WordPress 3.2 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

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In Detail
Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a website, especially in WordPress. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image; it ensures standards compliance and creates easily navigable layouts. However, most WordPress users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward.

The book will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It's easy to create powerful and professional themes for your WordPress website when you've got this book to hand. It covers step-by-step instructions for creating a robust and flexible WordPress theme, along with best practices for theme development.

Whether you're working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, this book will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site's design and branding. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme's template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live, this book reviews the best practices.

You'll be walked through setting up an HTML and CSS layout, enhancing that layout with graphics constructed in popular open source programs. You'll then learn how to code that design up into a basic functioning theme and even add fascinating and useful enhancements. You'll end up with a well designed, modern theme and the know-how to apply any of its features to any custom theme you design yourself.

Approach
A Beginner's Guide packed with clear step-by-step instructions to create powerful and professional themes for your WordPress website

Who this book is for
This book targets WordPress users and visual designers who are used to working with the common industry-standard tools like PhotoShop and Dreamweaver or other popular graphic, HTML, and text editors. No server-side scripting or programming experience is required.

Per maggiori informazioni: il volume "WordPress 3.2 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide" di Tessa Blakeley Silver, edito da Packt Publishing Limited, è in vendita anche su IBS.it al prezzo di Euro 28,59 e come eBook in formato Kindle su Amazon.it al prezzo di Euro 15,85.