Packt has release a new book of WordPress Themes Design written by Tessa Blakeley Silver. This book has a complete guide to create professional WordPress themes. Tessa Blakeley Silver provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up the WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up the theme’s template structure, through coding markup, testing, and debugging, to taking it live.
What you will learn from this book
* Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
* Create detailed designs and code them up
* Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
* Debug and validate your theme using W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation tools
* Customize and tweak your theme’s layout
* Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
* Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme
* Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox
* Add interactivity to your themes using Flash
* Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0’s template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions
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