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Workflow for creating themes?

  1. Wicked Sushi (Member)
    Posted 1 year 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 1 year ago | Permalink

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  3. John Myrstad (Member)
    Posted 1 year 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 1 year 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.

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