Nov07
Wordpress Theme Development
post a commentPosted by SmokestormX at 3:35pm
I’m still working on my first wordpress theme, and since I’ve been working on it so much I thought I’d write a bit in here like a developer diary.
First off, I thought that developing a wordpress theme word be a little difficult/fiddly, I wanted to make it strict XHTML and a table-less build using as much CSS as I could, to make things a bit more bulletproof. It turns out all those wordpress tags and functions are easy as pie, its the CSS browser rendering that ultimatly will kill you.
By that I mean making it look the same in Firefox , Internet Explorer 6 & Internet Exploroer 7. I remember reading on A List Apart, that CSS can often be like Whack-A-Mole, As soon as you fix one thing, another problem pops up in the other browser, and so far I’ve been hitting the shit out of my CSS, metaphoricaly speaking.
I know there are shortcuts around this, but I am unwilling to comprimise my design for the sake of easier and quicker css, if there is a way I will find it in the end. So thats what I’ve been doing, I think im on track for it being changed across at the weekend, I’m looking forward to it.






2 Comments
1.
Sounds advanced. I’m on a course which envoles some simple HTML for some reason and we constantly switch from one to another… too much text makes me sad =(
2.
It’s not hard, but it is a different approach that most people are used to, and I plan to stick up more tutorials on my site after I have finished the new redesign.
Tutorials for many different things, including some HTML and CSS tips.