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Am building some really custom sites (basic grid though) in wordpress. Are there any base themes that are good to use as a foundation to develop custom themes? I know there are quite a few out there and was just curious if there were any that were made specially for foundational purposes.
Thematic in my experience is unmatched as a base theme. I would recommend that. It already has bits of grid systems incorporated such as 960.gs and blueprint css... However, it does require an intermediate to advanced level of wordpress theming knowledge. I use it exclusively to build themes as it's so easy to override portions and is very seo friendly.
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twentyten(the theme packaged with wordpress 3.0) Is great for this. You can learn a lot just from reading the comments in the code, and it has lots of features that you can customize for your own use. Carrington jam is another that that I have seen used.
The most popular one I know of is Thesis. It's not free, but I believe it's worth it.
http://diythemes.com/
You may use a theme generator to ease your work: http://www.lubith.com generates a TwentyTen based theme.
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I know there are so many similar questions, but none of them seems to answer what I am looking for. I have used WordPress but like 5 years ago, to create simple themes and websites. Since then I have been working on Web Applications such as React and Angular.
I am looking to bid on one of the city's website projects, but I need to understand what I am getting into. They ask to use a CMS. So my question is what CMS do they use when building big city websites?
https://www.edmonton.ca/
Notice the search functionality and I want to section they have. Popular search terms, popular programs/events/etc. Plus, they have categories within categories. I don't think it's feasible in WordPress. Any suggestion is welcome.
A lot of government sites are using WordPress including the the-white-house, so I think that answers the question whether or not you can actually use WordPress for such project. All plafforms have their pros and cons, and for a project such as a government site, WordPress should be a completely viable solution.
// https://wordpress.org/showcase/the-white-house/
Regarding the search, there are a lot of free and paid search plugins that improves the default search functionality in WP, such as the Search and Filter and SearcWP plugin, but you could also rely on third party libraries and do your own implementations if there are no plugins that suits your taste.
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Does anyone know of any responsive wordpress themes where I will have a great deal of control over the CSS and structure of the website? I want all of the functionality of wordpress like the blogging features, but I want to have total control over design and implementation.
Some of my favorite starter themes are: http://themble.com/bones/ and http://underscores.me/
You can look at frameworks like: http://themeshaper.com/thematic/ or http://my.studiopress.com/themes/genesis/
You can always grab any theme you like, and create a child theme: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Almost all of the new ones have this functionality for you. Especially ones that include Visual Composer - a drag and drop feature. If you want to hardcode CSS, most themes have options to include CSS specifically for the page or for the website in general in its own Theme Options (this is assuming you don't want to edit styles.css in editor).
I think you must go for "Avada" wordpress responsive multipurpose theme which let you customize many of the options from its backend only.
URL: Avada | Responsive Wordpress Multipurpose Theme
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Examples might include:
buttons (class="button" or similar)
rounded boxes with headings (class="content-box" or similar)
nice looking html tables (class="nice-table" or similar)
customised html form fields
[example class names just to give an idea of expected behaviour]
Basically I just want some readymade CSS for common things.
My non-designer friend wants to get started creating a web app and I feel that ready made simple but attractive CSS classes would be a great help.
Try this ones:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ — css framework from creators of twitter, have wide range of common elements.
http://foundation.zurb.com/ — another framework with hight focus on prototyping.
There is Skeleton: http://getskeleton.com. It has both JS and CSS patterns and is helpful for developing sites quickly, it's also mobile friendly.
jQuery UI provides a nice framework for this, even if you don't use the javascript side of things. You can reuse their CSS for whatever you need. See here:
http://jqueryui.com/docs/Theming/API
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
YUI3. Yahoo! has created some of the best rules for web development.
Reset - level all browsers
Fonts - level all fonts
Base - reapply some common styles
Grids - best way to manage grid-like layouts
http://yuilibrary.com/yui/css/
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Does anyone know if there are CSS templates purely for documentation purposes? I haven't been able to find any.
Edit: Looks like I will have to write my own. Basically it would have been nice to have a little css template that has pre-styled notice boxes and lists purely for the use of user guides or documentation but not too hard to setup.
try 960 grid
it's basically a CSS framework
Blueprint CSS
On a par with 960 Grid
You may want to check out the designs at the CSS Zen Garden.
The goal of this site is to showcase what is possible with CSS-based design. Style sheets contributed by various graphic designers are used to change the visual presentation of a single HTML file, producing hundreds of different designs. The HTML markup itself never changes between the different designs.
On each design page, you'd have a link to view the CSS file of that design.
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Honestly I'm very bad at CSS and not good at dealing with color / design.
Are there any helpful sites for things like pre-made, nicely skinned component, or layout of the whole site?
Thanks!
Here are a few:
http://www.oswd.org/
http://openwebdesign.org/
http://www.solucija.com/free-templates
http://www.opensourcetemplates.org/
for skeletal layouts: http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/
and few a few css tutorials http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/index.html
A slight tangent, but you may find the book The Principles of Beautiful Web Design an interesting read. It is aimed more toward non-designers looking to expand their design awareness.
I used the "Free CSS Template" website. When I created my web site they didn't have a lot of designs, but the ones they did have were clean, complete, and elegant. Pure XHTML and CSS. I had no trouble tweaking to fit my needs.
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/