I'm an aspiring web developer – questions about the concept of CMS and themes

  • Hello fellow WP users!

    I’m a fairly new web developer intern. I’m learning how to become a great web developer. I’m still not understanding how Content Management Systems work and what benefits do developers get from them?

    My boss told me to create a webpage using purely HTML and CSS as an exercise. I did that and I’ve posted it on our development server. He said I did a great job and now he wants me to set up a locally hosted wordpress and ‘make sure it’s running this front end’.
    What does this mean? I did some research on how CMSs work and asked my coworkers about it, and what I get from that is basically you’re putting your webpage to life and allowing your ‘clients’ or whoever you’re selling your web services to, to maneuver around your webpage and modify it at their own pace?

    Am I understanding this correctly or did I misunderstand it?
    CMS is basically a framework/a package of CSS/PHP/JS files that makes your life way easier?

    Lastly, after I’m done with the HTML/CSS (frontend), where or how do I set things up on wordpress? Can you guys refer me to any resources that thoroughly teaches us how to use CMS from scratch?

    -Actually, my coworkers told me that the reason why I’m doing this all from scratch (creating html/css files) is because clients have their own specific needs, hence we have to create our own customized themes for them.

    Sorry if I sound like a mess, I don’t even know what my exact questions are. I just don’t know where to go from here. I’m kinda stuck.
    Please help me out I would really appreciate it.

    Thanks in advance,

    RushingP.

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