Just joined up after visiting this site for a number of years!
I usually use Drupal CMS and the Omega mobile first theme but have decided to use wordpress for my personal site. It seems wordpress can do exactly what I want in addition to having a clean and much more usable dash (IMHO) compared to Drupal. The thing is, I'm at a bit of a loss on how to actually get started. Got wordpress installed, I like the idea of being able to tweak the html myself (Drupal gives you little control over that). I'm good to go, apart from the barrier of choosing a theme.
In Drupal I would use the Omega theme and make a child theme of that so theme updates didn't overwrite my changes.
Is it the same sort of thing with wordpress? Maybe using a framework with a child theme? I looked at bones starter theme but don't know LESS/SASS yet so would prefer to stick with good old fashioned css until I am more comfortable with theming. Basically, what do other people do who make custom responsive wordpress sites?
My suggestion is wordPress is the best way for user friendly.I want to improve my wordPress knowledge through this forum. I have just gone through these videoplus and skeleton word press themes.
I have since installed bones html5 theme and am playing about with that. Not sure the difference between that skeleton but I'm sure it will become more obvious the more I go along!
The first obvious difference is that Bones is supposed to be tweaked and be used as a standalone theme, rather than being a base theme.
@Dhanishta, I'm doing the same, watching videos and reading many guides/forums.
Hi everyone,
Just joined up after visiting this site for a number of years!
I usually use Drupal CMS and the Omega mobile first theme but have decided to use wordpress for my personal site. It seems wordpress can do exactly what I want in addition to having a clean and much more usable dash (IMHO) compared to Drupal. The thing is, I'm at a bit of a loss on how to actually get started. Got wordpress installed, I like the idea of being able to tweak the html myself (Drupal gives you little control over that). I'm good to go, apart from the barrier of choosing a theme.
In Drupal I would use the Omega theme and make a child theme of that so theme updates didn't overwrite my changes.
Is it the same sort of thing with wordpress? Maybe using a framework with a child theme? I looked at bones starter theme but don't know LESS/SASS yet so would prefer to stick with good old fashioned css until I am more comfortable with theming. Basically, what do other people do who make custom responsive wordpress sites?
Something like this is what I'm trying to achieve: http://www.theme-junkie.com/themes/videoplus/
I could of course just buy the theme and get on with it, but what would be the point in that? I wouldn't learn anything. :)
Any pointers would be more than appreciated. Thanks.
Sam.
WordPress does work quite the same way with parent/child themes. If you are looking for a responsive bare-bones theme for WordPress I would suggest starting with Skeleton (http://www.simplethemes.com/blog/entry/skeleton-wordpress-theme). From there you can create a new child theme (see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) and customize to your hearts content.
My suggestion is wordPress is the best way for user friendly.I want to improve my wordPress knowledge through this forum. I have just gone through these videoplus and skeleton word press themes.
@cssgirl, thanks.
I have since installed bones html5 theme and am playing about with that. Not sure the difference between that skeleton but I'm sure it will become more obvious the more I go along!
The first obvious difference is that Bones is supposed to be tweaked and be used as a standalone theme, rather than being a base theme.
@Dhanishta, I'm doing the same, watching videos and reading many guides/forums.
Sam.
@sc25893: It's alot of learning you can get on this link: http://themble.com/bones/