Finally, the next episode of my WordPress webcast is up…. it’s a little shorter than usual, but we tackle the possibility on how to display a static page as frontpage, and how to create page-templates. As usual, there’s also a little CSS in it.
I think I finally fixed the audio – so I hope everybody is kind of able to understand me clearly 
Today we start coding the site. We turn away from the design and go down to the bottom of every WordPress theme – the Loop.
I switched to blip.tv for hosting my files – as they start to get pretty large these days…. hope everything works fine for everybody!
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So here we go with the second episode on how I created the BlueMonday WordPress theme. In the meantime, some minor things changed, but the website is up and running and you can see it at www.bluemonday-coaching.ch.
In this episode, I am explaining the photoshop technique behind the theme. I decided not to actually re-create the PSD file, as this is probably pretty boring, however, I hope this webcast gives you some idea in how I attacked the challenge.
I got inspired from other websites; especially, I want to mention the really nice Paper Business theme, which is also discussed in a similar webcast series over at In the Woods. Now, I hope that you don’t blame me of simple plagiarism – as I had the idea for this webcast in me for quite a while, but never had a completed, good theme at hand to realize it. So hopefully, you appreciate my efforts here – in the next couple of webcasts, I will dive into WP theme creation, and I will definitively follow a different track than Drew, although I like his style very much.
For the navigation bit at the top, I had some ideas, but never really got down to the bottom, until I encountered this nice list at SmashingMagazine. Look at nclud.com – the little triangles are inspired by this site…
Other parts of this series
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