Title: Making a theme in wordpress
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# Making a theme in wordpress

 *  [LukeWatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukewatson/)
 * (@lukewatson)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-theme-in-wordpress/)
 * Hi guys, really sorry if this is a stupid question but how do I go about designing
   a theme in wordpress, I understand the php part and css (Well I dont understand
   it but I understand I will need to understand it)
    What I dont understand is 
   how to make the design for it like the canvas of the website, is making a site
   in dreamweaver and then converting it to a wordpress theme a good idea or is 
   it more efficient to build the theme using a local host and editing the php files?
 * If it is better to make it on a local host can someone explain to me how i would
   make the site graphical rather than just being a unattractive organised mess?
 * I’m sure you can tell I’m quite new to this, I can use WP easy but I feel I am
   very limited as I dont understand themes or plugins very well
 * Any help will be appreciated
 * Thanks

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-theme-in-wordpress/#post-3178620)
 * This is a good place to start:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
 * There are also tons of other resources out there on how to use WP and building
   themes…
    [http://wordpress.tv/](http://wordpress.tv/) You tube many books
 * How you go about it depends on what you want to do or are comfortable doing…
 * In making it look nice, CSS is your answer — this is a good reference site — 
   but again, tons of other resources out there
 * [http://www.w3schools.com/css/](http://www.w3schools.com/css/)
 *  [Jay Hoffmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhoffm34/)
 * (@jhoffm34)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-theme-in-wordpress/#post-3178621)
 * Also, the Automattic Theme Team are in the process of unveiling a theme development
   guide on their blog. It’s got sixteen steps that takes you through the whole 
   process with semantically-sound HTML-5 and CSS3. Worth checking out.
 * [http://themeshaper.com/2012/10/22/the-themeshaper-wordpress-theme-tutorial-2nd-edition/](http://themeshaper.com/2012/10/22/the-themeshaper-wordpress-theme-tutorial-2nd-edition/)

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