WordPress: a stepping stone to Web Development

WordPress
a stepping stone to Web Development

CapturedWings.net
an anime network fansite

SYAORAN.net
My first fully customized WordPress blog

Why WordPress?

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.
XAMPP is free of charge.
http://www.apachefriends.org
XAMPP

Unzip the package in an empty directory and upload everything.
Open wp-admin/install.php in your browser. It will take you through the process to set up a wp-config.php file with your database connection details.
Once the configuration file is set up, the installer will set up the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again. If it fails again, please go to the support forums with as much data as you can gather.
If you did not enter a password, note the password given to you. If you did not provide a username, it will be admin.
The installer should then send you to the login page. Sign in with the username and password you chose during the installation. If a password was generated for you, you can then click on 'Profile' to change the password.
Installing WordPressthe Famous 5-minute install

WordPress uses...
http://php.net/
http://www.mysql.com/

Starting with WordPress
Frameworks

In WordPress, these are called Theme Frameworks.
Examples:
Thematic
themeshaper.com/thematic
Hybrid
themehybrid.com
CSS/Design Frameworks

In WordPress, these are called Theme Frameworks.
Examples:
jQuery
jquery.com
Prototype
prototypejs.org
AJAX Frameworks

CodeIgniter
codeigniter.com
CakePHP
cakephp.org
Yii
www.yiiframework.com
PHP Frameworks

Outsourced Web Developer
In-house Web Developer
Freelance Web Developer
Types of Web Developer

IDE (Integrated Developer Environment)
Zend Studio
www.zend.com
NetBeans
www.netbeans.org
Text Editor
Notepad++
notepad-plus-plus.org
Web Developer Tools

MySQL Administration
SQLyog
www.phpmyadmin.net
phpMyAdmin
www.webyog.com
Mood Setter
foobar2000 (media player)
www.foobar2000.org
Web Developer Tools

Code,
CODE
and then CODE some more.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=6020

One more thing...

“The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.”
Tom Cargill

WordPress: a stepping stone to Web Development

by remixwolf on Oct 25, 2010

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