I recently got a question from a reader following the "Creating a PHP CMS" series of tutorials asking about customizing the home page to be different from the rest of the site.
Continue reading to find out how to customize the home page in our simple CMS.
Accessibility is a commonly overlooked aspect of web design. To make a website accessible is pretty much to make it usable for as many people as possible. This is often specific to people with disabilities, but can be broadened to include:
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a section of their site called the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). This focuses mainly on accessibility for people with disabilities, and explains accessibility for people with disabilities.
Here are some simple tips to improve your website's accessibility.
What exactly makes a good design? You may come across some sites whose designs you love, and some you don't. Many of the good designs will have some similar qualities that improve the design, and make it a good design.
Here are a few things to remember when creating a new website design.
So, you've just created the new CMS that will replace every piece of software used on websites. Of course, the next step would be to release it to the public, right?
After you've got the functionality, you need to work on the design.
Sure, the default theme that users see is pretty important, so that you can effectively show off all of the great features. But it doesn't need to be perfect, since most people will use change the theme anyway.
You're going to be "selling" your software to the people who will be using the back-end. When convincing people to use your software, its overall usability will be greatly influenced by the back-end, because the visitors of a website don't care what platform it's running.
In this final part of our Creating a Wordpress Theme sub-series, we will be working on one of the most important parts of a blog: the comments section.
If you haven't been following the series, don't worry! All of these same techniques will still work on any Wordpress theme.
The comments section of a blog generally has three main parts: a list of trackbacks/pingbacks, the actual comments, and the comment form. Along with those, there are also several "options", such as having comments closed, being required to be logged in to comment, and many more.
All of these will be covered in this post, to create a simple comments template.