I am not a web designer, I just play one on teevee, so I am quite likely overthinking this completely:
I am building a site for a client - basically it's a graphic header, graphic footer, the left panel is clear with alternating stock images, and the right panel has text and navigation. Clean and simple.
I'm using wordpress for the back end, because the client wants to be able to post case studies, and tag them, but not have them linked on the main page like blog entries - instead, she wants visitors to click on the "clients" page, which will then have a link to the case studies. THere is the possibliity that she may, in the future, want a blog.
So, I built the first sample using a "build your own theme"/"script your own php" tutorial - and that was confusing. I am ok with CSS and coding and calling for the header and footer, etc, and the rotating images and all that - I could code this site in html and css and it would be completely and totally functional - except for the updating case studies - which is why I turned to wordpress...
So, my (multipart) question is:
1 - Is there a way to build a site and only use the updating feature for the blogging parts - eveyrthing else coded the way I know how, then learn the wordpress blog part only? Like embedding the wordpress stuff into the one "case studies" page and only use the pho code on that single page to call for the entries that the client updates - and maybe create an external list of the entries somewhere, should she eventually want it?
2. Would this be more managable in Contribute? Does she need a copy of Contribute to update her stuff, or can she sign into a web module to make her changes? (I've got the CS3 web package, but haven't looked very hard at contribute)
3. IS this question better posed in the Webdev community?
Thank you so much - I've finally got 3 days off of work, and I want to finish this site and make it go live in the next week so I can work on other projects.