Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 3: Examining WordPress Themes with the Web Developer's Extension

By: Kim Cavanaugh on Friday, August 15, 2008
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There's little doubt that the fine, free, open source blogging package available from WordPress has enjoyed astounding success. With downloads of well over 50 million, the PHP, MySQL, and Apache powered WordPress package is currently the world's most popular blogging package and is in use by literally millions of designers and developers (and do-it-yourselfers)around the world.

The goal of this series of articles is to show you how to take what is already an awesome package—including an almost limitless supply of free design themes—and customize the look and feel of a WordPress site to meet your goals. Through this series you'll be learning how to use some of the design tools from Adobe, such as Fireworks and Dreamweaver, as well as free open source browser plugins to modify the design of a WordPress installation.

In this, the third article in the series you'll be learning how to examine the CSS that controls all WordPress themes so that you can take the next big stride towards customizing your blog to make it uniquely your own. And of course, if you're offering this service to clients, you'll pick up some valuable skills that you can market for those customers who want to take advantage of the incredible flexibility that comes with a WordPress blog.

The Customizing a WordPress Blog Series:
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 1: Editing Header Images
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 2: Examining WordPress Themes with the Firebug Extension for FF
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 3: Examining WordPress Themes with the Web Developer's Extension
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 4: Creating a Testing Environment Using MAMP and Dreamweaver
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 5: Editing WordPress Themes in Dreamweaver CS4
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 6: Using the Snapshot Technique for Editing WordPress Themes
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 7: Editing the Themes with Fireworks CS4

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