[dave0123]

Now that christmas is coming i am going to have a play with wordpress and see if i can design something just to get going.

Anyway its now downloaded and running what do i need to do now? do i need a plugin to start eding theme's from websites to buy to download or free ones? doesn't look like you can do much on it to be fair.

[AJ]

find a theme you like at wordpress.org or themeforest or somewhere, download it to your pc, go to 'themes' on wordpress and upload your new theme. Go to 'pages' on the left, this is where you can add, change or alter your content.

Play about with it for a while its very easy and the effects can look really good.

[dave0123]

ok, il give that ago because all i can see to get is blogs thingys with posts.. i dont want a blog want a website lol.

[PAUL ERITH]

I use the following

sterling Theme bought from theme forest for $55

yoast for seo
xhanch for twitter
and jet pack

[dave0123]

thanks for that,

so basicly if i have a look for a design i like buy it theres a few on that above site.. and install it ... it should be easily to amend it and change details etc. or do i need any extra program's like photoshop or html editors

[PAUL ERITH]

how you getting on with the wordpress site  

I have been updating my and found another good plugin called layerslider try it out  

Paul

[dave0123]

Hi Paul,

Ive only had a little play with with one of the free theme's still getting my head around it but looks promising.

[AJ]

Make sure you get some sort of security plugin for it before it goes live. Protect against malware etc. our site got hacked before christmas cos i forgot to reactivate the security plugin when i updated wordpress. Someone got into the site and was sending out 1000's of emails that looked like they were coming from us, selling viagara, cialis etc. Our host shut the site down, google dropped us and we have had to rebuid the site from scratch, over 100 pages, now that hurts!

[PAUL ERITH]

Make sure you get some sort of security plugin for it before it goes live. Protect against malware etc. our site got hacked before christmas cos i forgot to reactivate the security plugin when i updated wordpress. Someone got into the site and was sending out 1000's of emails that looked like they were coming from us, selling viagara, cialis etc. Our host shut the site down, google dropped us and we have had to rebuid the site from scratch, over 100 pages, now that hurts!

What plugin do you use for security AJ 

[AJ]

Ive got this 'Anti-Malware by ELI (Get Off Malicious Scripts)'.