Introduction

Where to Begin to Learn How to Customize Thesis

A member asks how to begin learning to customize Thesis. We discuss the lessons we have where you can begin learning about customizing your Thesis website with CSS and where to find more resources. We have a revised series that we are working on for the Customize Thesis Like a Pro Lessons. The lessons completed [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

Filed Under Topics - Begin Here, CSS

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - Introduction

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Lesson 2 – Part 1 – Introduction to Editing Thesis Using CSS

Introduction to Editing Thesis Using CSS Welcome to Lesson 2 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. Thesis is a remarkably flexible and relatively easily customizable WordPress theme framework. And the easiest way to go beyond the customization that’s available to you in Thesis Design options is to learn how to edit CSS. [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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Ways to Learn HTML and CSS

In this session a member asks about 4 programming languages: HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript and where to learn more about them. We recommend starting with HTML and CSS because you can’t learn CSS independently of HTML. Then we suggest an excellent resource for learning these along with our own Customize Thesis Like a Pro [...]

Difficulty Level - Beginner

Filed Under Topics - Begin Here, CSS, HTML

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Lesson 2 – Introduction to Customizing Thesis Using CSS

In this Thesis video tutorial lesson we will learn the basic principles of customizing the appearance of your Thesis website using CSS. Fortunately Thesis is designed to be very easily customized using CSS and if you don’t know a thing about CSS it provides a very gentle introduction. You can make a huge impact on [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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Lesson 2 – Part 2 – Introduction to Thesis Style Sheets

Introduction to Thesis Style Sheets Welcome back to Part 2 of Lesson 2 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. In the second part of this lesson, we are going to examine the Thesis CSS files. Those are the external style sheets we talked about in the Part 1 of this lesson and [...]

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Customize Thesis Like a Pro – Introduction to editing the CSS

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I believe that one of the most compelling reasons for building your site with Thesis is the relative ease with which custom CSS and custom programming can be added to a Thesis site. An introductory level of CSS, HTML an PHP can get a website owner a very long way in customizing and designing a [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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Lesson 2 – Part 3 – Best Practices #1 Use Thesis Design Options Whenever Possible

Best Practices #1 Use Thesis Design Options Whenever Possible Welcome back to Part 3 of Lesson 2 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. In this third part of the lesson, we are going to begin looking at best practices rules. And rule number 1 of best practices is to use Design Options [...]

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Lesson 2 – Part 4 – Best Practices #2 Write the Minimum Code Necessary

Best Practices #2 Write the Minimum Code Necessary Welcome back to Part 4 of Lesson 2 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. In the fourth part of this lesson, we are looking at the second best practice in editing Thesis using CSS which is to write the minimum amount of code necessary. [...]

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Lesson 1 – Part 5 – Prepare Our Thesis Site for Customization

Prepare Our Thesis Website for Customization Welcome back to the 5th and final part of Lesson 1 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. In this final part of the lesson, we are going to prepare our Thesis website for customization. Dashboard Warning Message And so here I am at the website. I’m [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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Lesson 2 – Part 5 – Best Practices #3 Use Thesis .custom Class

Best Practices #3 Use Thesis .custom Class Welcome back to the 5th part of Lesson 2 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. In this fifth part of the lesson, we are going to continue looking at Best Practices rules and we’ll be looking at rule #3. Thesis gives Priority to the .custom [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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What is the difference between ID and Class in CSS

In this session, a member asks what is difference between the hash mark and period in CSS. We explain the difference is in the type of element it is, whether Class or ID element. An ID element is supposed to be used only once on any given page while a Class element can be used [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

Filed Under Topics - CSS

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Lesson 2 – Part 6 – Best Practices #4 Use Descriptive and Unique Names

Best Practices #4 Use Descriptive and Unique Names Welcome back to the 6th part of Lesson 2 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. In this part of the lesson, we are going to look at rule #4 which is when creating your own HTML structures, make sure you always use descriptive and [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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Lesson 2 – Part 7 – Best Practices #5 Never Use display:none;

Best Practices #5 Never Use display:none; Welcome back to the 7th part of Lesson 2 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. And in this part of the lesson, we’re going to continue looking at our customizing Thesis with CSS Best Practices and we’ll be looking at rule #5. And rule #5 says [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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Using Fonts on Your Site that are not Included with Thesis

A member asked how to use fonts other than those offered in Thesis. We get a brief introduction to font use online. We start by discussing “Web Safe” fonts. From there we talk about the Google Font Repository and Cufon Fonts. Discussed in this video are: Fonts that are available in Thesis Google’s new fonts [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

Filed Under Topics - Cufon Fonts, Fonts, Google Fonts, Web Fonts

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Lesson 2 – Part 8 – Best Practices #6 Always Work on a Local Copy of Your File

Best Practices #6 Always Work on a Local Copy of Your custom.css Welcome back to the 8th and final part of Lesson 2 of the Customize Thesis Like a Pro tutorial series. In this final part of the lesson, we are going to look at rule #6 which is always edit your local copy of [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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Video 1 – Preparing your Thesis site for customization

Running Time – 7:34

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Video 2 – Explore the Thesis CSS file Structure

Running Time – 6:20

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Video 3 – Best Practices in Editing Thesis CSS

Running Time – 10:28

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

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An Overview of How to Use Netbeans, FileZilla, Firefox and Web Developer to Edit CSS

In this session we give an overview and show examples of how to use Netbeans, FileZilla, Firefox and Web Developer to edit CSS. Video Transcripts Rick: Good evening Sean. Sean: Hi Rick, good evening. Rick: How are you doing, man? Sean: Oh not too bad. I’ve been working on the header plugin and that’s another [...]

Difficulty Level - Intermediate

Filed Under Topics - CSS, Firefox, FTP, NetBeans, Web Developer

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - FileZilla, Introduction, NetBeans, Web Developer

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