Comments on: Do-It-Yourself Websites. Hmmmm.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:10:47 +0000

Indeed, Bruce. Templating has its place, certainly, but it baffles me how a company can hope to differentiate itself with a template — which is essentially a clone. Who wants to tell their customers that they are just like everybody else?

Thanks for the comment!

By: PervasivePersuasion

PervasivePersuasion — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:08:00 +0000

FWIW,

Many of our new clients are business people frustrated by the poor results achieved from their DIY web designs.

Professional website design is about building a web presence that generates real bottom-line results. You can’t do that by filling in the blanks of some fifty dollar template…

Bruce Arnold, Web Designer
Miami Florida

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:37:56 +0000

Thanks for all the advice on PHP, Abi and Haven. I’ll start on the googling and using my test Wordpress site to learn.

By: Haven Rich

Haven Rich — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:07:40 +0000

*pouts* I’m not going to Nationals this year. I was suppose to but things came up.

I love plug-ins but boy they can be annoying when they don’t work.

By: Abi Bowling

Abi Bowling — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:01:58 +0000

Didn’t work for you either, Haven? Hmmmm… Well, this was the first live preview plugin I tried — it got great reviews. Back to the drawing board, I guess! Hopefully I’ll be able to install a new preview function, though, as I’m busy prepping for RWA meeting. We’re going to be busy busy busy!

By: Haven Rich

Haven Rich — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:21:53 +0000

Abi, just wanted to mention that the preview didn’t work for me either.

By: Haven Rich

Haven Rich — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:20:54 +0000

You can download free templates for wordpress and see how their php and css work hand in hand. It’s how I learned.

By: Abi Bowling

Abi Bowling — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:48:42 +0000

Keira-

In order to view the preview, you have to make sure you’ve scrolled all the way down the page so you can see the white space below the ‘post comment’ button. Then you’ll be able to see a live preview comment.

Unfortunately, I cannot share our php code with you, as much of it is proprietary — there is a lot I’ve come up with that is unique to Wax. Much of our php code also contains passwords and other such info (such as database access).

A great way to learn is to figure out what kind of process/action you want to achieve, such as randomizing links or images, and then googling that. You’ll be amazed at how much you can find/learn just with google! I learned a LOT of PHP from code that I found just by googling.

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:18:31 +0000

Would you two mind if I copied your PHP code files to see how you do things?

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:17:23 +0000

Abi, didn’t see the preview.