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I am launching a shopping cart site, uses paypal, and is selling downloads. I am using Wordpress and need a nice shopping cart THEME for the design and something to handle the shopping cart and automation for the ‘post purchase’ downloads.

depending on the number of products, if you don’t want to pay for a premium theme you could all a paypal button for each product and post each product as its own blog post.
I included a link to shopper press below in the resources, It’s a shoppingcart theme, for wordpress.

enjoy

I want to make a static HTML blog so I can re-design each entry… however, I would like to allow comments in a similar fashion to Wordpress (where a user simply enters a name, email, and comment) and maybe even link to their Gravatar account. I don’t need any other function from a CMS or blogging software… just need the ability for comments to be left behind. What’s the simplest, yet still flexible-in-design, way to do this?

Comment Box Makers:

PHP Comment Script: http://www.gentlesource.com/comment-script/
DoComments 2 comments software for websites: http://jerrata.com/?product=DoComments&focus=download
Add a free comments box to your website!: http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/
Form Using mailform.asp – Simple Comment Box: http://www.niu.edu/its/Scripts/mailform2.html
Comment Box Code: http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/comment_box_code.cfm
Comment (50 widgets): http://www.widgetbox.com/tag/comment
Video, blog, and message board widget: http://www.widgetdeathmatch.com/2009/02/video-blog-and-message-board-widget.html
Customizable Message Board: http://www.widgipedia.com/web-widgets/details/magnamerc/Customizable-Message-Board_757.html

Ron

I have designed my website in photoshop,but I do not know how to convert my psd file to wordpress
before i upload to the server.So any company can help me convert my psd file to wordpress?

Yes i do this for a living. www.ait-pro.com. I am PS designer, website designer, coder and Wordpress design and coding expert. Trying to explain exactly what steps you need to do to do this yourself would take a lot of time and still probably wouldn’t give you all the knowledge you need to do this, but i’ll take a stab at it.

Let me start out with the difference between an HTML website that you would design in Dreamweaver as opposed a Wordpress site design, which is PHP and therefore a dynamic platform using an SQL database. HTML website templates exist in real time and you can visually see everything and literally copy and paste graphics to the template in real time. PHP on the otherhand is primarily code and you will be creating source links and css source links that point to your graphic images. With PHP since it is dynamic the web pages are drawn (created) by pulling the web pages information that is stored in the SQL database, which is triggered by the PHP script in your PHP templates. I’m just giving you the basic principle here so that it may help you in seeing the what it will take to get static images into a dynamic website platform like Wordpress.

To make it simpler maybe this will help. Slicing in Photoshop (PS) is great for an HTML website design. You can literally import/export all your slices into Dreamweaver and you have an almost instant website. With PHP / Wordpress you will still need to "cut up" your design using either slices or just plain cropping. What you will be doing is cutting up your design images and then telling the PHP code and CSS code how and where to reassemble the images and web pages when the information is pulled from your SQL database. I hope i haven’t completely got you lost now. This should help you in conceptualizing the process of taking static images and using them in a dynamic website platform.

I would be more than happy to do this for you. I am very reasonably priced – actually too cheap

I want to create a site like

www.mixergy.com or
tv.winelibrary.com

Both of which are Wordpress sites. I guess they’re the .org handmade sites, not the free .com ones.

Is it hard to achieve this kind of design? Are there any templates that will get me close? How do I go about building a site like this?

Hi i took a look at mixergy and that is not a difficult Wordpress theme customization to do. Very simple as a matter of fact. There are over 1000 free WP themes to pick from so yeah you just start with a free theme is close to what you want and then customize it with you own graphics and layout by modifying the theme’s style.css file. all themes have a style.css file. here is where you will find a directory of free WP themes > http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ You can also get some custom paid themes. I professionally cutomize Wordpress themes, create original website graphics, do dark magic coding and design custom Flash movies for a living so if you want i can do it for you for a very reasonable price. If you want to take this on yourself it will be time consuming, but it is not rocket science so just start out by picking a free theme and then step by step you can find all the answers you need by Googling them. There is huge support for WP and all the answers you would ever need are already answered in cyberspace.

