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Designing Custom Sites Using Child Themes in WordPress and CSS

In this WordPress tutorial, we'll create a child theme for the WordPress website platform. Software required: WordPress, Firefox, CSS3, FTP, HTML5, Photoshop CS5.

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In this WordPress tutorial, we'll create a child theme for the WordPress website platform. We'll take an existing theme as a starting point and use Firefox Web Developer tools and its live preview to dissect and stylize our own version to create a custom site design. From this WordPress training you'll learn to interpret CSS code so that you can develop your own child themes. Software required: WordPress, Firefox, CSS3, FTP, HTML5, Photoshop CS5.

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