Designing for Wordpress Screencast
Just came across this yesterday via MA.TT. What it is a three part series over at CSS-Tricks.com about designing for Wordpress. Would have come in handy when I was looking for a new theme last week.
Now I have been reading various site on how to design a theme for Wordpress on and off ever since I started this blog, and I don’t know what it is but this screencast has been the first thing that has really made everything really click together. I can read pages of stuff and try it out but if someone show me how it done it seem to make much more since.
The most helpful part of the first episode was the Starker theme. Starker is a blank Wordpress theme that is as bare boned theme, completely lacking in style and layout. This is going to make it a lot easier to create my own theme. As I don’t have to fight someone else’s layout. The other nice thing about it is that it properly indented making the div’s and other element line up nice. The problem I’ve had with most themes is that the author don’t make there code look pretty, thereby making it hard for others to read the code and figure out how it works.
The other nice thing I learned about is a program called Coda. Coda as far as I’ve seen is the killer app for web development. It is made by the same company that makes Transmit, and while it duplicates some of Transmit’s functions it also adds so much more. Coda is part ftp client, part Text editor, and part a few other things to. Basically it takes everything you normally need for hand coding a website and puts it all in to one windows. I’m using the trial version right now and I’m really liking it, now I just got to come up with the $70 needed to buy it.
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