subject: Pointers To Design An Effective And Beautiful Wordpress Theme [print this page] It's a fact that WordPress websites are dominating the Internet with their huge presence in the online world. WordPress is the leading and most used CMS in present times, most of the business websites and blogs are using WordPress for development this has lead to the huge demand for WP templates. If you are a designer and want to start your first designing project, WordPress provides you ample opportunities. Here are few tips you must consider while designing your Wordpress theme and to sell your work effectively.
>Use starter templates as a guide and create roadmap:
Making a theme is not an easy job and the first timers must take utmost precautions to build a theme from the scratch as it can lead to countless errors in design and usability. So, what can you do to avoid such errors? The best answer to this problem is to start your design project with a starter template provided by WordPress and use it as a foundation stone of your project. Even designers with years of experience use these templates to create a roadmap for their projects and to ensure design quality and functionality of their themes.
>Manage White space Effectively:
A skilled designer knows what to include in the website but an intelligent designer knows what to leave out. WordPress is still renowned as a powerful blogging medium where people come and read the content so it is quite mandatory that your viewers get an easy access and dont have to battle through clutter to get to the content. Consciously positioning space to facilitate that need helps make for a solid blog theme.
>Images and colors must be used intelligently:
It is rightly said that Excess of anything is bad. Theme designers sometimes get so engaged to create an extravagant designs for websites that they forget that website is not only a piece of digital art but it must be aesthetically pleasing. The blog is created to promote and showcase your content and if you have too many images or too many bold colors on the template, your design can overpower the content it should ideally promote. So it is important that the designers must use colors and images that compliment your content and enhance the richness of content.
>Check that your template works well across different machines and platforms:
What might look beautiful in your computer or browser might look distorted in a different browser as all web browsers display websites in a different way. So the designers must ensure that your website is working well or compatible with all the major browsers and operating systems. There are several free tools available online that can double check the websites look on different platforms.
