Blogs can be an inspiration to try many new things: not least, modern coding and table-free design. This site is intended to help you deal with these and other challenges facing today's commercial webmasters.
Tables were intended as a way to present data which is more comprehensible in tabular form. They became a design tool at a time when there were no better options. But now there is no excuse to be delivering flabby, overweight pages which are expensive to maintain and that cost points with the search engines.
The second article working towards a babelog-style WordPress theme. This one gets the theme’s columns organized and sets the font styles, sizes and colors. It deals with the way in which browsers impose a lot of formatting we may not want (and that they don’t handle consistently) and shows how to bring them all to heel.
The first in a series of articles working through creating a babelog-style WordPress theme from scratch. It starts with a basic set of templates and a near empty stylesheet and this first article covers choosing a setting the background color and header image.
The best way to understand WordPress themes is to create one. And that’s exactly what we shall be doing over the next few articles: building from scratch a babelog-style theme. We shall be going in easy steps which require only a minimal knowledge of HTML and CSS, so anyone should be able to follow. So you can follow along, I have provided a zip with all the files you will need for this project.
