How Do You Make Your Website?

[josesantos]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Just because WordPress and other CMS's are easy to use out of the box doesn't mean they can't be customized extensively and the students won't understand the functionality of the code.

Have them develop a custom theme (or heavily modify an existing one), and instead of using plugins for certain functionality, create it from scratch.

When it comes to web design, why re-invent the wheel?

That's how we did it. Using WordPress as a CMS makes it easy for everyone to make pages on our site, but we wrote a custom theme in Notepad++/Sublime Text.