Designing for Development

Your Photoshop layout might look good to the client, but is it designed and organized with the next phase of production in mind? Are your layers properly ordered and labeled to assist the developer with producing the WordPress theme efficiently and with as little drama as possible? And are you using visual effects that can be achieved with CSS3, or will you burden the final design with DIV soup and multiple images just because you didn’t run it by your dev team and got approval from the client? Learn how to design a layout with the development phase in mind by understanding theme structure! No need to learn how to code a theme, just how the coder will go about slicing your work. This talk will offer workflow tips, offer a few examples of well-organized PSDs, and even show some live theme code.