Written on 3/27/2006 at 11:40 am by Darren Rowse

How to Create a Blog Theme from Scratch

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:

Consulting with the client
Constructing a wire frame
Constructing an initial design idea in Fireworks.
Converting the design into the (WordPress/MovableType) template files
Tweaking the design to suit
Re-addressing the blog’s design after it’s been used for a month or two
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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Comments

Danny Foo says:

3/27/2006 at 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 says:

3/27/2006 at 7:39 pm

Thanks for the great tip