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creativejuicestudio
01-15-2010, 12:36 PM
I have to say I LOVE WORDPRESS more and more every day. It has just about everything.
For those of you who design on wordpress, what is your best advice for learning it. I've played around with customizing templates but I want to be able to design and then code it for wordpress. Any advice?
For those of you who design on wordpress, what is your best advice for learning it. I've played around with customizing templates but I want to be able to design and then code it for wordpress. Any advice?
scadesigns
01-15-2010, 03:09 PM
That's how I started, using premade themes and customizing them. Once I understood that I moved on and designed my own themes from scratch. First I designed them in photoshop then coded them for wordpress. There is so much you can do, I learn something new every day.
mybrokengnome
01-15-2010, 03:35 PM
The best thing you can do is get in there and mess around with themes and such. It'll help a lot if you can program in PHP. I just finished a site with a highly customized template, complete with code to make the admin menu's different, custom widgets, plugins, shopping cart, invoice system, paypal processing w/ IPN notifications.
Being able to make a theme with just a header, footer, index, single, and archive pages is really easy, for the most part you can just copy the structure of other themes. Doing anything more than that is complicated, and not always documented, so you just need to get in there, dig through it, and brush up on your PHP a lot!
Being able to make a theme with just a header, footer, index, single, and archive pages is really easy, for the most part you can just copy the structure of other themes. Doing anything more than that is complicated, and not always documented, so you just need to get in there, dig through it, and brush up on your PHP a lot!
