John McAlester

New Theme for johnmcalester.com

I have been working with WordPress for about a year now. At first just learning the structure of a WordPress site and then branching out to modifying themes and using WordPress as a CMS. It was rewarding work but often very frustrating.  I recently came across and really nice tutorial by Chris Coyier of css-tricks.com which outlines how to create a WordPress theme from scratch.

The tutorials cover creating a theme from start to finish in an easy to follow way and they helped me to clear out some bad habits that I have acquired over the last year.  The best part of the tutorial, I think, is that Chris shows how to design your theme from a blank theme.  This really helps to start things off on the right foot and create a solid foundation for your theme minus a lot of the frustration.  From the tutorial I created the new theme for this site. Thanks!

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