Hey people,
I’ve started taking on more clients than I have in the past and their demands that I would like to be able to handle are starting to include things a CMS is necessary for. Wordpress seems to be the most popular, although I know there are others.
My question for the community is this: When you build a site with CMS/WP in mind, do you go about your business normally (getting an HTML doc, CSS files, and your javascript going and build the site) or with WP does everyone just use themes? I dont want to have to use bs proprietary stuff if I can avoid it. What Im looking for is to add to my workflow not completely change it. I like using SASS and CSS/JS libraries and styling my sites with those languages, and I thought thats how the world made websites. Im just starting to dive into CMS to allow my clients to dynamically add content to their site (make posts).
I want to be able to go about building a site as usual and ADD the functionality of the CMS for the client and style the different elements of how a post would look to match the rest of the design and BAM! My original site but where my client can continue to make posts/pages as they see fit. I have no problem with themes for the posts but I dont get how anyone (unless they want it to be super easy/fast) would like having to go in and alter code someone else wrote and have a clunky theme with all this extra code that you wouldnt even know exists. (Think WYSISYG like Muse)
If Im way off base in terms of how people use WP, please educate me.
Thank you for any help in all of this!