Pirate Cove

So after scraping a previous design (that a few of you and myself liked for awhile), I finalized on one and got it all worked out. There are a few bugs in the design as you navigate the parts of the site that I have done but those will start to go away. Some of the pages will populate as I add more content or take the time to write them.

For the first few tutorials I decided I’m going to take you all through the process of creating a Wordpress theme. Seems like a fairly basic tutorial and a good starting place since I’ve been doing it all week. It will go from drawing out the idea on paper, converting that into a PSD, taking that PSD to a basic HTML mock-up and then finally getting it to work with the WP theme system.

If there are any ideas you have for future tutorials feel free to leave a comment here or Twitter me.

Pirate Cove has been around since 1998.  Originally it was a spot where a handful of college buddies and online friends hung out and coordinated various activities.  With the dawn of social networking sites, that pretty much eliminated much of what the original purpose of this site was.

So I have decided to relaunch the website and change its direction to some extent.  Here at the Cove we will be discussing web design.  I will be putting together articles and demos of the various things that website creators find useful.  We will cover everything from the the server infrastructure and LAMP configs, up to fun programming techniques.

I am going to try and start with doing a tutorial a week, as well as some news updates as I find things.  Feel free to submit ideas for tutorials and even news that you find.

Spread the word, the Cove is coming back!