kgracer

I think it understand it for the most part now. I just took the classic index template and took out the php that I thought was all blog-related until I was left with what I wanted (the storycontent and content php code)… then I was able to style it with CSS and works great now.

Sorry for all of the confusion, but I do appreciate your time. Thanks again.

Thanks so much. I will be taking a look at your pages later today and hopefully coming back to be more specific and clear if I am still confused.

Thanks for clearing that up (#2) – my response is, yes, I am here to do that, but I’m also here to get help to use WP on 3 other sites for other people in a similar way. My dilemma is that I’ve hand-coded sites for a few other clients, and now I have no way for them to maintain them. I considered TXP but came to the conclusion that WP would be best for what I want to do.

I’ll try to make this more clear the best I can. I want to include some content on each Page of the site, but I don’t want it to look like a blog post (no comments, meta info, etc.). In html this would be <p>s and headings wrapped in <div>s, but to save time I don’t want my clients (or myself once the site is designed) to have to hand-code into the editor on the Write/Page of WP every time an update is needed, so I need to know what WP is pulling from my index file to put that content on a Page when I Write/Page. From what I’ve read in the codex, this can be different for each Page, right? But I don’t want the Pages to look like posts unless it’s the blog page. So what do I put into the index file to get my heading and 2-3 paragraphs to show up on each of the other Pages (like the “pricing info” and “about” info. on the site I linked to)?

I apologize for my lack of clarity, and you are very wrong in your assumption. I came here to get help, not to showcase my work. I am 2 weeks into WP and literally don’t know what to do next to get these Pages up, so I came here for help. I have only spent a total of 3 hours on the WP forum; I didn’t know it was in bad taste to post images! I thought that would help you see what I’m trying to do. Here is a link to a site with the similar idea I want (and it is not my work!) if that would help:

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Since whooami is bothered by me, is there anyone else out there who really wants to help? I just started freelance web design last year, so I can assure you that I don’t feel very confident in “my work” yet. I didn’t even get my degree in this – I’m doing it late at night when my 3 kids are asleep – all the more reason to work very hard and all the more reason to feel frustrated at something that should be more simple than I am making it. (And just to be clear I code every site in the back-end with html/css. Please don’t assume I’m ignorant about standards.)

Everything I’m reading says something to the effect of “code what you want into the index.php file….” I know what I want in xhtml and css, but I don’t know how to make it work on the front-end (which template tags to leave in). I apologize if this is unclear, but that’s because I don’t know what I’m doing.

I understand that I need to create the design of my static page in xhtml and css, and I did that. It’s what to put in my index.php file, however, to pull my Pages’ content (title and <p> or body text) to each particular Page. I was hoping that once I understand the structure for the index, that all the other Pages will make easy sense.

For example, looking at the screenshot link, I want the “Quality and Affordable Web Design” heading in the title of a Write/Page field and the 2 paragraphs below it in the text field when I write a new Page. Since I’ve cleaned out my index.php file, what do I put back in it to do this? I’m assuming from what I read that it’s not the Loop but something else.

sorry

This image is a mockup of what I want to do…

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