by Darren Rowse
...The following post is part 2 (of 3) of a series of guest posts on the topic of Blog Design - written by blog designer, Peter Flaschner from Blog Studio.
In my last post, I described the process we use at The Blog Studio to design a web site. Today, we’re going to take the finished design and turn it into a fully functional WordPress theme.
So, ready? Excellent. For today’s lesson, you’ll need your graphics editor (Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Gimp, etc), an ftp program to upload files to your server, and a pencil and paper.
I’m going to gloss over a whole bunch of technical stuff here. The point of this post is not so much to teach you how to write html as it is to give you an insight into the process we use to design and build blogs.
Step 1: Plan the attack
Let’s take a look at the design I whipped up:
As you’ll see, this is an extremely flexible design, capable of being many things to many people, all without looking cookie cutter. (Note that I only had a couple of hours to work on this, so a masterpiece it is not. But it serves its purpose for the sake of this demonstration.) We need to take some extra care at the planning stage so that we can accommodate all the stuff the design doesn’t currently show.
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