Help!! Converting PSD-Wordpress Theme (ultra-noob)

jamesclancaster

New Member
Hi guys!

- I'm very confused.

- I'm designing the look of a website about electronic music production.

This is the rough design for the blog page:
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- These are the main pages on it: Home, Blog (Bytes in the picture), Videos(Tutorials in the picture), Store, Forum, Contact.

- Users will login to their account to comment on blogposts/videos, buy from the store, and post on the forum.

- I thought about getting a WP theme from themeforest, but most themes are just a blog, or just videos, or just a store. It seems my site is a combination of everything.

- My plan is to design all the pages in photoshop and then pay a WP genius from elance or freelancer to convert my images into an editable wordpress theme.

- I have designed the basic look of the site, and have made mockups of the videos page, the blog page, the contact page, and I am working on the homepage.

- Many times throughout this process even with the power of google and forums I feel like it would all be so much easier if I had a web design expert sitting next to me able to answer any question. :D If anyone who fits that description would let me add them on skype, that would be so awesome. (I could pay you via paypal weekly just in return for answering the occasional question. :))

- I guess what I'm confused about is (other than everything) if I go to a freelance guy, what do I need to give him? Do I need to design every last page that could possibly occur on my site? (Forgot password, account registration, account profile/settings, 404, etc.)
 

jamesclancaster

New Member
thanks for the quick reply, chris.

just downloaded it.

It seems interesting, but I can't use my photoshop design in it, right?

it looks like it can only produce bland, windows 95-esque results, lol
 

chrishirst

Well-Known Member
Staff member
If you play about with it and insert your own images and suchlike into a layout it doesn't need to look generic.

The main thing is that it can produce the basis of a wordpress template that you can then alter.

The simple thing fact is, that it is a tool and the output from that tool is up to you.
 
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