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Welcome to the final chapter in this series. Today we are going to review the process for taking your newly created HTML/CSS files and turning them into a theme for your WordPress site. We will review what the theme system for WordPress consists of as well as some resources that are helpful in getting your project completed. By the end you should have a better understanding of how the WordPress theme system works and what it takes to get your custom layout functioning.
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Welcome to Part II of the Sketch to WordPress series. In the last part we talked about design ideas as well as discussing ways to go about getting that design idea from paper to Photoshop. Here in this article we will be discussing how you take your final Photoshop Mockup and convert it to a basic HTML/CSS page. In the end you should be able to take your design to the HTML/CSS stage without too much hassle.
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Welcome to part one of our first series of tutorials here on the Cove. In this series I will be talking about taking a website design idea from those first sketches on some paper all the way up to a theme for WordPress. For this first part we will be covering some common design ideas and techniques, as well as some tools that I use to get the ball rolling on a project like this. I’ll be writing it from a ‘new to web design’ point of view, as that should work better for the few readers I have currently.
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