We just released a brand new WordPress training course that teaches you from scratch, how to create a custom WordPress theme. Some details:
In this series, the viewer is taken through the entire design and development process, starting with doing the design in Photoshop, then building an HTML/CSS template, and finally integrating that template into a fully functioning WordPress theme.
The author demonstrates a wide range of WordPress functionality, including WordPress search, menus, sidebars and widgets, and how to theme posts, pages, categories and archives. In addition, install and use a favorite WordPress plugin: the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
This course is aimed at intermediate designers/programmers. To follow along, you are expected to have a basic understanding of Photoshop, HTML, CSS and PHP. The author demonstrates WordPress using a local install on a computer, meaning that web hosting isn’t required to follow along.
This video tutorial course is designed to take beginners and teach them the basics needed to know to setup and create a website running on the worlds most popular blogging engine, WordPress!
It is assumed that the viewer understands HTML and a bit of CSS. A basic understanding of PHP is helpful, but not required.
While its best to follow along and write the code, the project files are still included in this video – for those lazy folks out there!
I want to mention that we are busily working major upgrades to the killer video library, upgrades that will make it easier to find the videos you want to watch.
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Screenshot #1 – The video player now supports iPad and iOS video playback.
Screenshot #2 – Each video category will now have their own page and the videos are sortable.
Screenshot #3 – Each video course will have its own page.
The updated Killer Video Library should be out within a week. We have two new courses due out soon as well … more on that later.
Every so often we revamp our core video training packages with updated versions, so that they keep up with the technology changes.
For example, the current version of the Complete Web Designer, has brand new versions of the beginners web design course and our new Dreamweaver CS6 course too … among others.
I was meaning to write this in January, but things got in the way! Anyway, here are the web design trends for 2013 …
1. HTML 5
It think this one is a no brainer … everything and everyone is going HTML 5 and CSS 3:
Android (Google)
iOS / Mac OSX (Apple)
Windows (Microsoft)
… This includes all the major web browsers of course.
When people talk about HTML 5, they are really talking about a group of technologies that work together:
HTML 5
CSS 3
JavaScript
HTML 5 and CSS 3 are basically very powerful extensions to HTML and CSS … and so if you understand the basic principles and techniques of these two foundation web languages, HTML5 and CSS3 should be approachable. That said, the added power does present some head scratching challenges a long the way. No worries though, we have the easy to follow training for you.
I believe 2013 will be good for HTML5, CSS3 and small business development on the Web. That means you will see a lot more training from KillerSites on these subjects this year.
What else do we have coming up?
I have a lot planned but if I had to pick the top three things: