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Hello,
When offering WordPress as a service to clients, are you expected to develop them a theme from scratch or adapt an existing theme to a design (more like a child theme)?
I’m more of a designer than a developer and the thought of developing a theme from scratch haunts me.
Cheers,
Josh
It depends on what you’re offering. Those are two separate projects that depend on a client’s needs.
If developing a theme from scratch haunts you, my recommendation would be to partner with somebody that doesn’t think such scary thoughts!
@jshjohnson I’m a letterer (former web designer) and I was the same way. I use a pre-made blank template. It’s completely stripped of styling and just adds the very basic content. This allows you to build it up for what the project needs.
Since Chris posted a screencast long ago on how to go from PSD to WordPress and used a specific theme called “Starkers” (which does the same thing), everyone will recommend it. However, it’s really “bulky” and I never liked it. Below is a template I have used for a while now and can’t say enough about it.
@kgscott284 You’d really love my former employer then.
I have had a similar experience. I am a graphic designer learning to code my own sites but I had a client who wanted to control her backend so WordPress became a better option. What i did was explain that I was going to use a template and purchase the bundle to customize the css so that she would be able to control her text but I would control the design, even if a small amount of it. I was honest and explained that she could do the process without me and save some money or I could do it, and then train her on it. She went with that and I charged $350 to set the whole thing up and then do WordPress training too. Really she paid me for the hand holding but sometimes that is all a client wants.