I found todays' class to be really cool! I didn't actually know that there was so many amazing themes out there (free no less!) that I could easily add to my wordpress and make my own. I mean sure, I knew that making child themes was a viable option, but I didn't know how easy it would be to actually start with a theme that is much closer to the end goal of my website.
Last year when we made the sites, we just had to use the 2012 theme, which was definitely beneficial as it actually helped us learn how to change the style of the website completely through a child theme. It was a challenge at times, as coding always seems to be but I can say that I did really learn a lot from that project. Considering that the 2012 theme was nothing like the theme that I actually wanted, it helped me to really learn a lot more about how a style page can be used to completely transform the look and feel of a site.
With this new way of doing things, I feel like I am leaps and bounds ahead of the game in that I don't need to make the site responsive on my own, or create multiple layers, as it has already been done for me.
I am wondering however if we will be doing a child theme as there are still some elements of the design that I do wish to change. For example, I would like to see my logo on the right side instead of the left, overlapping my navigation bar, and I would also like to see some different texts inputted and my chosen colour scheme. At this point the only way that I know how to do this would be a child theme that adds the styling that I want to overwrite some of the styling that they have put in place. Is this the only way? Either way I am excited to relearn that so that I can really get going on this project.
Choosing a theme definitely got me excited and pushed me in the right direction.
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