From html to WordPress

[quicky]

Hi All,

After years of trying to teach myself html and xhtml (very poorly) I finally decided to try to move everything to wordpress to give myself an easier life and allow me to get on with the design side of things (what I like doing the best).

For a complete non blogger like me WordPress looked a little daunting but after finding out a mate does all his websites in wordpress I finally plucked up the courage to do something about it.

I intend to take my little sites over to wordpress.

My design site first http://www.andyquick.co.uk
and then my paddling site. http://www.kayakcapers.co.uk

Hopefully what I learn in one will be very transferable to all the others in the future.

It looks like a huge mountain to climb at the moment but thanks to the video posts by Chris I have finally plucked up the courage to do it (wish me luck).

Please excuse any stupid sounding questions I may ask on here. I am a WordPress virgin at the moment.

To start with can anyone tell me what are the best, most popular and easiest to understand galleries viewers on the market at the moment.
I use thickbox at the moment on my design site. Are there better ones out there for image viewing?

All the best

Quicky

[quicky]

Cheers Al,

Will have a look.

The thing I have found most daunting at the momentis how it all fits together and having to learn the basics of PHP to understand a few thing.

Still every mountain is only there to be conquered. Thanks for the help.

[quicky]

Hi All,

Second daft question for you. Not WP related

Are there any php forms out there that have a captcha sort of capability that you do not have to buy into or pay for.
Needs to work on a mysql database.

Needs to be easy to use and idiot proof.

[TheDoc]

http://recaptcha.net/

[quicky]

looks interesting! Thank you

[quicky]

Hi All, Back aagain with another ‘stupid’ question.

I have been reading through ‘Complete wordpress’ Which has a chapter on RSS feeds and some associated code to make ‘readers’ etc.

I am sure this is very easy to understand once you get the knack but I am confusing the heck out of myself.

Does anyone have an easy tutorial or explanation to break down the requirements to make an RSS feed and reader.
A sot of a ‘you need this in here’ and @this in here’ sort of guide. Sorry for the stupid sounding question but I am just trying to get my head round it all.

All the best

[apostrophe]

Not really sure what you mean :?

If you are using WordPress then you already have an RSS feed, just get a feedburner account at Google to maximise its potential.

Why would you want to make a feed reader? There are literally hundreds of free ones for all platforms readily available.

Maybe this will help http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=79408&cbid=1ahae788qs66f&src=cb&lev=answer

[quicky]

Cheers for the info.

Right another quick one for everyone:

Well I am having fun with galleries. Tried to download 3 good looking ones but it seems you need a degree in Astro Physics to get images to display like on the individual demo sites pages.

Going to try and find some more if I can.

Have you found any good (easy to use)ones.

Have looked at:
wpesp portfolio
Featured content gallery
Fotofolio

Would like a simple click to view image and info. (either on page or via a thickbox style thing).

All the best

[Author]

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