PSD to wordpress

stoke1863

stoke1863

stoke1863

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Hey guys got a little bit of a project to do. I have a PSD file and normally now i would just code it in XHTML/CSS but i fancied having a play word Wordpress.

In previous projects for stuff like magento (e-commerce) where i need to incorporate a custom design i have simply taken a blank theme and then used the CSS and stuff to incorporate my own theme.

What is the best way to design a custom theme into wordpress? The site will not look like a blog it will be a standard website.

Any links would be appreciated.
 
There are a few completely blank templates that you can start from scratch with but it can get a bit complicated.

I used the default twenty ten theme and changed it from there. Having done it once - I can reuse that one and work from there.

Its mostly just CSS you have to play with but I had to remove some of page items manually from the loop and page files.
 
The default Twenty themes are nice as a starting point. Other methods are using a framework theme like Thematic, but in my experience they are more difficult to start using, so I would learn with the TwentyEleven one.
 
I would personally have a google for the html5boilerplate wordpress template. There is loads of rubbish in the twentyten etc themes that you wont use and will have to either rip out or leave where it is. Better to start from the ground up with just the various methods that you need in the template .
 
Another good couple of frameworks: Whiteboard and Starkers. I use Whiteboard at the moment but no doubt I'll get bored soon and try out others. Starkers I have used previously.
 
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