What if I know exactly what I want…

  • …but because I’m new to website design, I’m having a tough time finding a theme with the exact options/color schemes that I want?

    I’m willing to learn HTML and CSS, but where should I start? How did the expert amongst you learn? College? Or by just playing around with it for long enough?

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  • Most of what I learned was playing and getting a ton of help from this forum ?? The people here rock!

    youll want to also learn CSS primarily.
    you can learn CSS from the greatest code source on the internet
    W3Schools.
    https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

    never forget that website.. you can learn how to change colors using css, which is what wordpress uses, and learn to change many other thing using css… all which wordpress uses for styling. you can modify the style of any theme using css, usually in “style.css” under Appearance > Editor

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter brent7

    (@brent7)

    Awesome. I’ll probably be on that site all the time.

    Thanks for the advice!

    Youre welcome, if youre like me youll get really frustrated, but dont give up. That site is pretty damn useful it also will teach you a lot more than just CSS, just look around on it.

    also the wordpress Codex, a little more comlicated but also usful
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Site_Design_and_Layout
    uhhg. maybe i should take my own advice and read through that page some more :p

    I was a web designer/developer using html / css and some php or coldfusion simply for includes and that type of thing. I was by no means a programmer or knew anything about databases.

    I started with WordPress by diving into CSS – specifically understanding what IDs and Classes are. From there I figured out the divs that build the Twenty Ten theme. I kept looking at the source code from modified Twenty-Ten themes in Dreamweaver and by using FireBug in Firefox. Backward engineering I guess… but thats how I got started with understanding the theme development part of WordPress.

    And just by using WordPress. It is hard to be a developer on the back end if you don’t use WordPress from the ‘front end’ and from the site owner’s perspective.

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