Building Custom WordPress Sites from Scratch

Building Custom WordPress Sites from Scratch, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.1, with 114 lectures, based on 193 reviews, and has 6044 subscribers.

You will learn about How to install host, and configure a complete WordPress solution for a professional site. How to design a custom WordPress theme using industry standard graphic design tools and creative techniques. How to work with HTML, PHP, and CSS elements of WordPress to have precise control over page layout and site components. How to extend the functionality of any WordPress site with plugins and free tools. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone looking for an easy and affordable way to create their own custom website for a business or personal use. or Any current WordPress user wanting create a custom theme or learn how to manipulate components and settings for a comprehensive design. or Anyone who wants a comprehensive guide to web design that incorporates image manipulation and graphic design. It is particularly useful for Anyone looking for an easy and affordable way to create their own custom website for a business or personal use. or Any current WordPress user wanting create a custom theme or learn how to manipulate components and settings for a comprehensive design. or Anyone who wants a comprehensive guide to web design that incorporates image manipulation and graphic design.

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Summary

Title: Building Custom WordPress Sites from Scratch

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.1

Number of Lectures: 114

Number of Published Lectures: 114

Number of Curriculum Items: 114

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 114

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to install host, and configure a complete WordPress solution for a professional site.

How to design a custom WordPress theme using industry standard graphic design tools and creative techniques.

How to work with HTML, PHP, and CSS elements of WordPress to have precise control over page layout and site components.

How to extend the functionality of any WordPress site with plugins and free tools.

Who Should Attend

Anyone looking for an easy and affordable way to create their own custom website for a business or personal use.

Any current WordPress user wanting create a custom theme or learn how to manipulate components and settings for a comprehensive design.

Anyone who wants a comprehensive guide to web design that incorporates image manipulation and graphic design.

Target Audiences

Anyone looking for an easy and affordable way to create their own custom website for a business or personal use.

Any current WordPress user wanting create a custom theme or learn how to manipulate components and settings for a comprehensive design.

Anyone who wants a comprehensive guide to web design that incorporates image manipulation and graphic design.

A Verifiable Certificate of Completion is presented to all students who undertake this course.

WordPress offers more flexibility for creating personal and professional sites than any other content management system on the market. Now, in this multi-part WordPress training course from InfiniteSkills, youll learn everything you need to know to create a completely custom site from the ground up, from design, to installation and everyday management.

This highly informative course goes starts with the planning stages, helping you make key decisions and establish a professional wireframe in Adobe Illustrator, before moving through Photoshop for graphic design and onto WordPress itself for installation, configuration and customization with plugins and content. In 114 lessons, you will learn how to design, build and manage a professional web presence, using the latest technologies at your disposal. No other WordPress tutorial series offers such an extensive guide to website creation!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Site Planning And Wireframing

