Creating aWord Press Template

Because Word Press was orginially a blogging plateform, and of course it still is today, but becuase it has the basis of a blog it list post in a chronological order meaning that it will show the newest post to the oldest post on the blog. This is a great idea, unless the blog owner wants to show a "landing page" to its users, who can then choose what page to go to for the information they want.

Putting together a landing page is not that hard in WordPress, but some users may not like the looks of the themes available and want to create their own custom page template for their site, using it either as a theme for their entire site or just as the landing page, or static front page. By static, I mean that unlike the typical WordPress blog page, the content remains the same. You can create navigation from your front page to other areas on your site to show off what you do.

Sadly creating your own landing page and customizing it will take some knowledge and you will need it in normal then one language. In this simple article I will not be covering the steps in which you need to create a custom word press template, because there isn't enough room, but I will be going over the tools that you will need to make sure you have before we start.

The easiest way to test your new page will be locally, on your own computer. Having a local server will enable you to keep all of your files in one place without having them get lost in transition. You will also need XAMP, if you run Windows or MAMP on Mac and the newest version of WordPress installed on your server. Note pad ++ is a free download that you can get for coding your own wordpress template and a web browser like firefox.

You should also look into taking some, usually free, tutorials on HTML, CSS and PHP. The three languages that I have noted above are the three main languages of the web and they will be used to make your custom template, the html and PHP are used for the same thing, basically the structure of the site while the CSS is used to customize and change the site with images and text format. You won't have to be an expert on these tools, but you will have to have a basic understanding of them in order to manipulate the instructions you are sending to the server.

For allot of bloggers it's allot easier to pay someone to make a custom template for them and they focus on the stuff they are good at, rather then muck around with stuff they know nothing about and don't care about. If your not willing t learn the code or it just seems to hard then comsider the customer template generators that are avaiable online, along with the free templates that come with word press.

These theme generators will allow you to define many areas of your blog to match colors and styles to your choosing, but for the most part are somewhat limited in the types of designs they can offer. On the plus side, all you really have to know is how to click your mouse to put together a custom WordPress theme. You also have the option to preview what you're doing and make changes until you are satisfied and then save your work for transition to your WordPress blog site.

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