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I am starting up a wordpress design site for fansites, but I am clueless on how to code, and I need sidebars and footers that are made on photoshop. Can someone please help?

You’ll have to learn programming first – that will take about 6 months for the basics. http://www-old.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/AD.pdf Then you’ll have to learn PHP, but once you know programming, that’s simple.

I want to design template for my wordpress which software should i use?

You can find many readymade templates and you can customize it and you can develop your own in photoshop

I am trying to design my own WP theme and want to do it from scratch based on nothing. Can anyone show me which php snipets are an absolute must in order not to break WP engine.

I understand that people added lots of their own which confuses people like me.

I have found many wordpress design yourself websites which are very outdated like 5-6 year old and most of them beat around the bush.

Did you see this guy’s tutorial?

http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/

Nothing better than the source itself:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

I would like design similar www.bookmarkdofollow.com but I don’t know this site design by Pligg or Wordpress. Thank you for help.

It’s pligg.

They’re using the Silverbullet theme.

http://bookmarkdofollow.com/templates/silverbullet/

I have used Dreamweaver in the past, probably four or five years ago and it was pretty difficult. I am a video editor so I use computers and difficult design software everyday, yet Dreamweaver, I just could not wrap my head around. Wordpress on the other hand seems extremely limited in terms of video and audio capabilities, which I will definitely need a lot of. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi there,

This is a question I hear a lot from people. It really depends on what you are comfortable with and what you know.

Personally, I build all my sites on Wordpress as it hsa some incredible functionality. Once you understand how to create and manipulate themes it can be made to look like any type of site.

I have 80% of my sites on Wordpress and am moving the remaining 20% over to it because of it’s functionality and extendability. It is so much easier to use than dreamweaver (I have used both extensively).

It handles graphics and videos well and you can easily embed audio too.

Wordpress provides a 100% customisable framework for you to create your site in. It doesn’t require any HTML knowledge and you can pretty much point and click to change anything. You can make site wide changes in a blink of an eye and can make it do pretty much anything by using plugins. If you can’t find a plugin that does what you want, you can write your own!

Hope that helps you

Jason

I am quoting graphic design and customization of my WordPress site. I just got the hosting up and running and I do not like the free skins.

Some designers say anybody can design a WordPress site, and other say it’s best to use someone who is very familiar with the CMS (content management system). One guy even said he was WordPress certified; not sure if that is even really a thing.

What do you think?

I think a WordPress-familiar developer would definitely be the best, but it is a fairly intuitive system to work with.

I’d say if you have no luck finding a reasonably-priced WordPress designer, you’re still pretty safe to go with someone who hasn’t worked with it before. If they’re actually experienced they’ll pick it up no problem.

There are also many free WordPress themes available online, so you don’t necessarily have to pay for that piece – just the labour.

I am having a website designed and am wanting it to be built with open source CMS. I will be maintaining the site myself and have limited experience. The site is marketing our business and will be a resource for those interested in our product. It will have a news and events function but not necessarily a blog. The site will be image rich.

I strongly recommend Wordpress.

Refer to:

http://www.threehosts.com/blog

Hope this helps.

I am launching a shopping cart site, uses paypal, and is selling downloads. I am using Wordpress and need a nice shopping cart THEME for the design and something to handle the shopping cart and automation for the ‘post purchase’ downloads.

depending on the number of products, if you don’t want to pay for a premium theme you could all a paypal button for each product and post each product as its own blog post.
I included a link to shopper press below in the resources, It’s a shoppingcart theme, for wordpress.

enjoy

I want to make a static HTML blog so I can re-design each entry… however, I would like to allow comments in a similar fashion to Wordpress (where a user simply enters a name, email, and comment) and maybe even link to their Gravatar account. I don’t need any other function from a CMS or blogging software… just need the ability for comments to be left behind. What’s the simplest, yet still flexible-in-design, way to do this?

Comment Box Makers:

PHP Comment Script: http://www.gentlesource.com/comment-script/
DoComments 2 comments software for websites: http://jerrata.com/?product=DoComments&focus=download
Add a free comments box to your website!: http://www.htmlcommentbox.com/
Form Using mailform.asp – Simple Comment Box: http://www.niu.edu/its/Scripts/mailform2.html
Comment Box Code: http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/comment_box_code.cfm
Comment (50 widgets): http://www.widgetbox.com/tag/comment
Video, blog, and message board widget: http://www.widgetdeathmatch.com/2009/02/video-blog-and-message-board-widget.html
Customizable Message Board: http://www.widgipedia.com/web-widgets/details/magnamerc/Customizable-Message-Board_757.html

Ron

I have designed my website in photoshop,but I do not know how to convert my psd file to wordpress
before i upload to the server.So any company can help me convert my psd file to wordpress?

Yes i do this for a living. www.ait-pro.com. I am PS designer, website designer, coder and Wordpress design and coding expert. Trying to explain exactly what steps you need to do to do this yourself would take a lot of time and still probably wouldn’t give you all the knowledge you need to do this, but i’ll take a stab at it.

Let me start out with the difference between an HTML website that you would design in Dreamweaver as opposed a Wordpress site design, which is PHP and therefore a dynamic platform using an SQL database. HTML website templates exist in real time and you can visually see everything and literally copy and paste graphics to the template in real time. PHP on the otherhand is primarily code and you will be creating source links and css source links that point to your graphic images. With PHP since it is dynamic the web pages are drawn (created) by pulling the web pages information that is stored in the SQL database, which is triggered by the PHP script in your PHP templates. I’m just giving you the basic principle here so that it may help you in seeing the what it will take to get static images into a dynamic website platform like Wordpress.

To make it simpler maybe this will help. Slicing in Photoshop (PS) is great for an HTML website design. You can literally import/export all your slices into Dreamweaver and you have an almost instant website. With PHP / Wordpress you will still need to "cut up" your design using either slices or just plain cropping. What you will be doing is cutting up your design images and then telling the PHP code and CSS code how and where to reassemble the images and web pages when the information is pulled from your SQL database. I hope i haven’t completely got you lost now. This should help you in conceptualizing the process of taking static images and using them in a dynamic website platform.

I would be more than happy to do this for you. I am very reasonably priced – actually too cheap