TruBru was developed using the ever popular WordPress platform. I created the theme from scratch with help from a great tutorial at Web Designer Wall as well as the WordPress Codex.
Before I designed the theme, I reviewed other blogs out there to see which type of format I would like to follow. Sarah Parmenter’s blog at sazzy.co.uk was a good source of inspiration. I liked the format of Sarah’s blog as it was simple and straight forward with the main focus being the content and not adverts or bold design elements.
I found it best to consider all elements such as pages, single posts, archive, etc when designing the site. Once I was satisfied with the design I followed a process similar to that in the Web Designer Wall tutorial. I created a html/css template which contained all parts needed for the theme. This was then broken up in to separate chunks to create the final theme template files, inserting the php code snippets where appropriate.
Previously about tea, this blog was re-launched in 2010 to talk about front end web development. Founded by Stuart Holmes, its main topics will be about what holds a website together such as html, css, javascript and also about web design.
I have been building websites for over 3 years to W3C standards in html and accessibility. The websites I design are stylised as clean, simple to use and include standard design elements to ensure a standard of usability.
I hope you enjoy this blog as much as I enjoy writing for it.
© Copyright Stuart Holmes 2006-2012. Some icon credits to Gentleface. Background from Subtle Patterns.
