Free Themes
Feb 3rd, 2008 by author
Building Wordpress Themes – Basic Guidelines For Maintaining Quality
So the “creator” in you has decided to start building Wordpress themes! Interesting! Creating your own Wordpress themes can be great fun! You get to test your creative skills, as well as your HTML and CSS knowledge, and you also gain the inner contentment of “having given back to the community” something useful! Everybody is looking for a “new” free theme for Wordpress, and your designed theme could very well make someone’s day!
How To Get Your Design Approved?
There are a few quick tips here to get your own free theme for Wordpress approved by those picky designers! Firstly, you must remember to be yourself – be unique! People don’t want to see another theme exactly similar to the hundreds they have already seen! And when you are building Wordpress themes, make sure to check them across different browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
Remember to “comment your code” when you start building Wordpress themes , because if you can’t follow your code two years from now, nobody else will be able to understand it now! Make your theme widget-ready, because that’s what the users want these days. And remember to customize the “404 error page” and all those other easy-to-forget pages! Never get so carried away in building Wordpress themes that you don’t leave any room for your users’ content!
Ask yourself this question – “Would you like to use that theme?” Remain accessible to your users for prompt response and support. And once you are done with building Wordpress themes, make sure to “test run” them through a Wordpress theme viewer, before you release them to the public – you don’t want “bugs” to show up in public, do you?