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YoYo Mel
YoYo Mel

Reputation: 161

HTML/CSS to Wordpress?

I have the html and css for a site that I designed and am thinking about hiring a WP dev to put it all together.

2 Questions:

1).Would a dev be able to "transfer" the html/css into a wordpress site OR would they essentially have to start all over and "visually" build the front end from scratch based on what they see? It's my understanding that they would have to start over because wp does not accept html. I would prefer that the dev actually USE my html/css because I've spent so much time on it.

2). Are sites like Elance.com a good idea to build using WP?

Thank you again everyone! You guys are amazing here! Brian

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (2)

I am Cavic
I am Cavic

Reputation: 1085

I agree with the above answer, most of your HTML and CSS is used in exact same way in WP. All that is missing is some to make it work and dynamic. However to build a site like Elance.com I wouldn't use a WP framework but rather build an actual service from scratch.

  • PHP, ASP.NET, Python, Ruby on Rails
  • Oracle, MySQL, SQL

It is up to you what you will decide to use what type of features will you decide to have on the website. You can build a simple job posting website with only PHP and MySQL and probably have it done in a week.

However if you decide to go a more professional rout and have some extra features and so on I would recommend building from scratch and not use plugins and crap to complete the project.

I wish this helps you, best of luck with your project

Upvotes: 1

Jaron Gao
Jaron Gao

Reputation: 466

1) They can use your html/css as a base to build the WP templates. Your code would be useful to them. They most likely won't be able to directly copy the files over, but they can open the files and copy/paste the parts to the appropriate WP PHP templates.

Short answer: yes, they would be able to "transfer" your code to WordPress

2) Building a data-heavy site like Elance would, in my opinion, be much easier with a web application framework like Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org/

Upvotes: 3

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