WordPress as a CMS: How To Think About Building a Website With WordPress
Plan your WordPress site design Figure out what sort of pages we’ll need Before a visual design can begin, you need to do content design. Determine what exactly you’re going to say. Words, sentences...
View ArticleBlog Design That Works
In this post we take a look at four excellent, and popular, designs, from simple to complex, that can help inform your next blog design. The sites we’re going to look at are Lifehacker, PSD Tuts,...
View ArticlePersonality and WordPress Themes
What will happen to the WordPress Themes community as the main portal for theme downloads moves from a host of developer sites and their interlinked communities to the individual WordPress...
View ArticleThe Future of WordPress Themes 2009
Last year’s Future of WordPress Themes (read it here) found 11 people committed to thinking creatively about WordPress themes stopping to look where WordPress theming was heading—and now we’re doing it...
View ArticleHow To Design A Popular WordPress Theme: Chris Pearson’s Secret
Want to design a popular WordPress Theme? Then you better take a look at what Chris Pearson is doing. He knows the secret of designing a popular theme. Chris is arguably the most popular and successful...
View ArticleSo You Want To Create WordPress Themes, Huh?
Update: It’s live! It’s happening! Go read How To Create a WordPress Theme and learn how to code up something awesome. Does that title sound familiar? Over 2 years ago the now defunct WPDesigner.com...
View ArticleCan I Make a ‘Premium’ Theme My Own? And Then Release It?
Can you make a ‘Premium’ Theme your own? And then release it? For free? Or for a fee? The answer is simple. Yes. That is, if the ‘Premium’ WordPress Theme in question—premium meaning you have to pay...
View ArticleQuestions on Responsive WordPress Theme Design
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to Responsive Web Design lately and how it affects — and ought to affect — WordPress Theme Design. Mark Boulton’s latest article A Richer Canvas has me thinking about...
View ArticleA Quest For The Ultimate WordPress Theme
If you’re a WordPress theme designer or developer looking to understand the desires of your users you can’t go wrong with one WordPress.com bloggers quest for the ultimate WordPress theme. It’s one of...
View ArticleWordPress Themes in 2012
The other day I was asked over dinner what I thought WordPress themes were going to look like in 2012. The big themes and ideas — the future! — that sort of thing. It’s something I love talking about...
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