WordPress Web Design For Dummies In full color!

Updated, full-color guide to creating dynamic websites with WordPress 3.6

In this updated new edition, bestselling For Dummies author and WordPress expert Lisa Sabin-Wilson makes it easy for anyone with a basic knowledge of the WordPress software to create a custom site using complementary technologies such as CSS, HTML, PHP, and MySQL. You'll not only get up to speed on essential tools and technologies and further advance your own design skills, this book also gives you pages of great case studies, so you can see just how other companies and individuals are creating compelling, customized, and cost-effective websites with WordPress.
* Shows you how to incorporate WordPress templates, graphic design principles, HTML, CSS, and PHP to build one-of-a-kind websites
* Explains how to create an effective navigation system, choose the right color palette and fonts, and select different layouts
* Reveals how you can tweak existing website designs with available themes, both free and premium
* Provides numerous case studies to illustrate techniques and processes, and the effects you can achieve
* Discusses how you can translate your design skills into paid work

Want to create cost-effective and fantastic websites with WordPress? This do-it-yourself book will get you there.

WordPress Web Design For Dummies, 2nd Editionwill assume that the reader already has the basic and fundamental knowledge of the WordPress software. It covers how users can use WordPress as a tool to create a customized and individualized design for their web site using complimentary technologies such as CSS, HTML, graphic design, PHP, and MySQL. Readers willseehow organizations, individuals and companies are using WordPress to power their very customized Web site through case studies. Will be updated through version 3.6 of WordPress. This book will help readers: Define what technologies they will use to create a custom designed web site, including the difference between WordPress and non-WordPress technologies. Identify the tools the reader will use to accomplish a custom designed web site efficiently and competently. Build an effective navigation menu systems to provide web site readers with easy and logical navigation. Choose the right color palette. Select different layouts for the web site design, including a look into 2 and 3 column fixed and fluid web site design. Explore the different aspects of web design including CSS, Fonts, Colors and frameworks. Tweak existing designs, including the default WordPress theme and other available themes, both free and premium. Create a fully featured custom WordPress theme from scratch using WordPress templates, graphic design, HTML, CSS and PHP. Translate their design skills into paid work.

Updated, full-color guide to creating dynamic websites with WordPress 3.6 In this updated new edition, bestselling For Dummies author and WordPress expert Lisa Sabin-Wilson makes it easy for anyone with a basic knowledge of the WordPress software to create a custom site using complementary technologies such as CSS, HTML, PHP, and MySQL. You'll not only get up to speed on essential tools and technologies and further advance your own design skills, this book also gives you pages of great case studies, so you can see just how other companies and individuals are creating compelling, customized, and cost-effective websites with WordPress. Shows you how to incorporate WordPress templates, graphic design principles, HTML, CSS, and PHP to build one-of-a-kind websites Explains how to create an effective navigation system, choose the right color palette and fonts, and select different layouts Reveals how you can tweak existing website designs with available themes, both free and premium Provides numerous case studies to illustrate techniques and processes, and the effects you can achieve Discusses how you can translate your design skills into paid work Want to create cost-effective and fantastic websites with WordPress? This do-it-yourself book will get you there.

Learn to:
- Create dynamic, custom websites with the srlf-hosted version of wordpress
- Use free themes and enhance them with CSS and HTML
- Plan your design and choose graphics, colors, and fonts