Some designers really hate WordPress.

They say that WordPress limits their creativity.
They say that it is not so easy to use, and that customers tend to be very confused when interacting with it.
They say that it is difficult to convert a modern design into a usable theme.
And, here is the best, they are right. At least in part.

The design process in 4 steps

WordPress is not perfect as a web development platform, especially when working with clients. That is why we need to adapt a certain approach if we want to make them happy (read: to be paid).

There are several elements and processes that make some constructions in WordPress Design much better, simpler and more effective than others.

But the funny thing is that, in the end, putting together a great WordPress site is not that difficult once you know and understand one of the work processes.

So what I want to show you today is exactly one of those processes – the approach you can take to build a great WordPress site from top to bottom, and in a way that your clients will love.

The 4-step process of # designing a #WordPress site (and in a way that your client will love) 🤩

Let’s start! And I’m sorry, but there’s no other way to say this:

Step # 1: Steal!

Yes, steal. As in the taking of things. Where by things I mean ideas.

Note. Never steal the results of anyone’s work, including code, graphics, brand identity, names, things like that.

Once again, it’s just about stealing ideas. And while you might be a kind of “I do not know” about it, let me tell you that stealing ideas is the most common design practice in all of them.

“Nothing is original, steal from any place that resonates with inspiration or feeds your imagination.” Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul.If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable, originality is nonexistent. “

Here is a quote from Jim Jarmusch:

The fact is that an idea in itself has no value. What matters is the execution. You can easily make 10 people start with the same idea, and they will inevitably end up with 10 different results.

Do not be afraid to steal ideas. If you see something that resonates with you, take it and finish it.

Step # 2: Put the foundations first

This is something I learned a few years ago when I was running a web design agency: Customers do not care how beautiful your website is, they only care about the results it produces. So step # 2 is always making sure that you understand what the client wants to achieve with your site. I learnt this from the best diseño web las palmas

(Or what you want to achieve with the site if you are building it for yourself.) The advice also applies if you are your own customer.)

Once you know what you want to achieve (which should be just one main thing and not 5-10 different things, by the way) then you can continue to build the whole site around it.

Some of the most popular goals for websites include things like: generating leads, selling a product, improving brand awareness, etc.

Step # 3: Obtain the correct set of tools

I guess you’re not here for the obvious, so let’s leave the basic tools outside of this talk (like Dropbox, Google Drive, Photoshop, etc.).

Instead, I want to show you a different set – tools that are not well known yet, but still offer a lot (!) And make life easier for every WordPress designer.

In the last two years, we have been exploring the landscape of WordPress in a broad and deep way. This has resulted in a collection of messages that reveal some of the most useful tools that a WordPress person can use:

Step # 4: Design or modify – that’s the question

There are basically two main ways to build a WordPress site: You can take a topic already done and modify it here and there (you can also modify the PSD files – most of the themes come with them), or you can build the real structure from scratch.

To shorten the discussion, we are fans of the first one. If you take an existing theme or a theme framework, you get a lot of functionality from the box. And that is a functionality that has been proven by other people and that has proven to work correctly.

Apart from that, you often get support, and even if there is no support, at least you get a community forum of some kind. In other words, in case of difficulties, there is always someone to whom you can ask for help. It is not the situation when the design is constructed from scratch.

The main thematic store in which we trust, because we are the ones who run it, is ThemeIsle. If you like to have more options, cool, no hard feelings … here is a resource that looks at the WordPress thematic market, analyzing more than 110 thematic stores.

:: Aberro Corporate Overview ::

About Aberro
Aberro, Inc., is a software product and services company that creates highly effective software testing systems. Aberro’s disruptive technology solutions helps users to improve software quality dramatically, reduce testing costs, and accelerate time to market. Whether software is developed for external markets or internal corporate applications, Aberro improves the quality for this release and versions to come. 

Aberro’s Market Opportunity
The opportunity for better software testing tools is significant. Worldwide, the software industry currently spends over $1.5 billion on current-generation testing tools. Today’s tools for functional testing employ scripting as the primary method to automate the test effort. Despite significant shortcomings, this method has remained fundamentally unchanged for 15 years. Other testing tools require significant programming skills to deploy and maintain. Even skilled QA professionals find these tools to be difficult to use and ineffective during the early functional testing stage of product development. What is more, these testing tools are exceedingly expensive yet yield results of little value.

From small development shops to major corporations, users are actively seeking testing systems that are easy to use, faster to deploy, and able to find software defects reliably. Further, there is a sizeable, underserved market or “automation gap,” as there are no productivity tools to assist the manual tester. These QA professionals and the testing cycle as a whole are bogged down: they are tied to slow, tedious keyboard entry followed by manual bug logging. This automation gap is Aberro’s entry point, letting us provide a much-needed productivity tool to the manual test community. 

Test Your GUI as You Build It
By implementing AberroTest early in the development process, you can head off usability issues before they become problems, or worse yet, defects found by your customers. From the moment your GUI is in place, you can use AberroTest to extract information from your application and generate thousands of data inputs and navigation paths. Using Adaptive Automated Testing™, AberroTest adapts to changes in your target application. Whether you add, modify, or delete elements, AberroTest adapts systematically.

AberroTest provides a rich library of over 70 built-in input providers (names, states, punctuation, random numbers, and so on) or link to your own test data to provide input to the target application. By creating small tests and using them early and often, you can correct your own errors and avoid breaking the build.

Design Testable Applications
We all know the importance of unit testing and thoroughly testing code. However, testing your code shouldn’t take more time than it took to write it. And with AberroTest, testing is easier. Because testing is implemented early in development, the better your final product will be. Why? Well, bugs found early in the development process are cheaper to fix. But by using AberroTest early and often, you develop software applications that have testable designs and that lend themselves well to future testing. Robust, well-designed, and well-tested applications are better for software teams and customers alike.

Test Deeply within Your Applications
Test more deeply within your application than you ever hoped possible. Using AberroTest’s verification rules, you can verify application functionality using if-then logic. Even better, AberroTest’s rules are extensible, enabling a skilled developer to create customized rules with nested capability.