WordPress theme design : a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes /: a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tessa Blakeley Silver.
• Other Names: Silver, Tessa Blakeley
• Contents: WordPress Theme Design; WordPress Theme Design; Credits; About the Author; Preface; What This Book Covers; What You Need for This Book; Who This Book is For; Conventions; Reader Feedback; Customer Support; Downloading the Example Code for the Book; Errata; Questions; 1. Getting Started as a WordPress Theme Designer; WordPress Perks; Does a WordPress Site Have to Be a Blog?; Pick a Theme or Design Your Own?; Drawbacks to Using a Pre-Made Theme; This Book's Approach; Things You'll Need to Know; WordPress; CSS; XHTML; PHP; Not Necessary, but Helpful; Tools of the Trade; HTML Editor. Graphic EditorFirefox; We'll Be Developing for Firefox First, then IE; Summary; 2. Theme Design and Approach; Things to Consider; Types of Blogs; Plug-ins and Widgets; Getting Ready to Design; We Have a Problem; It Gets Worse; The Solution -- Rapid Design Comping; Let's Get Started; Sketch It; Consider Usability; Start with the Structure; The DOCTYPE; The Main Body; Attach the Basic StyleSheet; Basic Semantic XHTML Structure; Adding-Text Typography; Start with the Text; Font Choices; Cascading Fonts; Font Sizing; Paragraphs; Default Links; The Layout; ; Navigation. More Navigation-WordPress Specific Styles (OK, Style)Color Schemes; Two-Minute Color Schemes; Color Schemes with Photoshop; Adding Color to Your CSS; Create the Graphical Elements; Relax and Have Fun Designing; Slice and Export; Summary; 3. Coding It Up; Got WordPress?; Understanding the WordPress Theme; Your WordPress Work Flow; Let's Build Our Theme; Tabula Rasa; Including WordPress Content; The Loop; The Sidebar; Breaking It Up-Separating Your Theme Into Template Files; The Home Page; Internal Pages; Static Pages; ; Quick Recap; Fun with Other Page Layouts; Don't Forget About Your 404 Page. Describing Your ThemeLicensing?; Create a ReadMe.txt File; Zip It Up; No Way to Zip?; One Last Test; Get Some FeedBack and Track It; Summary; 6. WordPress Reference; Class Styles Generated by WordPress; Using the Template Selector Feature; Template Hierarchy; New Template Tag in 2.5; Great Template Tags for Tags from 2.3; Adding Tag Display to Your Theme; General Template Tags-the Least You Need to Know; Include Tags; Custom Includes-Streamline Your Theme; The Loop Functions; WordPress Core Functions; Summary; 7. Dynamic Menus and Interactive Elements; DYI or Plug-ins?; Dynamic Menus?
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource ([v], 211 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 006.7; Blogs; Electronic journals; Web sites -- Design; Blogs -- Design; Blogs -- Management; Blogs; Electronic journals; Web sites -- Design; Blogs -- Design; Blogs -- Management; WordPress (Electronic resource); COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- General; COMPUTERS -- Web -- User Generated Content; COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia; COMPUTERS -- Web -- Site Design; Blogs; Electronic journals; Web sites -- Design; Blogs -- Design; Blogs -- Management; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847193100; 1847193102; 9781847193094; 1847193099
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.