You’re a web designer, and you want to create a website – and like a lot of sites these days, it will be based around the pages, yet include a blog or news section. Congratulations! I am now going to give you a quick tutorial on making a page-based site using WordPress. This will make editing the pages easy, yet make it look like the blog is a separate installation.

If you have never touched PHP, roll up your sleeves and get ready to get dirty. I will try to make this relatively painless.

What you need!

WordPress

WordPress Plugins (Optional):

All In One SEO Pack
Contact Form 7
NexGen Gallery
PageMash
WP Google Analytics

Programs

You’ll need to BYOP but here are the ones I use:

TextMate OR any text editor
Transmit OR any FTP program

Services

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