Every web designer is familiar with WordPress and its strong designing capabilities. WordPress allows you to create beautiful and user-friendly websites. Besides tools and widgets, it also offers some free themes for website design. Of course, there are also plenty of paid themes available in the market that clients can buy online for custom WordPress website design. If you want to design a WordPress theme and make some money, here are a few helpful guidelines for you. Validate Your Code- You may have confidence in your designing skills, but don’t underestimate the importance of code validation. Sometimes designers make small [...]

Theme Options Panel – Changing themes is fun and a themes options panel allows you and your clients to change a number of things on WordPress theme without having to touch codes. Today, a majority of theme developments require carousal boxes, advertisement blocks, rss boxes and newsletters. Hence, every theme developer should know how to create a themes options panel. Short Codes – Understanding these can help you improve your themes. By using simple short codes in place of complicated codes to a page or post, you are making the use of themes easier for your users. WordPress Conditional Statements [...]

Open source softwares are very popular with web developers for website design. Two of the most popular open source content management systems are Joomla and WordPress. They are the two best web development applications and have acquired a fan following all across the world. There are other effective web developing applications like Drupal and Typo3, but they do not compare in terms of performance and popularity. Joomla and WordPress have their areas and specialties and they are chosen according to the purpose of the site. Here is a comparison of the two applications to help you decide which one would [...]