Do you want to learn how to use WordPress for web design? Do you want to start a freelance career in web design, but thought you couldn’t because you’re not a developer? Did you know that over 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites on the internet run on WordPress? Whether you’ve been dreaming about designing your own website (and saving yourself some money), or starting your own business, this course if for you! It’s a beginner’s guide to learning how to become a web designer specializing in WordPress, and also other fundamentals such as: what web hosting is, why Firefox is a web designer’s best friend, and even how to edit images!
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Having your own blog isn’t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to have one. But to actually build a good blog to create a blog people want to read takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you’ve set it up.
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Using a framework helps simplify your workflow and makes writing CSS fun again. Learn how Compass (powered by Sass) can help you build responsive layouts that are easier, faster, and more compatible than using CSS alone. In this course, Ray Villalobos shows how to automate your workflow with Grunt.js, scaffold your HTML, modularize your Sass with partials, and get started styling with variables and mixins. Plus, learn how to create a mobile-first grid with Susy—without adding nonsemantic HTML markup.
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In these days of cross-platform and highly distributed application development, how do you stay relevant and needed as a developer? You place yourself right in the middle of all the action. In this course, I will walk you through what ASP.NET Web API is, how it is built upon well-known technology, and how to create your own HTTP service. Once you have completed this course, you will easily be able to create web services that will service other web applications, websites, desktop applications, and mobile applications all running on different operating systems.
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Description: So you want to become a web designer, but you have no idea where to start. Don’t panic! It is not as hard as it seems, but it requires time and effort. In this course, Adi Purdila we’ll be guiding you through the basic steps of becoming a web designer. You’ll learn lots of great information, like what tools to use and how HTML and CSS are used to create websites. Finally, you’ll put all this knowledge into practice and actually build your first functional web page.
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Many developers who build custom WordPress themes like to start with some sort of front-end development framework that provides them with out of the box CSS grids, responsive styles, common element styling and even JavaScript components. Of the many frameworks that provide these features, Bootstrap ranks among the most popular and in this course we will walk you through everything you need to know about setting up a custom WordPress theme that allows you to have full access to all Bootstrap features in your WordPress themes. We’ll show how to setup the basic theme files, properly import Bootstrap CSS and JS, integrate Boostrap menu styles with WordPress custom menus managed from the admin area, create default templates using common page layout design patterns, and call some of Bootstraps JS components like off canvas content and slideshows.
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Theming Basics for Drupal 7 will provide a solid foundation for translating designs into Drupal themes. You’ll learn to work with .info and tpl.php template files, how to add CSS and JavaScript, how to work with the rendering system, how to override templates, create regions, and use the Theme Developer tool. You’ll start with the original HTML, CSS and JavaScript template files that were provided by the designer so that you can follow along in translating the design into a Drupal 7 theme. This series will cover the basics of Drupal theming while the more advanced theming topics of working with the template.php file will be covered in the Advanced Theming for Drupal 7 series. These courses pair with each other, and will finish the complete implementation of the 960 Robots theme used in both courses. You can download the completed theme we’re building from Drupal.org at https://drupal.org/project/ninesixtyrobots.
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