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Create Your Own WordPress Theme from an HTML Template

WordPress has become the most widely used blogging platform in the world, estimated to be used on a quarter of a billion websites online today. WordPress works as a blog, but also as a straightforward content management system, ready to use with search-engine-friendly URLs and fully valid HTML and CSS.With so many sites using WordPress and only about 1,200 themes listed on WordPress.org, there are inevitably lots of sites looking exactly the same. You and your clients need to stand out, or end up being branded as “just another WordPress blog.”In this article, I’ll show you how to take an existing HTML and CSS site template and convert it into a theme for WordPress. Of course, WordPress theming is much too vast a topic to cover entirely in a single article, so I’ll provide you with some resources at the end to further your learning. It’s hoped, though, that this article will serve as a good introduction and give you a solid foundation to start learning aboutcreating your own WordP...

Convert any website layout or template into a Drupal theme - easily!

Convert any website layout or template into a Drupal theme - easily!     Theming for Drupal is not actually as hard as you may think. Certainly there are more advanced areas of theming possible with Drupal, which may or may not be necessary depending on the needs of your site or whether there are subtle defaults which you wish to change (and which you can learn about if and when they become necessary for your site). Creating the "overall theme" for your site though is very simple. A Drupal theme is nothing more than a standard website layout, with a few bits of PHP code added in certain places, which you can simply copy/paste into place in order to call up Drupal's "dynamic" content and features in those spots. If you learn better visually, videos are available which cover much of the same information that will be illustrated here:  Acquia Webinar . Contributed/downloaded themes are more complex than "your" theme needs to be You may ...

GETTING INTO E-COMMERCE AND STARTING A NEW ONLINE BUSINESS

As described in How to Establish a Successful OnlineBusiness or Blog in 5 Steps and throughout other books in the MoneyMaster Tutorials series, it is a terrific time to be an entrepreneur. The availability of cheap computer hardware, free or inexpensive software, and high-speed Internet access has created a powerful base from which to launch a new business and expand or transform existing ones. How to Establish a Successful OnlineBusiness or Blog in 5 Steps provides a complete guide on how to start an online business. The following example of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook describes some of the steps involved in setting up a successful e-business. FACEBOOK: MAKING A BUSINESS OUT OF FRIENDSHIP Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2010. Time said Zuckerberg was chosen “for connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information...