Designing Custom Sites Using Child Themes in WordPress and CSS
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this WordPress tutorial, we'll create a child theme for the WordPress website platform. Software required: WordPress, Firefox, CSS3, FTP, HTML5, Photoshop CS5.
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Course Description
In this WordPress tutorial, we'll create a child theme for the WordPress website platform. We'll take an existing theme as a starting point and use Firefox Web Developer tools and its live preview to dissect and stylize our own version to create a custom site design. From this WordPress training you'll learn to interpret CSS code so that you can develop your own child themes. Software required: WordPress, Firefox, CSS3, FTP, HTML5, Photoshop CS5.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 18s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 18sDesigning Custom Sites Using Child Themes in WordPress and CSS- 1h 58m
—Creating a WordPress Child Theme 8m 8s
—Working with Firefox Web Developer 9m 6s
—Working with the Twenty Twelve Theme for WordPress 8m 34s
—Creating a Mockup of Our Page Layout 9m 36s
—Customizing Content Areas, Colors and Background Images 6m 59s
—Understanding the Site Dimensions and Overall Layout 9m 12s
—Using Custom Web Fonts 9m 48s
—Customizing the Top Navigation Bar 9m 5s
—Customizing the Top Menu Toggle for Mobile 9m 44s
—Adjusting the Major Content Areas 8m 42s
—Styling the Widget Area 9m 2s
—Posting the Child Theme 8m 53s
—Revising the Live Site 11m 49s