Wordpress Installation (1 hour)
Make sure you have Apache(or IIS) + MySql + PHP installed on your computer and you can successfully get a PHP welcome page in you browser.
Tips:If you have none of them, an integrated environment , XAMPP or PHPStudy or EasyPHP is recommended.
Go to the Wordpress Site http://wordpress.org/ to download the latest wordpress zip to your local ,and it's easy to install that.
Create your own theme based on Boilerplate
Useful URL to help you start:
Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/boilerplate to download the theme and now you can create your own wonderful theme based on it.
Tips: when you get stumbled, Google and http://codex.wordpress.org/ are recommended first
Development for some common Modules of a site
You can try to implement some following modules for a whole site when you are ready.
- Menus; You can refer to this link for further details which is much useful-->http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_nav_menu
- Category ; This one is useful for you to start http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
- Page templates; You can take a start from http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates and http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
- Custom Fields ; You can have a look at this first http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields
- Contact form ;
- Some Plugins;