Modular, mobile-first web design ensures your WordPress themes are performant and lightweight, and work well across all screen sizes and devices. This video tutorial discusses how to set up a forward-thinking design philosophy for your projects.
- [Instructor] Look around you and you'll see…smartphones, and tablets, and other…web connected devices everywhere you go.…And a proliferation of these mobile devices…with different input methods and different screen sizes…have caused a drastic change in the way we do…web design and development.…The tried and true method of creating pixel perfect…graphics in Photoshop or iIlustrator,…and then creating HTML and CSS versions of them…is simply no longer valid.…The current best practice for web design is…Modular Mobile-First Design,…and that's what we'll be doing in this course.…
What does that mean?…Three things.…First off, instead of designing an entire page…with all it's content, we're going to design modules…that fit together to form a full view.…That way, things can be moved around and connected…in a more dynamic way.…Secondly, we'll design and build everything for small…screens first, specifically a vertical smartphone,…and then when everything looks good on that screen…we'll scale up the screen and apply…responsive design principles to make the same content…
Author
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Released
2/6/2017- Setting up a WordPress development environment
- Getting and installing _s
- Automating theme development with Gulp
- The WordPress template hierarchy
- Setting up the basic theme
- Registering and displaying menus
- Applying styles to menus
- Creating conditional layouts
- Working with the comments template
- Working with featured images
- Working with widget areas, or sidebars
- Working with index templates
- Working with static pages
- Adding features to the Customizer
Skill Level Advanced
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome58s
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1. Set Up a WordPress Development Environment
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Get and install _s3m 48s
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2. The Design to Development Process
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Modular, mobile-first design2m 19s
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Underscores: An overview1m 50s
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3. Set Up the Basic Theme
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Configure the theme info5m 32s
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Create responsive typography6m 19s
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4. Build the Header
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Style the default header8m 3s
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5. Create Menus
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Apply styles to the menu6m 33s
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6. Configure the Single Post Template
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Apply CSS to the post header6m 25s
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Style image galleries1m 56s
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Configure post navigation6m 19s
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7. Create Conditional Layouts
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Planning an unusual layout1m 49s
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8. Work with Comments
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Apply CSS to comments5m 41s
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9. Work with Featured Images
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10. Work with Widget Areas (Sidebars)
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11. Work with Index templates
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Customize the excerpt output3m 51s
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Highlight sticky posts4m 57s
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Customize archive pages5m 51s
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12. Work with Static Pages
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13. Advanced Features
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Add SVG icon functionality9m 16s
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14. Adding Features to the Customizer
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Get to know the Customizer4m 20s
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15. Back-End Customization
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Add a screenshot2m 44s
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Conclusion
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Going further with WordPress2m 15s
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