{"id":1500,"date":"2008-10-18T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T10:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wordpress-theme-design-an-exceptional-guide-on-how-to-create-and-customize-professional-wordpress-themes\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T10:36:26","slug":"wordpress-theme-design-an-exceptional-guide-on-how-to-create-and-customize-professional-wordpress-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wordpress-theme-design-an-exceptional-guide-on-how-to-create-and-customize-professional-wordpress-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Theme Design &#8211; An exceptional guide on how to create and customize professional WordPress themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been given the opportunity by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Packt Publishing<\/a><\/strong> to read a great book on creating and \/ or customizing <strong>professional WordPress themes<\/strong>. The book is called <strong>WordPress Theme Design &#8211; <em>A complete guide to creating professional WordPress Themes<\/em><\/strong> written by Tessa Blakeley Silver.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cld_title\">About the author<\/div>\n<p>Tessa Blakeley Silver started out as a print designer and illustrator and evolved over the years into a web and multimedia developer, focusing on usability and interface design. Prior to establishing her own consulting and development company hyper3media (hyper-cube media) , she also worked as a VP of Interactive Technologies at eHigherEducation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cld_title\">The Book<\/div>\n<p>The focus of &#8220;WordPress Theme Design&#8221; is to provide a comprehensive guide on how to create a professional WordPress theme from the design process to search engine optimization (SEO) and after reading the book I can say it does more than that. It&#8217;s basically a compressed version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Main_Page\" title=\"Wordpress Codex\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Codex<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wordpress-theme-design.JPG\" alt=\"Wordpress Theme Design - A complete guide to creating professional WordPress Themes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The book has 207 pages and it&#8217;s organized in 9 chapters : <strong>Getting Started as a WordPress Theme Designer<\/strong>, <strong>Theme Design and Approach<\/strong>, <strong>Coding it Up<\/strong>, <strong>Debugging and Validation<\/strong>, <strong>Your Theme in Action<\/strong>, <strong>WordPress Reference<\/strong>, <strong>Dynamic Menus and Interactive Elements<\/strong>, <strong>AJAX \/ Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms<\/strong>, <strong>Design Tips for Working with WordPress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 1 : <\/strong><strong>Getting Started as a WordPress Theme Designer<\/strong> introduces the WordPress platform and what tools and skills you need in order to start developing themes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 2 : <\/strong><strong>Theme Design and Approach <\/strong>focuses on the design part of the development process and gives advice regarding color schemes and graphic styles. 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