Comments on: Donald DeSantis: Create Your Own WordPress Theme

By: karen

karen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:59:27 +0000

I love your idea for the css turorial geared towards wordpress!

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:51:50 +0000

designtech 44 what install can you not find or get?

By: designtech44

designtech44 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:58:16 +0000

so donald,
I just can’t seem to get the install of wordpress, … could you walk me through?
dean

By: Ryan Teribery

Ryan Teribery — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:08:59 +0000

This is great! I guess its now time to brush up on my adobe skills… There are so many great themes (basic to advance) for WP. But I still have not found one that meets my EXACT needs.

Now it’s time to try it on my own.

5 minutes well worth my/your time.

–Ryan

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:57:50 +0000

Second that comment on w3schools. Really good site to learn a lot.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:31:35 +0000

You are right Donald. A little knowledge of CSS goes a long way in designing and improving your website.

By: designtech44

designtech44 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:04:39 +0000

yes Donald,
I’ve been on this path for a few and I’m glad to discover you. w3schools is amazing I’ll say, just as some others that I’m on, but I like “don’t get sucked int a tutorial vortex” the most.

I would be interested in you free teachstreet Html/css class.

Have you seen websitemagazine.com , It’s a free , very useful seo mag.

cool.
dean

By: Donald

Donald — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:36:13 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad you found this useful.

Beyond the additonal resources mentioned in the talk, I would suggest brushing up on some basic CSS. If you use the starter theme I built, you’ll be able to get a lot of mileage out of very basic CSS. Practice using CSS selectors (google the term if unfamiliar); CSS font attributes; and CSS background attributes. W3schools has good content here. Smashing magazine probably also has some good links – but don’t get sucked into a tutorial vortex.

I’ve been thinking of putting together a free HTML/css class through TeachStreet. I could add in a WordPress twist… Would there be any interest in something like this?

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:06:42 +0000

Hey Donald,
You did an excellent job pulling this together. Do you have additional resources online?

By: dean dyer

dean dyer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:44:28 +0000

hey Donald,

thank you thank you, Wow, this is just what I’ve been looking for to make my site into a word press formate.
very good.

I’ll see all of your stuff.

dean

By: mrynelson

mrynelson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:13:26 +0000

I will watch this again tomorrow maybe it will sink in then.

By: Ed Kingston

Ed Kingston — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:52:12 +0000

Very well done and informative. Thanks for the video.