freelance web designer &
wordpress themes developer
rss

Blog

The way to convert your nice web design to WordPress

15 June 2012

If you’re not a novice user, you have probably heard about WordPress cms. It’s both, a user-friendly publishing platform and a great content management system widely used all over the world.

WordPress cms is gaining more and more popularity every day. People from different corners of the world start using WordPress engine to build their websites, blogs and promotional sites. The main reason for such popularity is the ease and high utility of the content management system. But there’s still one question to be answered: how do i transform my favourite design to WordPress?

The theme system is actually the way WordPress works. A theme is a sort of a folder with the files which make up your WordPress website. The header, footer and sidebar are the elements which these files mainly consist of. However, it’s not that easy job to transform a web design to the WordPress.

WordPress automatically takes all your files and combine them to create your website or a blog. That is why it’s important to have an idea how the whole structure works. A WordPress theme uses a standard stylesheet to control video files and other features on the site. For this reason, it’s absolutely important to have CSS skills to create good designs for WordPress.

If you’re thinking to create a website from scratch, then you should be looking into the bare bone themes. They have got all the standard files which you can use. You can build on top of them and modify the existing features to aptly meet your business needs.

If you plan to change the current theme, use the navigation on the right side of the theme editor and find the file you’re looking for. The files have got the relevant names. For example, if you need to make changes to the header, you should look for the file with named “header.php”. As you can clearly see, it’s not that difficult to learn WordPress. Well, it does take some time but not that long. WordPress cms is tailored to satisfy a wide range of users, novice users as well as advanced administrators.

Related posts: