WordPress tutorials and more...

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.

De-mystifying WordPress

Even as commercial software, WordPress would be amazing. It is easy to install and easy to use. But you are almost certainly going to want your site to have its own look and when you take a look at a theme for the first time - especially if you are not overly familiar with PHP and CSS - what you see may make no sense at all. This article will try to demystify WordPress theme files and show you that they are not nearly as complex as they may first appear.

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Create a Theme #4 (final)

This is the final article in the “Create a Theme” series. In it we check out the sub-pages of the blog and tidy up any loose odds and ends. Once these final tweaks are done, your new blog will be ready to launch!

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Create a Theme #3

The third article in this series gets to grips with all the remaining styles on the main page (which in fact will cover most of the site). By the end of this article we have something which is actually beginning to look like a blog.

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Create a Theme #2

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.

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