What Do I Need/need To Do To Customize A Joomla Or Wordpress Template?
December 30, 2009 under FAQ
what do i need/need to do to customize a Joomla or wordpress template?
besides dreamweaver , do i need to know coding to customize a already built template? all i know is html nothing else…is that a problem?
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You do not need to know coding to costumize WordPress theme. If would you like to change colors, wides, heights … you do not need coding, just follow these videos http://www.web2whizzing.com/create-succe…
You do not even need Dreamweaver to work with WordPress.
wordpress and joomla work in very different ways.
both use php to make calls. Wordpress has a pretty good guide on what all the php calls are and how u can tweak them in your html editor to do different things.
Wordpress is made up of various php templates (header, index, footer, sidebar etc) and then the mysql populates the pages dynamically.
Joomla is a bit more tricky, essentially it is made up of just 1 page. Between the php calls and the mysql html/php from other libraries and content from the database make up the end pages.
All of these are styled almost completely from CSS so that’s something your going to have to pick up.
When working with existing templates you will find that the work can be done in the templates, its always somewhat risky changing the core files of the platform.
So learn the php calls and understand the template structure of files. From there on you can do whatever you want.