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WordPress Themes Builder’s Guide

The most relaible theme guide that make things for you to manage and customise. The straight forward guide helps you to learn quicker and saves time.

You will discover how themes can save you thousands of dollars in a year on web development or website design cost.

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Learn from the guide to save lots of time and money on website development or website design costs and make customising your website design easy.

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Themes provide website owners with professional yet really inexpensive website templates that are easy to customize and could save you and your business hundreds of dollars on website development costs.

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In this blog post series on helping you understand WordPress features, we look at what WP themes are, how it can help your business and how WP themes can help you easily customize your website.

Powerful web management platforms like the WordPress CMS have effectively simplified web design and web development for business owners. This is a great news for businesses and individuals planning to build their own website which they can also manage themselves.

Prior to “blogging” and the development of sophisticated content management systems, if you needed a site, you typically would have to wait until both the web development and website design processes were fully completed. This process could take many weeks, even many months!

The development of themes helped change all this. In this blog post, you will learn what themes are and how they can help you and your business save money on web development costs, and how WP themes let you easily customize your WordPress site.

A Revolution In Web Site Design

More businesses today have been benefiting from a tremendous change in web design that started several years ago. If you own a business, you may want to know more about this, because it could save you thousands of dollars on web development and web design costs.

In a nutshell, this is what typically took place before WordPress were introduced:

First, you would discuss your project with a website developer or designer. Next, the design itself would be discussed and agreed upon. This involved time and money being spent with a professional web designer discussing design elements of your site, such as the, colours, styles, graphic elements, content, etc.

Every page of your website then had to be individually created with the elements and codes written into the content. All the pages were then assembled together into a website using link and navigation menus and uploaded to your server, together with all other files needed to make your website work – script libraries, graphic images, media, etc.

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Only after everything had been tested and worked the way it was supposed to (and looking the way a client had wanted it to look), was the site deemed as being finished and ready to go live.

The next phase in the evolution of business web design was the introduction of “web templates”. A website template allows presentation elements of the website to be worked on separately from content on the page. The introduction of ready-made templates helped to speed up the process of developing web sites and resulted in reduced production costs. This also allowed web development companies to expand their services to include small businesses with smaller budgets …

(image source: www.dreamweaver-templates.org)

As more small businesses started using “template-based” web design services, templates started being created that offered various customizable features, such as the ability to switch colours, styles, layouts

As websites and website building tools developed, website templates also began to evolve into website template “systems”, which allowed users and web designers to customize their web site’s visual elements.

And then, a “blogging” software called WordPress was developed and helped to start a new online publishing revolution …

A WordPress theme pushes website template systems, even further.

The WordPress theme system controls and integrates every aspect of your web site design. It lets you add a “skin” over your site similarly to what a template system does, but also gives you more control over the management and customization aspects of all template features.

As explained in the official WordPress site …

A WordPress Theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a weblog. These files are called template files. A Theme modifies the way the site is displayed, without modifying the underlying software. Themes may include customized template files, image files (*.jpg, *.gif), style sheets (*.css), custom Pages, as well as any necessary code files (*.php).

(source: WordPress.org)

As the above states, one of the unique features of the WordPress theme is that how your website looks to visitors externally in no way affects your site’s content management aspects.

Basically, what this means is that you can modify the design of your site as much and as often as you want without modifying your website’s content and all the work you’ve put into it. For example, if you have configured your site for e-commerce, replacing the theme won’t affect the content or the functionality of the site. All e-commerce features, settings, and product information will remain intact, but the site will look completely different.

This is huge! Why?

Because with WordPress, you no longer have to wait until your site’s web design is completed. You can get your website built quickly and get started with any theme you want, and change the entire look, feel and design of your site in a few minutes, whenever you choose as often as you like!

Even better, you can easily replace any theme on your site without needing web code development skills. Just pick a theme you want, upload it to your site and activate it. WordPress allows you to change your web design and customize elements like headers, layout, styling options and more in a few seconds …

Since WordPress is made available as open source software, commercial web design companies from all over the world can design themes specifically for the WP CMS platform using the WP template system.

This means that thousands of high quality WordPress themes are made available to WordPress users. WP are generally distributed for Free under the terms of the GNU General Public License Definition, or sold as Premium (paid) themes.

The WordPress team keeps a FREE directory of WordPress themes which gives WordPress users access thousands of great themes at no cost â€¦

(WordPress.org – Free WP Theme Directory)

As the popularity of WordPress increases, more designers are now focusing on creating themes for a wider range of applications.

Theme varies from minimal-looking, to stylish designs, that are quite spectacular and could typically cost thousands of dollars to design. Surprisingly, most premium WordPress themes can be bought quite inexpensively, especially when you compare the cost to what it would have cost you if a website designer had to build it from scratch.

Benefits And Advantages Of WP Themes

Here are just some of the benefits of using WordPress themes over using traditional web template design:

Ready To Start Using In Minutes

Theme are very easy to install on your site. Simply upload it to your Plugin folder via your WP dashboard and activate. Even easier still, you can install any of the themes listed in the WordPress theme directory at WordPress.org) directly from your WP admin’s “Theme” section.

Additionally …

WordPress has a large online community of commercial theme designers who, collectively, make thousands of fantastic WordPress Themes available to WP users. Many of these themes are 100% free to use!
Themes give sites a consistent “look and feel” across all the blog’s elements, such as pages, headers, footers, menus, etc …
A “theme” works independently of your blog’s content. This makes it possible to change themes as often as you want without disturbing the underlying content.
Many themes provide additional built-in features and options that enable you to easily customize the theme’s style and design properties to create a unique look to suit your preferences.
Many themes are built using a framework that allows users to upgrade the theme to a newer theme version without losing any unique customizations (e.g. CSS styles)
WordPress lets you search, upload, install and update WordPress Themes automatically right within your site’s administration interface.
Themes helps you save thousands of dollars on website design costs. Free themes cost nothing and most “Premium”themes are normally very affordable.

Responsive WP Themes

Many theme developers are now creating themes that incorporate “responsive” functionality.

A responsive theme enables websites to automatically resize to display smoothly over different screen sizes and resolutions, as well as different devices (e.g. lap tops, tablets, mobile phones, etc.) …

A responsive theme is also optimized for different platforms. Users can scroll, read and load your site on different device browsers without having to readjust their browser settings, or requiring website owners to install additional display elements.

Note: When purchasing WordPress themes, it’s a good idea to choose a responsive WordPress theme. Not only will the theme ensure that your website will work correctly across all of your visitors’ devices, it also means that the theme is newer than non-responsive themes and therefore probably complies with the latest standards, practices and techniques of web design coding.

I hope this overview has helped you gain a better understanding about WP themes, what WordPress themes are, how themes can help your business save money on website development costs, and how themes make it easy to customize a website.

WordPress is huge and can sometimes be overwhelming about where to start. As you move on to the next Page, you will have a clearer picture of where to start and progress to building a professional WordPress Site.