Build a Insurance Website: 101

[Insurancetechhead]

Hey all,

As most people know my brothers and I are building a program and ask a lot of questions from the agents on the forum (we do a lot of polls!) We would like to give back and noticed there were a lot of DIY guys in the insurance industry, so we thought it might be helpful if we show everyone how to build a site. This will probably be a 3-4 part series.

We know that projects like this can be intimidating at first, so if you have any questions feel free to PM us or post on this thread and we will help as fast as we can.

So without further ado here is the first part of Build an insurance website 101

BEFORE YOU GET STARTED

Pre-start - YouTube

apache friends - very easy apache, mysql, php and perl installation without hassles
Sublime Text - Download
concrete5 - Free CMS | Open Source Content Management System


CREATE THE DATABASE

Create a Database - YouTube

LOAD CONCRETE5

Load Concrete5 - YouTube

DESCRIPTION.TXT & THUMBNAIL.PNG

View.text & Description.png - YouTube

CREATING DEFAULT.PHP

build your first default.php - YouTube

Code used in this section

<?php $a = new Area('Main');
$a->display($c); ?>

<?php $this->inc('elements/header.php'); ?>

<?php $this->inc('elements/footer.php'); ?>

HEADER.PHP & FOOTER.PHP

Header & Footer - YouTube

Code used in this section

<?php Loader::element('header_required'); ?>

 <?php Loader::element('footer_required'); ?>

<?=$this->getThemePath()?>/

<?php 
$a = new GlobalArea('Site Logo');
$a->display();
?>

CREATING VIEW.PHP

view.php - YouTube

Code used in this section

<?php $this->inc('elements/header.php'); ?>

<?php $this->inc('elements/footer.php'); ?>

<?php print $innerContent; ?>

HOW TO INSTALL YOUR THEME

How to select your theme - YouTube

 

[aplusr]

I know that there are a lot of DIY guys in the insurance industry but this seems like a bit much! I think the 7 hour WordPress (or Joomla or Drupal, depending on your CMS) tutorial on Lynda.com might be more appropriate for business owners who are now managing the website after it's been built by a Web Designer.