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Are WordPress templates really just HTML styled with CSS in the context of the WordPress "loop"?
Thanks.
Yes, a Wordpress theme can be as simple as a child theme that includes only a single css file with some css overrides, or a full fledged Theme Framework which includes copious amounts of php and more...or they can be just your normal theme(which generally contains css, possibly javascript, and php files that might utilize php only to integrate with the content Wordpress provides into an html document that is embedded in the php file).
The best way to start out playing with themes is to begin making child themes based off a theme like twentyten or twentyeleven made by Wordpress.
They are HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP
A quick answer to your question can be found on the requirements page for Wordpress, http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ where you see that php and mysql are required. If you browse through the developer and advanced topics sections you will see topics about the use of javascript and ajax in word press. I am sure there are other options available depending on how your installation is set up.
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Just signed up to Wordpress today and am already having several issues. I'm a front end developer, so I don't know a lot of php (I know some very basics). I tired to figure out how to add my own themes to Wordpress (basically I heard that you just code website normally with html, css and javascript like you usually would and then upload files to Wordpress). However I can't find this option anywhere, only changes I'm able to make are in GUI editor of current themes available in Wordpress. Can anyone explain how it works?
The general answer is no. Wordpress is built with PHP and content is served to the user using PHP.
Now, if you are just starting out and don't want to learn PHP here's my suggestion.
Find a theme as close to what you want your site to look like.
Then you can just modify the HTML, CSS and JS that supports the theme.
If you're not making drastic changes it should be fairly simple.
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I am working on a project (website) where I need to make a feature where users are able to publish a post, like a blog, so I wanted to keep the post data in the database. What rich text editor can you recommend to me, that is not very hard to use and that will replace the HTML text area?
Also, if I just directly put the content from rich text editor into a database field, what format the content actually will be? I am thinking of HTML string but not sure. So if it's HTML I can just echo the whole thing when displaying the post content? Sorry for that much questions and thank you for the help in advance.
I think TinyMCE suits for your blog.
TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG.
editor.
Take a look at the site: http://www.tinymce.com/ Also you can give a try here: http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php
I recommend using TinyMCE
It's pretty standard. I know it comes as an optional editor with Joomla! installation - so you know it's at least stable enough to be used in a large distribution of a widely-used CMS.
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I am new to Joomla and was going through several tutorials related to Joomla based designed. Although I have installed Joomla in my machine and have coded my PSD file into CSS/HTML
I am presently stuck with how I need to integrate this file into the Joomla package. Joomla has a default index.php page which it shows how do I replace that with my HTML page ?
You will want to throw your design into a Joomla Template. This tutorial should help, starting at step 4.
To save time you can try finding a template that closely matches your design's structure and modifying it.
Within the joomlaroot/templates/yourtemplatename/ folder you can edit the index.php, templateDetails.xml and any other files to get your desired look and feel. Any images you add to the design should be thrown in the template directory as well.
Make sure to only edit files in your template folder, or bad things can happen if you try to up date your Joomla installation in the future :)
You can refer below link. if you have any issue let me know.
Creating a basic Joomla! template
How to Create Your First Joomla Template
How to Build a Joomla Template: Start to Finish
Create a Template with Joomla: Step by Step
How to build Responsive Joomla Template?
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I am working in rails, and a looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great.
Any recommendations?
There are many resources out there, you can just google for well looking forms or something like this.
There are also javascript libraries which makes customized selects/checkboxes etc -for example a project called uniform - check it out, you might like it. It provides you tools to customize it.
You can try Gravity Forms for WordPress then you never need to hand code the html and it inserts unique id's and matching classes in the HTML. This means the sky is the limit when it comes to styling your form.
If you are not using WordPress, here is a nice tutorial for designing form layouts.
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I have completed designing the template in photoshop. now i want to convert it into html although i am very well aware of all the html, css javascript elements i use firebug too , i have converted many templates till date. my codes does not comprise of the quality it needs. when i download any templates from some premium sites and look onto their codes i feel my code is very bad in shape, my codes crave for improvement. i want to master the proper use of div , ul and li elements, and the css.
is their any proper resource on the web that could teach me how i do it?
is it good if i use 960gs framework?
My Bible: A List Apart
Well, HTML5 Boilerplate provides a layout for quick coding of pages, although you'll need to go through it and pick out what you don't need.
Line25 has a lot of tips on coding sites, including a tutorial on converting from PSD to HTML, and Soh Tanaka's site also has a lot of tutorials.
Such resources as bestpsdtohtml.com can be useful too
css-tricks is another great resource and has some free video content demonstrating converting a photoshop mock up into html and css.
I think this is the first of three showing the end to end process.