Comments on: How To Use WordPress as a Landing Page

By: tim

tim — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:24:22 +0000

The newest version is great for designing landers for an apprentice coder (me). Just a click to remove header and footer and the rotating image leaf is great for gif type animation. But making multiple different landers on one site and getting CPVlab code into the right place may prove a bridge too far.

By: ctrtard

ctrtard — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:57:26 +0000

I actually bought Headway on someone’s recommendation. It seems powerful, but trying to make some simple mods turned out to be a nightmare. Their documentation kind of sucks. After hours wasted, I asked for a refund. Then I made my mod on a regular WP theme in about an hour with the help of WordPress Codex.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:47:01 +0000

If you ever do a tutorial about using the Headway theme to make multiple landers I would be very intersted in that.
Thanks

By: flux

flux — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:54:04 +0000

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By: ctrtard

ctrtard — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:35:02 +0000

I think the table usability thing is more and more about mobile browsers. Forcing the width of a table can cause problems when a mobile browser (iphone, android, etc.) have a limited display width.

That being said, I agree. I don’t see them a big deal. For quick layouts they can’t be beat. Although if someone wants to avoid them, a css framework like bluebrint can work very well.

Glad you like the post. Thanks for reading and commenting.

By: Nick Norris

Nick Norris — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:14:38 +0000

Not sure how tables effect usability, but from a standards standpoint, they are old school.

Tables are still super easy to use, especially when you’re throwing up fast landing pages. I use WP for review sites, fake blogs, real blogs, etc.. And I use tables to quickly layout the content. Tables are easier and faster than divs, so I’m not sure why you said they are “not good”… They are good, but not up to current standards.

This was a great post! Thanks!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:08:41 +0000

Yah.. or you could just use WP Spire… lol

By: James Jeffery

James Jeffery — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:55:54 +0000

I like the tutorial, but tables are not good for laying out webpages. Very old school and not good on the accessibility and usability front.

Never the less, the information was good.

By: ctrtard

ctrtard — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:49:28 +0000

Well the code as detailed above only modifies one specific theme. I would switch to another theme and see if the problem persists. If it does, then the error is with wordpress and maybe htaccess/mod rewrite.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:51:13 +0000

Got a problem trying to implement this. After following it to the letter, the only way I can avoid the dreaded “404″ is to manually type in “mywebsite.com/?post=3″. I set my permalinks to ?%postname%? and created them as pages. Stumped.