WordPress Web Design For Dummies

WordPress Web Design for Dummies, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, Copyright © 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-54661-1 Author Lisa Sabin-Wilson does a great job of explaining the WordPress Web Design fundamentals. First she helps you establish your WordPress foundation by guiding you through a look at your requirements. Plus you can easily learn to install WordPress on your Web Server, and to archive content. Next she helps you choose the right tools to support WordPress endeavors like image management tools and graphic design software. A review of color theory, and planning your design strategy is also clearly explained. Then she walks through working with WordPress Themes for customization of your website. She wraps up by explaining how to use WordPress as a content management system, along with Widgets and Plugins. Recently, I renovated one of my websites that had some content that was over four years old. You can probably imagine the job of updating a four-year-old website. I didn’t look forward to learning a new web content management system, but WordPress Web Design for Dummies made the transition nearly effortless. The process of managing posts and pages is fairly intuitive. Adding images is painless. The practice of editing over 200 posts and pages took about half the time I expected. Sabin-Wilson’s experience and writing produce an excellent WordPress web design resource. I highly recommend it for someone with any level of web development skills.

Okay, the author makes this pretty clear at the beginning of the book, but I feel I should emphasize: Do NOT be mislead by the word "dummies" in the title. This is not a book for beginners. I know my way around a computer and I found this book a little intimidating. I'm plowing my way through it, but it's quite a bit of information to digest. That being said, this book is an excellent resource. Not only does it provide detailed instructions, it has all kinds of little extras (the info on color optimization tools was worth the cost of the book all on its own!). I would definitely recommend this book to someone who really wants to customize and work in depth with WordPress -- it's not for the casual user who wants his/her own blog in 30 minutes or less...

I have been struggling to understand how to make wordpress work for my publication, I have worked with a designer before on another site. While he was wonderful and gave me you tube explanation, I still was confused. I did not know what wordpress was capable of doing and what I could ask the designer to do. I am comfortable enough to undertake working by myself on the site. I love this book and the tons of examples. She never talks down to the reader, but she is clear. Thank you to the author for writing the book

I looked at a lot of books on WordPress because I didn't want to make a blog...I wanted to use it to make websites. So many of the books are just WP for blogs or claim to address BOTH but then only give a chapter to the web design aspect which like it's an afterthought. As the title says, this book makes WordPress and Web Design the topic of the entire book! It is well organized and in a logical way. I was able to get most of my questions answered and get up and running installing WP on my server (no brainer or book needed) installing a theme (again automatic) now customizing and tweaking the theme...THIS is what I bought the book for and it delivered! I was used to Dreamweaver and other visual web editors and this book explained the WP interface in such a way that I was able to relate and get the tools within WP to customize the pages using the CMS aspects and dynamic page construction to actually get the results I wanted. It gave me enough explanation of what was going on under the hood to understand without saying this is just how it works but WHY it works and that was the information all the other books lacked (besides having the primary focus on making websites and not blogs). Not too technical however that it was still quite good for someone just starting out with WordPress so have no fear. This book was the best of both worlds - Get this book!

Very well written, many details. I learn a lot, but I found the struktur of the book a little bit unlogical. I also found that there was too much information on how to make blogs, when I only was interested in Webdesign on a normal homepage.

This book is incomprehensible for a newbie. Go to you tube videos first and get a real beginners hang and then buy a book to learn about what you are watching.

Short on precise step-by step instructions and examples on how to perform various functions (forms, videos, images, ... even on how to blog comments and repies!). Diagrams far too small (need magnifier glasses to read the fine print in diagrams) ..... Nonetheless, an informative and very useful book for the beginning WordPresser.

Good book, much breadth and depth of WordPress and the entire ecosystem.

The book met my requirements. Very good one. Basics are clearly explained.

If you've used WordPress before then this book is ideal for you, the book lays out plans from the first chapter to give information on customizing your WordPress site. It also goes into depth of how to make your own templates for which I found very useful, also how to make your very own themes, which WordPress is all about. General information on widgets, plugins and themes are given so that you can get the best out of WordPress. The book is aimed at website developers and people who want to learn the in's and out's of WordPress.

As one would expect from this range of books very good quality and well written. Price was right and efficient quick delivery even during the busy Christmas period.

This must be one of the best written and informative books on programming I have read during the last twenty-five years. Very clear and concise, I would think it essential for anyone interested in Wordpress web design.

This is a great book for developing ones knowledge on Wordpress websites. All is set out clearly and its easy to understand what is generally a complicated load of jargon