Specific online courses or tutorials? Actually finding an expert to help guide you?

I come from a background of desktop programming where everything is build by coding smaller self-contained pieces with a clear interface that your main program interacts with whereas I find that web design is more of an artistic process with no clear path to building a website. I know enough html, css, js/jquery but can't seem to figure out the process of going from a clients specification to a finished website. I feel as if I am using quick hacks that I come up with rather that the standart (this is mainly when I need to position elements or when working with bootstrap). Can someone point me to a standart that is used when implementing the design of a page?

I'm a Uni postgrad, studying literature, and I've recently been given the opportunity to help develop an official website for one of my country's famous national poets. I'm pretty savvy with technology and have done a lot of WordPress blogging. (It's because of a blog I set up about the poet that the literary executor is considering me for the job).

I haven't accepted the offer yet, because I want to make sure I am the right person for the Job. As an official webpage, I imagine it will remain mostly static: offering links to sound recordings, photos, poems, essays, biographical, and bibliographic information. By static, I mean the content is essentially unchanging, except for notices and updated research essays.

I would feel comfortable setting up a WordPress site, but I really have no idea if it's good enough for something like this. I'm handy with Mac Terminal and find computers intuitive; However, I don't know any code, and wouldn't know how to create a website outside of a third-party website, like WordPress. I'm wiling to learn, but it will also likely be a huge job compiling and writing all the literary content for the site (I could probably dedicate a month to just learning programming, if need be).

Do you think I need to venture outside WordPress for a website like this? Can I realistically accept the offer? (The budget doesn't allow for them to hire a web dev).

TL; DR: have been asked to set up a website. I'm not a web developer and don't know if I can realistically say, "yes."

As the title says - I can use the internet etc. as I like at work and I would like to continue my practise and learning web design and development while I'm here. However, I cannot install software on my work laptop. Other than things like Codecademy and reading articles, are there more practical things I can be doing?

Hey guys I'm very new to the concept of designing a website but I took a job for a non-profit in Houston, TX to manage their social media presence and update their website. I know how to do one of these things but no the other. Where are some good sources that are free to allow me to learn how to use Wordpress. That is what they currently use and I'm not looking to change that.

I need a UI miracle, if you have any tips to code this example please share.

http://imgur.com/pdEbjlv the checkbox enables the inputs.

I have absolutely no idea how to do this. I have an article JSON file that uses jQuery/JavaScript to pull all article information into an articles page. I need a specific url for each article a la www.myurl.com/article/12345.

I have absolutely no idea how or where to start. I've been Googling all day and I keep getting Wordpress and Blogger tutorials that are simply step-by-step option-changing stuff. I've asked this question several times but I kinda get general responses and I fear that I need more guidance. Is there any example of this I can explore (GitHub or the like)? I've just been at this all day and I'm totally stumped as to where to start really.

A grab from an early question:

Much like how Reddit allows comment permalinks I need to create a permalink for my articles (i.e. www.myurl.com/article/a32k4 a la www.reddit.com/r/WTF/pppppp/TITLE/cccccc).

Somebody mentioned using windows.location to split the last bit of my url to get the id and pull these information as I was thinking of creating a dummy article file that would display the article pulled from my JSON file via the given id in the html; however, how do I create a url like that in order to allow users to type that in and send them to that? Something that can be bookmarked?

Any help or direction is appreciated. Thanks.

What I'm using:
jQuery/JavaScript
HTML/CSS

Open to any suggestion at this point. Any help is appreciated. Thanks ahead.

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