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I am starting a new project for a Custom Home Building company's website. I am new to web development but I have programming experience, so please excuse my newbie questions.
Here is what I have been trying to find answers to, but to no avail...
I am planning on using Twitter's Bootstrap to design the website which will mostly consist of images, videos,a contact page and portfolio (pretty basic). I am also planning on purchasing a bootstrap theme to get started and modify from there (a theme from a site called "wrapbootstrap"). Does anyone have any good experience with using Bootstrap themes and does this sound like a solid plan of action?
I am planning on using the Bootstrap theme but I am worried about content management. I would like the client to be able to change out and modify pictures and edit text easily. Is it good practice to give clients a CMS on the site to be able to do this or is this unheard of?
Also one last question. I am planning on hosting this on GoDaddy, does the host I choose need special requirements to host a Bootstrap site or can I easily upload it to a GoDaddy host?
All help is very much appreciated, Cheers!
GoDaddy, if you Google it, has notoriously slow and lousy hosting. You should familiarize yourself with what Bootstrap is. It's simply html, css, and jQuery, so any host will work. But a CMS has specific requirements, some require php 5+, image manipulation, and other server side apps, RAM requirements, and so on. Therefore you need to figure out a good host for your CMS.
If you are good with your CMS and understand html, and CSS and some jQuery then you can take a pre-created theme or your own and put in the tags, loops, menu, footer, header, and other includes and create a database driven site. Most developers use a CMS to allow customers the ability to add content to their sites. Wordpress developers create admin themes in html, css, and php so it's easy for their customer to update.
There's also hosted CMS systems that have built in functions for nearly all the common functions like galleries, blogs, etc., you need to look around. http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/web-development/hosted-cms/
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I am currently learning front end web development. So far I am pretty familiar with HTML and CSS. I can make a website with (hours of)tinkering. I am going to learn some more advanced css and Javascript along the way. I have a website I am building from notepad and my question is: How do I upload a custom website to wordpress? I mean like is there a way to upload the files instead of using wordpress system.
EDIT: I was notified that this may have not made perfect sense. I apologize. I am working on a website as practice. It is being built in notepad and I was just wondering if there is any possibility of publishing it to the internet. Is there some sort of hosting service available for that kind of thing?
"Building a website with notepad" and building a website with Wordpress are TWO DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED approaches.
SUGGESTION:
If you want to learn wordpress, then install wordpress, work through a couple of tutorials, and play with a couple of different plugins and different templates. Focus on "Wordpress", not HTML or any underlying technologies.
NOTE:
You really don't have to know ANY HTML or ANY Javascript to effectively use Wordpress.
But if you DO get serious about "what's under the covers" with Wordpress ... then you'll likely be getting your hands dirty with PHP and with mySQL, too.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-theme-7
There's a lot of work involved with creating a WordPress theme from scratch, however. You should consult the official WordPress documentation. https://codex.wordpress.org/
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I currently have a Travel site built using Asp.Net MVC. The site have many articles and albums with lot of images asssociated with it. Currently, we are uploading the images locally to a folder and linking it in the article content and similarly for the albums too. Since the number of images are growing day by day, there are more loads on the webserver for every request which downloads lots of images.
I have seen other sites where they do similar thing by referring the images alone from a subdomain and some using CDN.
I am currently having shared hosting site plan and i need to reduce the stress to webserver by rendering the image from elsewhere.
Is there any CDN recommendation that is not so costly but can integrate well with my ASP.Net MVC site? I want to only upload the image to a CDN and link the image from CDN instead of local folder from the article posting page.
If CDN is not the option, can anyone suggest something else to serve my purpose?
Thanks in advance!
Yes, You need to move content to CDN. Because CDN provides very huge speed over network and it will reduce traffic to your web server.
There are very high range of CDN's available in market. I would suggest some of those for your purpose.
CDN77
Azure
MAXCDN
Akamai
From all above, CDN77 and Azure are less costly than others as per my experience.
and also you should try CDN77 14days free trial for testing purpose.
Thanks,
Hayat S.
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I’m looking into building a site for a contractor. Most of the site is static, but my question is about the dynamic part. I would like a client (of the contractor) to be able to log in as a user and be able to see a personal section of the website (viewable to him alone) with different data, graphs, and images that are specific to him and his project.
The data will obviously need to be set by an admin.
I am of course assuming that I will need to write a bit of code, but since I don’t have much experience with either Wordpress or Drupal, I wanted to get opinions as to which system would be better for my needs.
I hope I explained it properly.
Thanks.
Drupal. Drupal is super flexible and customizable. With the unlimited number of roles, customizable user permissions and the powerful API, you can do whatever you want.
Don't hesitate. :)
Go with Drupal. You will get the privileges of excellent permission system to develope a custom web application for your client.
Drupal is the way to go form managing a lot of complex data.
Drupal is considered to be both framework and CMS so coding will be easier.
Drupal has vast variety of modules which will help you a lot. I suggest looking into charts module for displaying charts into views and panels modules for managing layouts Content access or Organic groups modules for managing users. In included in core there is role and permissions system. There also modules which will allow you to set specific permissions for each content node.
If I where you I would use dashboard or panels modules to give users cognizable iGoogle like dashboard.
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I know my question isn't about programming problem, I just need a suggestion to get started on right direction but I'm guessing this non-question post is going to be close :( there should be two types of post, "ask question" and "ask suggestion" :D
I'm a beginner in PHP and currently getting my hands dirty on PHP OOP, made a little framework.
I'm planning to learn codeigniter and wordpress, Kindly suggest me which thing should I start first with?
can I do full projects with wordpress like college/university CMS? Shopping cart? etc custom forms with dynamic fields/data?
Can I use codeigniter scripts in wordpress custom page?
First off I don't know codeigniter.
But of course it is possible to use codeigniter scripts in your wordpress plugins and theme's.
This plugin should do that: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-code-igniter/
Do beware that Wordpress had a lot of build in functions for developers.
Try not to duplicate functions. Like the database connection use wpdb and others.
Read the codex, start with building your own theme before moving into you own plugin
And if you start building then codeignitor should be usefull, everything(like 95%) you need to do in a theme should be possible with build in wordpress functions.
i would suggest you learn codeigniter instead. here is a tutorial series that will get you going. Codeigniter from Scratch
I also suggest to starts with ci, as in ci you can builtup customization easily. While wp you have lots of limitation for customize project, and querying. WP is good for cms only, and in CI you are free to built costumize as well as cms project also.
I deal primarily with custom .net WebForms and MVC based applications, but someone came to me and asked for help with creating a small website for their non-profit organization for which they will need to be able to accept donations.
My preference would be to use a simple CMS, and I have heard of Shopify and the Shop Plugin for WordPress, but they really don't need that level of e-commerce. Basically what I am looking for is some advice for using a simple mini-CMS, be it WordPress, Squarespace, etc, and integrating some method for accepting and keeping track of donations.
My initial thought was to use WordPress and then link to Paypal.
Note: WordPress has grown up since a few years ago. It can easily be used as a full-on CMS serving hundreds of pages based on custom data types.
As far as collecting donations, any ecommerce/shopping cart solution is massive overkill for accepting donations. A PayPal link is definitely the fastest way to go. Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it.
Note: some people do not like PayPal, so consider adding multiple buttons. Here is the Google Checkout version. Or 2co looks like they will support it now (or Real Soon Now).
Squarespace - an alternative to wordpress. Get the complete guide - https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206796007-Templates-and-design
After your setup the website - Find the step-by-step guide on how to accept recurring donations on Squarespace website for your non-profit websites.
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/squarespace-embedding/