WordPress 2.8 Theme Design

Create flexible, powerful, and professional themes for your WordPress blogs and web sites

Key Features

• Take control of the look and feel of your WordPress site by creating fully functional unique themes that cover the latest WordPress features
• Add interactivity to your themes using Flash and AJAX techniques
• Expert guidance with practical step-by-step instructions for custom theme design
• Includes design tips, tricks, and troubleshooting ideas

Book Description

What you will learn

• Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
• Create detailed designs and code them up
• Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
• Debug and validate your theme using the W3C s XHTML and CSS validation tools
• Customize and tweak your theme s layout
• Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
• Download and install useful plugins and widgetize your theme
• Improve post and page content using jQuery
• Enhance the interactivity of your themes using Flash
• Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.8 template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions

Who this book is for

This book can be used by WordPress users or visual designers (with no server-side scripting or programming experience) who are used to working with the common industry-standard tools like PhotoShop and Dreamweaver or other popular graphic, HTML, and text editors.
Regardless of your web development skill-set or level, you'll find clear, step-by-step instructions, but familiarity with a broad range of web development skills and WordPress know-how will allow you to gain maximum benefit from this book.