Written on March 27th, 2006 at 11:03 am by Darren Rowse

How to Create a Blog Theme from Scratch

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ProBlogger.net’s blog designer Rachel Cunliffe has started a series of posts that I’m sure many of you who love to play around with your blog’s templates will enjoy. In her post Creating a blog theme from scratch she outlines where she’d headed with it. Her 7 steps are:

1. Consulting with the client
2. Constructing a wire frame
3. Constructing an initial design idea in Fireworks.
4. Converting the design into the (Wordpress/MovableType) template files
5. Tweaking the design to suit
6. Re-addressing the blog’s design after it’s been used for a month or two
7. Blog maintenance

While I’m no designer (and suspect I never will be) I’m looking forward to reading more on how a pro blog designer does it.

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2 Responses to “How to Create a Blog Theme from Scratch”

• Danny Foo

  March 27th, 2006 2:06 pm

  I just got an entry out about the basics and I tried to keep it as short as I could.

  Cheers.

• truongn2

  March 27th, 2006 7:39 pm

  Thanks for the great tip

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