Yes, I said “evil”. Because it is.

I belong to a couple of awesome networking lists. On one of these lists, recently, someone was asking about a possible solution to what is truly a common problem for us designers/programmers who provide CMS solutions for our clients. The problem?

Microsoft Word.

All of you reading this…how many of you have create an awesome site design with pristine code and gorgeous formatting, and your client is all “hooray!”…and promptly starts writing their content up in Microsoft Word, and the C&P’s the stuff into the CMS you’ve just made for them? (Come on, I know you’re out there. Raise your hands.)

I have two clients, currently that do this. No matter what plugins I’ve installed, and no matter how many different ways I instruct them on how to do it correctly (even with using their beloved Word!) they don’t do it. They just keep C&P-ing from Word, and keep calling me when the site breaks because of it.

Now, to why I am evil.
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Hello all! yes, yes, I know I’m late on my promised date. I’ve actually been compiling a list of ideas on topics to write a bout - and I’ve finally decided to choose one and go with it. (Yeah, I know I said it would be “How to Turn Your Existing Site Into a WordPress Theme” - but that sucker is actually taking a lot more time than I’d originally thought. But I swear, I’m working on it. It’s in my “drafts” right now!)

So. I decided a smaller step would be to show you how to get the most out of your widgets. You can choose whatever you want - what I’ll be touching on is how to make more than one “sidebar” and apply widgets to them.

“Sidebar” is in quotes because - you won’t believe this - you don’t HAVE to put them in your sidebar. You can put those suckers anywhere you damn well please. How cool would it be to have your site’s content separated by a widget that would hold - whatever you’d like it to hold? Or Widgetizing your footer? or you header? Or how about having a different set of widgetized sidebars based on what page you’re on?

You can do that?

You bettah believe it, suckah!
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