…brilliantly.

This site explains the steps for creating a WordPress site, details its advantages, provides articles, video tutorials, ideas, themes, you name it… A fantastic all-round resource that I wish I’d written myself. http://wordpresscms.ithemes.com/

Of course, if it still looks a tad intimidating and you’d prefer things explained in person or want someone who’s done this all many times before get in touch!

Meanwhile another WordPress site just went live, my parents are trying to sell a house in Somerset, England www.maycottageksm.co.uk.

GOJoven’s a non-profit dedicated to training young leaders in sexual and reproductive health in Latin America. I’ve been working with them on translations, graphic design and web work for the last four years. We recently decided to rehaul the entire site as a WordPress install so it’s easier to search, is more interactive and editable than before.

Although the program’s audience is mainly Spanish-speaking, there’s also a lot of interest from monolingual English speakers (funders, organizers, press, etc) so I translated tens of thousands of wordsworth of content from English to Spanish and vice versa and installed a parallel WordPress site along with a choose-your-language landing page.

The site has the following features provided by plugins and WordPress’ own innate functionality:

• Pop-up photo gallery
• Printable pages
• Image-maps with links
• News section (maintained as a separate category)
• 3 separate contact forms that also store all input in a database.
• Comment system for the Fellows bios and news items
• Drop-down menu navigation
• Automatic newsletter subscription
• And much more…

It’s also a demonstration of how a template can be made to look completely different by changing out the images, CSS and PHP in a few files.

GOJoven is based on Brian Gardner’s Revolution theme. I used the same template for signotequila.org but as you can see both are highly distinguishable.