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WordPress

Posted by brennan smith
brennan smith
1,703 Points

Customizing wordpress

I would like to see some courses on Wordpress design and development that involve a start to finish project (psd to html to Wordpress) including learning about filters and hooks within the Wordpress API.

BTW, the forum is a great idea and look forward to utilizing it with questions I have about future courses.

10 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

TL;DR Use either HotGloo or Cacoo

Most tutorials mention Photoshop for historical reasons, it's not even the Adobe product geared towards laying stuff out on the web that's Fireworks. Photoshop costs $700, which seems to have a poor return on inventment (ROI) given the other choices available.

Instead you can use the wireframing tools

The big 4 profressional tools are, a suitable professional price tag

  • Axure ($500)
  • Fireworks ($300)
  • Balsamiq ($80)
  • Omnigraffe ($80)

Then there are a few upstart paid online services:

  • HotGloo
  • UXPin
  • Mockingbird.

Finally there are a host of free choices such as Cacoo & Moqups.

Blair Rorani
Blair Rorani
6,658 Points
Blair Rorani
Blair Rorani
6,658 Points

+1. Buy how to be a wordpress rockstar from rockablepress.com in the mean time.

brennan smith
brennan smith
1,703 Points
brennan smith
brennan smith
1,703 Points

Will do. Thanks Blair.

Kelley Kent
Kelley Kent
33,450 Points
Kelley Kent
Kelley Kent
33,450 Points

James, thanks for posting the tutorial on Tuts Plus. I had an additional question. It seems like Photoshop is the go-to program for both the tutorial you mentioned and Treehouse. I am exploring with Wordpress now and don't have Photoshop and was wondering if this is something you recommend me getting. I have a program called Pixelmator which seems just as good as Photoshop but everyone seems to be using Photoshop.

brennan smith
brennan smith
1,703 Points
brennan smith
brennan smith
1,703 Points

@James - Thanks for the tuts link, looks very in depth and just what I am looking for.

Blair Rorani
Blair Rorani
6,658 Points
Blair Rorani
Blair Rorani
6,658 Points

Great round up @james barnett.

Most graphic design can be done with CSS anyway so if u r game u can get a design working in html and css and then add the code to make your html work with Wordpress.

Deleted User
Deleted User

+1 on the psd to html to wp.

I'm using GIMP 2.8 as the image editor, but even a tutorial with Photoshop would be useful.

Kelley Kent
Kelley Kent
33,450 Points
Kelley Kent
Kelley Kent
33,450 Points

Thanks for the info James!

chrisfeld
chrisfeld
3,332 Points
chrisfeld
chrisfeld
3,332 Points

Great info James. I too am impatiently waiting for some more advanced WP tutorials about how to build responsive frameworks, panels and themes from scratch...