Workflow for creating themes?

1. 

   Wicked Sushi (Member)
   Posted 8 months ago | Permalink

   Let's say I have created a blog design in Photoshop and it's ready to be converted to the framework. What would be a good workflow for it? Code the design into XHTML then convert it to the framework?

   On that note, is there an easy way to code a theme offline? Edit a CSS file, see the changes it makes through a random HTML file, then once the design looks good enough, just upload it onto Wordpress?

   In all honesty, I'm very confused about the framework, even though I spent all morning figuring it out and experimenting with it. I'm also new to Wordpress though.

2. 

   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
   Posted 8 months ago | Permalink

   You must be a logged-in exclusive member to view this reply.

3. 

   John Myrstad (Member)
   Posted 8 months ago | Permalink

   My way:

   1. Analyze and decide on my design requirements.
   2. Lay out paper sketch with my design elements ( header, footer, nav, widget areas etc )
   3. Bring together Hybrid block level elements/divs and my sketch. http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid/visual-overview#default-view
   4. Photoshopping and slicing.
   5. Css styling/child theming on localhost running WAMP and using Firebug in FireFox.

4. 

   Wicked Sushi (Member)
   Posted 8 months ago | Permalink

   @ Justin: I went and set up Wordpress locally and it helped a lot. Thanks. Constantly updating the files through my web host was just plain annoying.

   @ John: I think I will try that workflow for my first blog theme - It's a bit different from what I usually would do.

Reply

You must log in to post.