I spent a few days this week going through the WordPress documentations in particular how to set up WordPress site as CMS. While it is great that WordPress has extensive amount of documentations available and community supports, it's hard to decide which one I should start to follow. Different resources has slightly different ideas of to approach the problems. Unless you are clear on exactly what you're looking for, I have to keep trying the different solutions until I found the right ones.
I've started choosing the base theme framework which I will use as a base for the website. It's still at the trial and error stage at the moment and I haven't made a final decision if this would be the theme I would be based my design on. I'm using an open source WordPress theme framework called Thematic from ThemeShaper, which seems to have pretty good reviews on the flexibility and extensibiliy of developing your own theme. I tried a few more themes to see how it looks and Thematic seems to offer the better solutions so far.
Thematic theme can be extended by using the WordPress Thematic Child Theme, which gives the flexbility to customise the theme to suit your design. At the moment I'm experimenting with Thematic Child Theme called Early Morning. Although it hasn't got everything that I need, it has certain elements in it that I like to use in my design. I will need to customise it myself to achieve my design. So far, I manage to upload my own branding at the top, change the page background and all just by using CSS.
There are a few challenges that frustrated me at the moment. I need to put my own page navigation, but somehow I haven't found the way to do it to achieve the type of layout I wanted to achieve. It doesn't behave the way I expected it to behave! I need to do more research and read the documentations.
That's all for now. More progress coming up.
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