Learn to:
- Create dynamic, custom websites with the self-hosted version of WordPress
- Determine color scheme, site navigation, and typography based on your design strategy
- Plan your design for mobile device and tablet users
Your full-color guide to creating dynamic websites with WordPress
Do you want to take your WordPress skills to the next level? From bestselling author and WordPress expert Lisa Sabin-Wilson, this friendly guide quickly gets you up to speed on the latest release of the software. Its easy-to-understand direction will show you how to use WordPress to effortlessly create customized, compelling, and cost-effective websites.
- Get a solid foundation explore web design with WordPress, understand domain requirements, and manage content confidently
- Assemble your toolbox plan your design strategy, choose graphics and software resources, pick colors and fonts, and explore editors, browsers, and FTP
- Choose your theme find and install a WordPress theme, dissect themes and templates, and display content with widgets and template tags
- Build your website use basic CSS and HTML to customize your site design, design for WordPress as a CMS, and enhance your website with plugins
Open the book and find:
- How to use WordPress as a content management system
- Steps for installing WordPress on your web server
- Tips for working with the default theme as well as parent and child themes
- How to implement advanced CSS, SaSS, and responsive design
- Guidance on inserting images into your page or post
- Steps for building a community with BuddyPress
- Powerful plugins for WordPress