Lecture 1: Working Files – Download These First

Lecture 2: What You Will Learn

Lecture 3: The Workflow Process

Lecture 4: Setting Up Illustrator For Web Layout

Lecture 5: Getting Started With Wire Framing

Lecture 6: Making The Layout Precise With Transform And Align

Lecture 7: Setting Up Layout Guides

Lecture 8: Wireframing Additional Layout Objects

Lecture 9: Finishing Up The Wireframe – Part 1

Lecture 10: Finishing Up The Wireframe – Part 2

Chapter 2: From Wireframe To Design

Lecture 1: Choosing Fonts

Lecture 2: Choosing Colors

Lecture 3: Creating The Site Logo

Lecture 4: Scaling And Positioning The Logo

Lecture 5: Creating A Brush Effect

Lecture 6: Building Out The Design Further

Lecture 7: Pushing The Design Further

Lecture 8: Using Yahoo! Design Elements

Chapter 3: Moving The Design To Photoshop

Lecture 1: Getting The Design Into Photoshop

Lecture 2: Adjusting The Canvas Size

Lecture 3: Introducing Smart Objects

Lecture 4: Breaking Apart The Layout – Part 1

Lecture 5: Breaking Apart The Layout – Part 2

Lecture 6: Breaking Apart The Rest Of The Layout

Lecture 7: Organizing The Layers Panel

Lecture 8: Building Out The Header

Lecture 9: Inserting The Header Texture And A Clipping Group

Lecture 10: Inserting Photographs – Part 1

Lecture 11: Inserting Photographs – Part 2

Lecture 12: Building The Center Section

Lecture 13: Finalizing The Layout

Chapter 4: Installing WordPress Locally On The PC And Mac

Lecture 1: Downloading WordPress

Lecture 2: Downloading XAMPP For PC

Lecture 3: Starting Up XAMPP And Creating The MySQL Database

Lecture 4: Installing WordPress On The PC

Lecture 5: Downloading MAMP For Mac

Lecture 6: Pointing MAMP To WordPress

Lecture 7: Creating The Database And Installing WordPress On The Mac

Chapter 5: Getting WordPress Set Up

Lecture 1: Viewing And Touring The Admin Console

Lecture 2: Viewing The WordPress Front And Backend

Lecture 3: WordPress Main Areas

Lecture 4: Permalink Option Settings

Lecture 5: Changing The Sites Theme

Chapter 6: Building A Custom WordPress Theme

Lecture 1: Viewing The Template Files And A Note About Text Editors

Lecture 2: Defining The Main Layout Components – Part 1

Lecture 3: Defining The Main Layout Components – Part 2

Lecture 4: Adjusting The Layout Width

Lecture 5: Starting The Sites Header

Lecture 6: Slicing The Layouts Header Graphic

Lecture 7: Saving The Header Background

Lecture 8: Correcting The File Structure

Lecture 9: Inserting The Header Graphic Into The CSS

Lecture 10: Extracting The Logo From The Photoshop Layout

Lecture 11: Inserting The Logo And Making Code Adjustments

Lecture 12: Resizing The Logo

Lecture 13: Roughing In The Slidshow – Part 1

Lecture 14: Roughing In The Slidshow – Part 2

Chapter 7: Building The Sites News Feed

Lecture 1: Understanding How Posts And The Loop Works

Lecture 2: Writing And Publishing Posts

Lecture 3: Setting A Featured Image Post Thumbnail – Part 1

Lecture 4: Setting A Featured Image Post Thumbnail – Part 2

Lecture 5: Inserting The More Tag

Lecture 6: Creating Additional Test Posts

Lecture 7: Setting The Blog Loop Background Graphic

Lecture 8: Controlling Background Tiling

Lecture 9: Adding The Blog Loop Title

Lecture 10: Customizing How Posts Display – Part 1

Lecture 11: Customizing How Posts Display – Part 2

Lecture 12: Finalizing The Blog Loop

Chapter 8: Building The Site Pages And Main Menu

Lecture 1: Understanding Pages Versus Posts

Lecture 2: Publishing Pages And Updating The Menu

Lecture 3: Creating Additional Test Pages

Lecture 4: Controlling The Order Of Menu Items

Lecture 5: Finishing Up The Menu

Chapter 9: Building The Layouts Center Section

Lecture 1: Saving The Graphic For The Center Section

Lecture 2: Coding The Center Section

Lecture 3: Applying The Background Texture

Lecture 4: Extracting The Center Section Graphics

Lecture 5: Coding The Center Graphics

Lecture 6: Final Center Box Adjustments

Lecture 7: Setting Center Box Hyperlinks

Chapter 10: Building An Automated Slideshow

Lecture 1: Downloading And Installing The Gallery Plugin

Lecture 2: Inserting The Gallery Code

Lecture 3: Creating The Slideshow Graphics

Lecture 4: Building The Slide Posts

Lecture 5: Configuring The Slideshow

Lecture 6: Removing The Gallery Posts From The Loop

Chapter 11: Building The Sidebar And Footer

Lecture 1: Saving Out The Sidebar Background

Lecture 2: Adjusting The Sidebar CSS

Instructors

Infinite Skills
High Quality Training

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 10 votes

2 stars: 15 votes

3 stars: 24 votes

4 stars: 61 votes

5 stars: 83 votes

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