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WordPress 2.8 Theme Design.
Theme design can be approached from two angles. The first is simplicity; sometimes it suits the client and/or the site to go as bare-bones as possible. In that case, it's quick and easy to take a very basic, pre-made theme and modify it. The second is "Unique and Beautiful". Occasiona...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Packt Publishing
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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 an already built theme; Using theme frameworks; This book's approach; Core technology you should understand; WordPress; CSS; XHTML; PHP; Other helpful technologies; Tools of the trade; HTML editor; Graphic editor; Firefox; Developing for Firefox first; Summary; Chapter 2: Theme Design and Approach; Things to consider; Types of blogs
- Plugins and widgetsGetting ready to design; A common problem; The solution: Rapid design comping; The radical, new process-is not so new or radical?; Overview of rapid design comping; Getting started; Sketching It; Considering usability; Starting with the structure; Creating your design; The DOCTYPE; The main body; Attaching the basic stylesheet; Basic semantic XHTML structure; Adding text-typography; Starting with the text; Choosing your fonts; Cascading fonts; Font stacks; sIFR; Font sizing; Why pixels?; Keeping it in proportion; Paragraphs; Default links; The layout
- Column Layout: Floating div tags versus CSS tablesPosts; Making sure WordPress sticky posts get styled; Forms; Threaded and paginated comments; Navigation; Styling the main navigation; WordPress-specific styles for navigation; Color schemes; Two-minute color schemes; Color schemes with GIMP or Photoshop; Adding color to your CSS; Styling the special TOC headers; Creating the graphical elements; Relax and have fun designing; Slicing and exporting images; Don't forget your favicon!; Making your favicon high-res; Summary; Chapter 3: Coding It Up; Got WordPress?; Understanding the WordPress theme
- Creating your WordPress workflowBuilding our WordPress theme; Starting with a blank slate: Tabula rasa; Create a new theme directory; Including WordPress content; Understanding template tags; Getting a handle on hooks; Learning the Loop; Creating a basic loop; Modifying the timestamp and author template tags; Modifying the basic comments display; Including threaded comments; Styling threaded comments; Breaking it up: Header, footer, and sidebar template files; Creating the footer.php template file; Creating the sidebar.php template file; The header
- More template files: Home, internal, and static pagesThe home page; Internal pages; Static pages; Quick review; Fun with other page layouts; Don't forget about your 404 page; Even more template files; Adding in the favicon; Activating the favicon; Summary; Chapter 4: Debugging and Validation; Testing other browsers and platforms; Introduction to debugging; Troubleshooting basics; Why validate?; PHP template tags; CSS quick fixes; Advanced troubleshooting; Quirks mode; Fixing CSS across browsers; Box model issues; Everything is relative; To hack or not to hack; Out of the box model thinking