Hey everyone, I am starting this thread, expecting to get some answers by professional wordpress coders and Theme developers. Actually, I am a Photoshop designer and I know nothing about coding. My coding works usually go to a coder. But now, I need to start learning coding for some reasons or the other. Actually, I want to leave photoshop for some time and get into the coding world. I have started learning HTML 2 days ago and I really want to know how to code my PSDs to Wordpress. What I know is that I need a SOLID Foundation of Html and CSS. Can you guys tell me, when we talk of solid foundation, do I need to actually be able to close my eyes and be able to code something in my brains? Then I also read that I should know the basics of php...What kind of basic php? I have just started with HTML. I have way more to go. But I expect it will be like 1 month before i master html and css, then I will get into converting psd to html But Honestly i want to master wordpress. Can you please tell me what should I actually know? I will point out that I am using w3schools to learn HTML. Is this a good site? Will I acquire a solid foundation from this? Also, now that HTML 5 and CSS 3 are out, should I learn the basic HTML on w3 school? What about CSS, should I jump into CSS 3 instead of the normal CSS? Then I will have to turn PSD to HTML...Where should I learn that from? Is there a site which has some tuts on that? What about the PHP part of wordpress? The latter runs on PHP. Where should I start with php? I have bought the Rockstar Wordpress Designer ebooks yesterday. I have read quite a lot in the first. It states that I should have a solid foundation of HTML and CSS and then basic PHP. Well, the second Ebook is more advanced, going deep into admin settings etc. What I need is to be able to make my psd to a working wordpress first. Then I can move on to the second ebook. But the problem here is I don't know a thing about coding. Can you wordpress coders tell me where to start with? Thanks
If you are really motivated to learn about Wordpress coding, I would suggest you to go to their developer section: http://codex.wordpress.org/Developer_Documentation Regards
Well if you are really on PSD to Wordpress Theme then you should work on your html and css foundation. Because once you coded the PSD to XHTML / CSS, only need some "looping" knowledge of wordpress to completely convert the theme to a working wordpress. You really don't need to learn so much about php, except if you are planning to make custom functions, custom panels and plugins for wordpress.
Hey Guys Thanks for your help. I really appreciate that. @Yuuko008 - Yeah I read about the loops and things in Become a Rockstar Wordpress Designer Ebook. Actually, it states that i highly need the solid foundation of html/css and basic php. Can you Tell me where can i learn the PSD to HTML conversion? HTML is relatively easy to learn, but to apply it I think it's something different. I see that to make the PSD to XHTML, that also for worpdress ready conversion, the XHTML should be made in 3 parts, the Header, the Sidebar and footer. But I need to know how to make my PSD to such XHTML. Thanks
I saw a very good tutorial on Internet and would like to share with you. http://dzineblog.com/2009/04/tutorials-psd-to-html.html It has links to step by step tuts.....Hope this helps... Note - I've nothing to do with the link just stumbled it few days back so sharing here....
You've received some good feedback here. Honestly anything you can do in HTML/CSS you can do in WordPress. So once you have that down (divs are key), applying it into WordPress isn't that hard - u just have to know how to navigate to the right place.