designers. What, when, how, where" por @nuriarai
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This document provides an overview of WordPress, including what it is, what a web content management system (WCMS) is, the pros and cons of WordPress, the types of sites that can be built with it, when to use or not use WordPress, how to use WordPress through themes, plugins and other features, and where WordPress is commonly used and where to find resources.
"Wordpress for web designers. What, when, how, where" por @nuriarai
- 1. for web designers what, when, how, where Núria Ramoneda @nuriarai June 2012 #webcat
- 2. Who am I? • A mother of a teenager • A freelancer collaborating with Enfusión and other agencies • Working on the web side from 2006 • Working in desktop applications from 1996 • With a history degree never used • Passionate for the web • Running ww.tresxnou.cat and now www.paddingzero.com
- 3. What is Wordpress? WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. (wikipedia)
- 4. What is a wcms? A WCMS is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. (wikipedia)
- 5. What is good? • Easy to setup • Low learning curve • Thousands of plugins • Thousands of themes • Big developer community • Friendly and easy user interface • SEO friendly • Output standard, semanthic and clean code (depending on the theme, of course!)
- 6. What is bad? • Thousands of plugins • Thousands of themes • Lack of in-build multilingual capability • Scalability • Lack of an easiest way to implement caching • More flexible and powerfull user permisions management
- 7. What is ugly? • The WYSIWYG editor the TinyMCE editor in WP has a lazy behaviour with HTML paragraph tags <p></p> • Media management have to be improved • More advanced management of pages and subpages
- 8. What kind of sites we can do?
- 9. What kind of sites we can do? • Blogs
- 10. What kind of sites we can do? • Blogs • Galleries
- 11. What kind of sites we can do? • Blogs • Galleries • Portfolios
- 12. What kind of sites we can do? • Blogs • Galleries • Portfolios • Shopping
- 13. What kind of sites we can do? • Blogs • Magazines • Galleries • Portfolios • Shopping
- 14. What kind of sites we can do? • Blogs • Magazines • Galleries • Professional sites • Portfolios • Shopping
- 15. What kind of sites we can do? • Blogs • Magazines • Galleries • Professional sites • Portfolios • Enterprise sites • Shopping
- 16. What kind of sites we can do? • Blogs • Magazines • Galleries • Professional sites • Portfolios • Enterprise sites • Shopping • Community sites Almost everything....
- 17. When can you use Wordpress?
- 18. When can you use Wordpress? When client needs:
- 19. When can you use Wordpress? When client needs: - update content often
- 20. When can you use Wordpress? When client needs: - update content often - update content on their own
- 21. When can you use Wordpress? When client needs: - update content often - update content on their own - update content easily
- 22. When can you use Wordpress? When client needs: - update content often - update content on their own - update content easily When client has:
- 23. When can you use Wordpress? When client needs: - update content often - update content on their own - update content easily When client has: - a low budget
- 24. When can you use Wordpress? When client needs: - update content often - update content on their own - update content easily When client has: - a low budget - no time to get the site running
- 25. When not to use wordpress? In small and simple sites In very large and complex sites - With thousands of pages or - With complex workflow rules or - With lots of distinct roles for 100s of users or - With a high-level traffic expected
- 26. When not to use wordpress? In small and simple sites – With less than 10 pages and – With no database needs and – With no frequently updates In very large and complex sites - With thousands of pages or - With complex workflow rules or - With lots of distinct roles for 100s of users or - With a high-level traffic expected
- 27. How to use wordpress? Different aproachs: more • create a new theme from scratch • create a new theme/child from a framework php skills • take a good theme that has a similar Budget layout to your desing and rebuild it • take a good theme and tunning it less
- 28. http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/ http://int-team.com/ca/serveis-a-empreses/
- 29. http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/ http://int-team.com/ca/serveis-a-empreses/
- 30. http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/ http://int-team.com/ca/serveis-a-empreses/
- 31. http://yoko.elmastudio.de/ http://dosymedia.es/en
- 32. http://yoko.elmastudio.de/ http://dosymedia.es/en
- 33. http://yoko.elmastudio.de/ http://dosymedia.es/en
- 34. http://yoko.elmastudio.de/ http://spain.pacificworld.com/
- 35. http://yoko.elmastudio.de/ http://spain.pacificworld.com/
- 36. http://yoko.elmastudio.de/ http://spain.pacificworld.com/
- 37. How to use wordpress? • Child Themes • Page templates • Widgets • Menu building tool • Custom fields beyond build-in fields • Custom content types beyond posts & pages • Custom taxonomies beyond tags & categories • Shortcodes • Filter hooks and action hooks • Adding styles to editor
- 38. Where are using wordpress? • Smashing magazine • Sitepoint • Techcrunch • Nathional Geographic Magazine Netherlands • CBS New York • The official Star Wars • Number10 UK government office • Kb24 (Kobe Bryant) • CNN politics • Much more....
- 39. Smashing & Sitepoint ? WTF
- 40. Silvester Stalone http://sylvesterstallone.com/
- 41. New York Times Blogs http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
- 42. The Pixel Blog http://www.thepixel.com/blog/
- 43. Thinkspace: Art gallery http://thinkspacegallery.com/
- 44. NEXT www.next.kz
- 45. Harvard gazette
- 46. hMAG magazine http://www.hmag.com/
- 47. Babble comunity http://babble.com/
- 48. Redorbit comunity http://www.redorbit.com/
- 49. WormSign http://www.wormsigntshirts.co.uk/
- 52. Where are...? • Elegant themes • Woo themes • Press 75 • I themes • Theme forest • Thesis • Studio press • Genesis • Elmastudio • Page lines
- 53. Where are...? good themes: • Elegant themes • Woo themes • Press 75 • I themes • Theme forest • Thesis • Studio press • Genesis • Elmastudio • Page lines
- 54. Where are...? good themes: • Elegant themes • Woo themes • Press 75 good frameworks: • I themes • Theme forest • Thesis • Studio press • Genesis • Elmastudio • Page lines
- 57. Code is poetry Thanks! #webcat - June 2012 @nuriarai www.enfusion.es www.paddingzero.com
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