WordPress Theme Design

WordPress Theme Design Tessa Blakeley Silver   A complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes   Create and code detailed designs Understand color schemes and usage of graphics Debug and validate your theme Work with different layouts Dynamic drop-down menus, interactive Forms, and AJAX Integrate and work with Flash Reference guide to Markup, Styles, and Template Tags In More Detail   Expected May 2008. Pre-order now! Cover price   $39.99 Pre-Order Discount   $31.99 save 20% Change Currency   UK £ US $ EU € what is this? Free shipping! US, UK, Europe, Aus, NZ & selected Asian countries Pre-order offer terms Where else can I buy this book? Also available from: select a store Lehmans (DE)Dataclub OY (FI)Temporeal (BR)Combooks (Israel)Amazon (US)Quantum Books (US MA)Amazon.de (DE)Amazon.co.uk (UK)Bookware.com (AU)Polyteknisk (DK)Amazon.fr (FR)

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Language English
Paperback 220 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date Expected May 2008
ISBN 1847193099
ISBN 13 978-1-847193-09-4
Author(s) Tessa Blakeley Silver
Topics and Technologies Content Management, PHP/MySQL, Open Source

This book walks through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom theme for the WordPress open-source blog engine. The author provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up your WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up your theme's template structure, through coding markup, testing, and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters cover additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using 3rd-party plugins as well as creating API hooks to add your own custom plugins.

Whether you're working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to effectively understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system enabling you to have full control over your site's design and branding.

This book can be used by WordPress users or visual designers who want to develop a WordPress theme. You only need to be comfortable with the basics of web development and this book will take care of the rest.

Tessa Blakeley Silver
Tessa Blakeley Silver's background is in print design and traditional illustration. She evolved over the years into web and multi-media development, where she focuses on usability and interface design. Prior to starting her consulting and development company hyper3media (pronounced hyper-cube media) http://hyper3media.com, Tessa was the VP of Interactive Technologies at eHigherEducation, an online learning and technology company developing compelling multimedia simulations, interactions, and games that met online educational requirements like 508, AICC, and SCORM. She has also worked as a consultant and freelancer for J. Walter Thompson and The Diamond Trading Company (formerly known as DeBeers) and was a Design Specialist and Senior Associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers' East Region Marketing department. Tessa authors several design and web technology blogs. Joomla! Template Design is her first book.