waynebnorris

I did this as a static page, of course, but I want to locate a picture at the top, with a few hyperlink text fields in blocks at the right, then another picture in the middle, and then two pictures and a second menu in the bottom third of the page.

I previewed 1,027 single-column templates and short-listed about 40 of them, and have tried my page with about 7 so far. None seem to offer the flexibility to put images on the top, middle, AND bottoms.

What I am wondering is whether WordPress is really the proper platform for genuine static pages, or if its historical orientation as a blog / magazine ECM environment actually precludes free-form static pages of the type I want to create [I need to make 16 of them].

I could do them in native HTML5/CSS3, but that clearly takes a long time. I suppose I could customize templates in WordPress in PHP, but I don’t know PHP yet, and would need to learn the WordPress theme format. [I wrote code for about 20 years, including c, FORTRAN, Pascal, and assembly language, so it’s not my first trip to the rodeo on that front.]

Suggestions? I need to get this out quickly, and do not want to waste a lot of time with WordPress if it’s the wrong path.

Incidentally, it’s MARVELOUS for its intended purpose. I just want to be sure I’m not wasting a lot of time with a crescent wrench, when what I needed was a pair of pliers. ??