I know I can use phtoshop to do this. Can I use Microsoft Expression to design workpress, joomla or drupal template? Is it easier or more difficult?

Hello
On this page you’ll get
the requested information.

http://www.artisteer.com/?p=faq

Wordpress templates are generally CSS with PHP elements, you need a good understanding of CSS but using the wordpress codex resource you will be able to find the PHP code to create a layout.

It it a good idea to download a free template and have a look how it is put together.

PHP & CSS is the key…

I plan on getting a number of certificates from W3 schools and developing a folio which will include wordpress, flash, dreamweaver and photoshop. I will be doing this in my spare time!

It is possible to develop all that in a year, but not sure where the level you will achieve will get you. Not sure about using wordpress, but it would be worth either going with Flash or photoshop – only try the other once you think you’ve done enough on the one of them.
As for development – ignore JR when he talks crap about professionals not using IDE’s – but they use things like Eclipse ( I use JDeveloper as I’ve used Oracle for some time ). An IDE like Eclipse has the concept of projects ( which I assume you’ll be working on ). There are also versions of Eclipse and plug-ins which help work with HTML, PHP, Java, C++ etc. also a wide range of databases. Eclipse is free to download ( JDeveloper is similar – not so widely used though ) from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Using this may add to your credibility with employers rather than say you’ve been playing with Notepad++!

I have searched youtube and everywhere. I just downloaded Gimp a couple days ago but I really don’t have enough time to learn everything that’s on it. I need someone who can design me a celebrity inspired theme for free. Just someone who enjoys doing these types of projects anyway. Please feel free to email me if you wouldn’t mind doing this. I would like my website to be up by next week. Thanks a lot

PS. I did manage to make a header for my site but now I can’t get it to upload to the site.

andihenderson@ymail.com

How to Do Templates:

How to Download and Edit a Template Video Tutorial: http://www.clantemplates.com/video/How_to_DL_and_Edit/How_to_DL_and_Edit.html

How to Make a New Page Video Tutorial: http://www.clantemplates.com/video/CT_How_to_Make_a_New_Page/CT_How_to_Make_a_New_Page.html

How to Upload Your Template Video Tutorial: http://www.clantemplates.com/video/CT_How_to_Upload/CT_How_to_Upload.html

How to install a WordPress Theme (Video): http://www.thewordpress.com/?p=2259
FAQs: http://faq.wordpress.com/
15 Useful Wordpress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better: http://forthelose.org/15-useful-wordpress-tips-to-make-your-theme-even-better

Template Tags: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags

22 Mixed Quality Wordpress Hacks: http://www.instantshift.com/2009/06/15/22-mixed-quality-wordpress-hacks/
7 Essential WordPress Hacks: http://www.tubetorial.com/web-site-contact-form/

Designing for WordPress – Complete Series & Downloads: http://css-tricks.com/designing-for-wordpress-complete-series-downloads/

How do I design a Word Press blog and have it show up on a clients domain name?

i.e.
www.clientswebsite.com contains wordpress blog?

I’m a amateur graphic/web designer

You can’t unless you have access to the server. If you are installing Wordpress for a client and they have given you the log in info to the Control Panel, just look for WordPress in the Control Panel. Most good hosting services already provide WordPress ready to be installed with the Control Panel’s Installer.

Ron

I want to learn web design and would like to ask whether I should learn wordpress or dreamweaver CS4 to make a site like this:

http://www.truthaboutabs.com/

I want to create around 20 websites that look similar to this so:

What would be easier?

I am prepared to take on a learning curve if need be.

you could create a similar site with either wordpress or dw… it is really up to you…

however, dw offers a better long term tool for future site development in that if you learn the ‘how to’ things in dw, you can expand for more complex sites later… wordpress has some limitations for ease of design creation, though if you have the patience to dig into all of the files you can really do just about anything with wordpress – it is unlikely, though that you would be able to take the majority of what you learn to do in wordpress and translate that to any type of career – I have yet to see a job posting for wordpress designer.

of course there are other design tools you could use but dw is as good a place as any to start with…