What to provide someone working on my site?

I want to pay someone to help develop a WordPress blog. I am brand new to all of this.

1.) What information should I provide to the person helping me?
2.) Is there anything I should be concerned with while doing this?
3.) Can I create an account just for that person?

Thanks!!!

The easiest way is to create a New FTP user for the domain where it's hosted. Then give them the FTP password so they can upload themes and plugins. And, of course, the WP Admin login.

This gives them the keys to that kingdom. If you don't trust that person, you should find someone else.

Better yet, do it yourself. You'll learn tons and be pretty self sufficient. Whenever you get stuck, you can post here or in the WordPress forums. There's a huge support community for WordPress eager to help out new users.

-Scott

I currently have done absolutely nothing with my Dreamhost account.

1. What is the absolute worst that someone could do if I, as you said, "give the keys to the kingdom?"

2. I already designed the look and feel of the pages I want to create in WordPress. However, I just do not know how to transform this into a WordPress site without having to slice up the whole thing from Photoshop and export the Photoshop created code into WordPress (which I'm guessing will result in a highly inefficient design). Is there an easy way to go from a .PSD to a functional WordPress site?

Thanks!!!!!

1) The absolute worst is that they could install a backdoor. It gets less worse from there, ranging from your site mysteriously breaking due to coding kludges all the way to small annoyances that are difficult to track down.

2) Start looking through the theme repository for something that looks very much like what you want and modify that theme. This will also help you understand the constraints of theme layout within WordPress and may cause you to alter your design to suit the functionality.

-Scott

Sorry for my ignorance and thank you for your patience!!

1.) Is there an easy way to detect a backdoor? To scan for one?

2.) Can a WordPress theme be modified in DreamWeaver?

Thanks!!!

1. No

2. Yes - and there's likely an mxp available for DW to work with WP themes.




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I know this may not be the answer you want..
... but ...
I would really recommend that you learn how to run your own wordpress blog.

WP is perhaps the easiest online software to learn to use.
If you have one blog you will no doubt have several so your investment in time will pay you back many times over.

My sig file contains links to free tools that will help you. (See my note below - admin)

All the best.

( sleazy linkspam not at all related to the subject discussed, deleted as misleading given the text above)Edited by rlparker on 10/18/09 10:00 AM (server time).

The first part of your post here had some merit, and is probably good advice, but

In reply to:

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My sig file contains links to free tools that will help you.

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is at best disingenuous, and at worst just a low life link spam.

Giving someone on a forum a link "to help" them that has *no* relationship to their problem or issue, but is rather to a page touting products you are hustling is not appreciated here.

This is particularly true in a "beginner's forum" where it is likely the reader might not be savvy to your low-life marketing ploy and click the link thinking there might be something of value related to their problem at the other end.

You post has been edited, and your user banned - go link-spam somewhere else.

--rlparker
--DreamHost Tech Support