Hello, No, i am not looking for people backing up my opinion. I don't need to have someone to tell me "oh yeah, you're right, of course". For example i know for sure that a simple webdesigner that has little PHP or ASP knowledge will surely choose to create a theme for something like Wordpress, because for him it would be verry hard to create a whole website from scratch. That's the reason i gave so many details to the question, so that it is understood that i'm not in such a position. Basically my question, if i were to reformulate, would be: if you're experienced enough, what is easier to do: something from scratch (that you can later reuse easily, since you wrote it) or go ahead and digg into something already done by someone else, in this case Wordpress. And yes, i do know that you can make a wordpress website look totally different, just by the way you write your HTML, but that's not what i meant there. Anyway, your answer was good enough, so thanks :)

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Hello fellow programmers, I have a dilema, at this point in time, and i was wondering if someone could give an opinion. This post is going to be a little longer than the usual posts, because i have to explain all the pros and cons as far as i see them, so bear with me. I am an experienced programmer with good knowledge of C++, Win32 API, Flash/ActionScript 2, PHP, MySQL and i can also handle Javascript enough to do something. All the websites that i have created so far were made from scratch, whether they were static or had an admin control panel behind. Recently i have seen myself put in a position to have to learn how to code a Wordpress theme and also make some structure and functionality changes to the default Wordpress framework, so that it suits my needs. I have taken a look at a few tutorials and at the standard Wordpress theme and i am not yet convinced it is worth the pain. I could build an entire CMS of my own, first to suit only my current needs but also taking account of possible future features that i may desire. The only thing is it might take longer to do that. Here's what i hate about Wordpress: 1. Many people like it because it is verry popular: my honest opinion is that no one gives a damn about what framework was used to create a website; a simple visitor will, many times, not even know what Wordpress is. 2. Most wordpress websites look like a blog, even though they are not; and that's because Wordpress is a blogging framework. That is not something to desire when you want a simple presentation website, a portfolio website, etc. 3. I have also seen people have the wrong opinion that Wordpress is best for SEO and everything else is crap; that is totally wrong since, as you all know, it all depends on how you write your HTML; 4. A wordpress is not exactly easy to manage (admin panel) if you are an average user or below. Besides that, many times you have a lot of options that you do not need, so giving this to a client ... i don't know; 5. creating a simple theme may be simple, but adding advanced functionality to the whole website is not so simple; 6. some things do not come in standard in Wordpress; for example multi-language, the ability to detect if the user is on a computer or portable device (and hence switch to another theme, more apropriate). Yes, i know there are plugins, but still .. The only good thing that i see in learning Wordpress is that you can make money by selling themes on special websites. So, my dillema is: is it worth the time and energy con

The problem was that hInst was NULL ! Thank you anyway :) !!!!!!! http://gxsoftware.idilis.ro

GetLastError() returns 1814, and FormatMessage() for this error number says: "The specified resource name cannot be found in the image file." :((

This type of resource is usualy not to be modified once you set it. Why would you want to change it from within your program ? I use the following code lines in the "resource.rc" file: #ifndef _MAC //////////////////// // Version Info VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO FILEVERSION 0,0,0,0 PRODUCTVERSION 0,0,0,0 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL #ifdef _DEBUG FILEFLAGS 0x1L #else FILEFLAGS 0x0L #endif FILEOS 0x40004L FILETYPE 0x1L FILESUBTYPE 0x0L { BLOCK "StringFileInfo" { BLOCK "041804b0" { VALUE "Comments", "\0" VALUE "CompanyName", "\0" VALUE "FileDescription", "\0" VALUE "FileVersion", "0.0.0.0\0" VALUE "InternalName", "\0" VALUE "LegalCopyright", "\0" VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "\0" VALUE "OriginalFilename", "\0" VALUE "PrivateBuild", "0\0" VALUE "ProductName", "\0" VALUE "ProductVersion", "0.0.0.0\0" // here you can insert other values of your own, like: // VALUE "DISCLAIMER", "Your own Disclaimer\0" } } BLOCK "VarFileInfo" { VALUE "Translation", 0x418, 1200 } } #endif // !_MAC

I use Bloodshed Dev-C++ IDE with MINGW compiler, so i don't have a resource editor !

Hi there ! I want to load a bitmap from inside my application in order to display it on a dialog box ! In "resource.h" file i wrote: "#define IDB_BITMAP_SPLASH 500" In "resource.rc" file i wrote: "IDB_BITMAP_SPLASH BITMAP "SPLASH.BMP", where SPLASH.BMP is the name of my bitmap file. In "main.cpp" file i wrote: "HBITMAP hBitmap=(HBITMAP)LoadBitmap(hInst,MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BITMAP_SPLASH));", where "hInst" is my application's instance handle. The problem is that this function is returning NULL. I've also tried with "LoadImage()" and "LoadResource()" functions. None of them work ! I've tried instead of MAKEINTRESOURCE to simply write "Splash.bmp" as if i were loading it directly from the file. Does not work ! Can anyone help me :confused:? I'm using Windows 2000 SP4 and i'm not writing this in MFC, but in simple Win32API. ThankYou :)!!!

if i make a program that should handle a certain file type (for example, i want to make another notepad that should handle files of extension .txt), what do i have to do to associate that file type (in my case .txt) with my own program (in my case, let's say GNotepad.exe) so that by double-clicking a .txt file in the explorer it should open my notepad instead of the classic one ? oh, and i would reaaaaaaly apreciate if you have an example of source code. thanX a lot :) ...