Sweet Thursday Web Development: Wordpress Web Sites

ARTK12 is a website that features “Art History Curriculum Disguised as Fun.” The site sells books and projects. Site owner Kristin Draeger has had 4 other domain names for various other academic subjects that have been collecting dust for the last couple of years. Her plan for these domains is to list the books she has used while educating her son both for informational purposes for other homeschooling parents and also to make a little extra money through Amazon.com’s astore feature.

The Task

What we wanted to do was create, as quickly as possible, 4 related websites each of which would house a home page with the Amazon.com astore, a couple of other pages (about, contact, etc) and a blogging area. WordPress and Artisteer was the perfect solution.

By using Artisteer we created one template as our overall layout design. Then we tweaked each of these templates to match the theme color of the academic subject. WordPress is very versatile so I created a WordPress Template page for the astore as this needed a completely different layout.

The basic structure of these sites was completed in about a day. Once all the books are loaded into the astore via Amazon.com’s administrative area, the sites will be ready to go live.

This project went a little beyond the structure of One Day Websites, but the basic idea is still there: need a quality, quickly designed, inexpensive website? This is the ticket.

Check back in the next couple of weeks (when the sites go live) for links and images of the 4 new WordPress websites.

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