Hi to all....

In wordpress u have plugins to insert content on auto.

How does one do this with a normal HTML site?

Thanks.
Riaan

Hiya Riaan,

When you code with HTML it's done manually with code. There are scripts and applets that you can insert into your code just like you install them on Wordpress, the difference is you are doing it within the code and not installing an application automatically. There are no real "automatic" installations, but there are a lot of shortcut tools for helping with adding specific codes, creating menus, tables and many other things. Just that you do need to learn a bit about HTML if you haven't already in order to be able to put the scripts in and of course to be able to search for the ones you're looking for.

Many people have some really great scripts running on their sites and a lot of the people here share a lot of scripts that they find around the web too. Very good people here that help with those things. Just ask if you're looking for something in particular and most likely someone has found it somewhere

Hi Jo Ann.

The scripts that i would like to install, is to insert is syndicated content from eg. Yahoo Answers and YouTube. I do unfortunately not ave the skills to write any of the scripts.

Would a WP plugin script not be able to work directly into my site?

No unfortunately it doesn't work that way as they are different programming languages, and many of the plugins and modules you find on Wordpress are written specifically to work with only Wordpress.

There are however, other little programs that CoffeeCup has created for things like RSS feeds. I don't know if those will work for putting Yahoo and Youtube content on it or not, but someone else may have some ideas for that. I'm sure there are a lot of scripts that can be used for that purpose.

If' you re interested in learning HTML there are a ton of sites out there that have tutorials. Just run a Google search on "HTML Tutorial" and you'll see plenty. I would suggest also learning CSS to help you learn how to style your pages and position things etc. If you're not wanting to learn the Coding setup of making websites, CoffeeCup also has the Visual Site Designer which allows you to do things visually and move them around by drag and drop type system.

Give them a try and see if you like them. You can use the trial versions for 30 days if I recall correctly and they are almost fully functional (just a few things not in the trials, but not that many that you can't get a very good idea of which might be best for you). Try the HTML Editor and the Visual Site Designer out and see what they are like. They have some pretty good PDF Help built into the programs, and CoffeeCup also sells a PDF Book on creating websites that might be helpful also.

Let us know if you need any assistance and good luck whichever way you decide to go

Jo Ann.

Thanks for your reply. Will dig around a bit in the Coffee cup HTML editor help files.

I would like to add that it seems that WP is becoming very popular, if you look at all the plugins ect. that is out there for it.
For the novice, like me it is extremely quick and easy (and cheap) to set up a website with WP compared to traditional HTML.

Regards.
Riaan

Hiya Riaan,

I would agree with you there for sure, these types of sites have made it extremely possible for many people to create a site even without any HTML or PHP knowledge, it isn't always the easiest thing in the world to work with for someone that isn't creative inclined, meaning they don't have a good intuition on how to make things work in a site, but it's still quite nice for the basic novice that has the ability to work out issues and problems.

I myself have a Wordpress site on one of my personal sites just to learn it and see how it works. I might keep it, we'll see lol, I change it so much I don't bother worrying about if something better comes along that I can check out hehe. I have to say though, I still prefer HTML over those types of sites, even though it's a little steeper learning curve and things need to be done manually which you need to find the good scripts for etc., but the ability to do almost anything you want versus being tied into however someone else built a theme and you're stuck with the design, makes it all worth it.

This way I can do whatever I want. If I try a theme and I love much of it but I don't like some parts of it I can change it any way I like. With sites like Wordpress and Joomla etc. unless you have good knowledge of theme design for those CMS type sites, you are stuck with how they have it and basically the most you can do is move a few elements around or change some images and colors. This of course if you don't have a lot of knowlege on how things work. If you do then you can take something that looks like this Spooky theme:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/spooky

And turn it into this (my son's new site for his music business that I've been working on for him in Wordpress, not finished yet but getting there)
http://proudayou.com

After creating the images for him we searched around to find a theme that fit his needs and had to have total transparency pretty much to accommodate the background. You really can do a lot in Wordpress if you have the inclination to learn how it all works, but....

In the end, knowing how the code functions makes a whole lot of difference. Much of Wordpress is built on CSS as far as how it's all styled up, so learning HTML and CSS would benefit you no matter what type of site you work with