wordpress themes - from designer’s perspective

WordPress Themes- From Designer’s Perspective

PRESENTED BY:

Kanchha Kaji Prajapati (creativekaji)Theme Designer/Front-End Web Developer

eVision Themes

WordPress Themes Overview Presented By: Kanchha Kaji Prajapati (Creativekaji)

What we’ll cover today?

How designers worked in 2015

Latest Theme Design Trends

Things to Do Before Developing New Theme

How Designers Worked In 2015


( On the base of uploaded Over 1,000 designs into Avocode.com )

What styling was in fashion?


LAYER EFFECTS

What was the world's perfect type?


FONTS

Most things were told from the left side


PARAGRAPH STYLE

Rounded beats squared


CORNER RADIUS

Where do we draw the line?


STROKE ALIGN

What's the true color of 2015?


COLORS

Top 10 Design Trends of WordPress Themes


1. Flat and Minimalist design is here to stay

2. Grid Layout

3. Responsive will no longer be optional


4. Fly-out/off-canvas menus not just for mobile

5. Scrolling is the new clicking

6. Modular/Box design on home pagepinterest.com


Scalable vector graphics (SVG)

Look out for large or moving background images

Ghost Buttons on banner

Lazy Loading


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Things to Do Before Developing New Theme


Developing a color scheme

Take care for Typography

Styling default elements ul, ol, li, button, blockquote, pre, form elements, table, widgets


Usage of WP default ids/Classes

Follow CSS Coding Standards#selector-1,#selector-2{ background: #ffffff; color: #000;}

Styling WP default pagesBlog listing, Single post/page, 404 page error, search list etc.


Styling for Print ready

Right-to-Left Language Support

All things must under free licenseGNU GPL or GPL, MIT, CC etc.



Reference links

https://2015.avocode.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=avcd-2015

https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/coding-standards/css/

https://codex.wordpress.org/Site_Design_and_Layout

THANK YOU ANY QUESTION?


Kanchha Kaji Prajapati (creativekaji)Theme Designer/Front-End Web Developerat eVision Themes

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