How to Create A Layout For Your Wordpress Site | Digital Marketing Institute

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so now let's talk a little bit about creating a layout of your site in terms of WordPress so like I mentioned in the previous video those are called themes on WordPress which is just basically the design so a wordpress theme is a set of code design files that create the overall look and feel of your site so there's tons of different themes based on what the purpose of your site is so these include a blog or newspaper site business and services so maybe if you run a marketing agency or a pet store you might use a business theme ecommerce so that means you're selling something on your site maybe clothing pet supplies knitting needles you know whatever you're selling on your site Beauty so you know maybe this is more of a blog but it's about beauty so you might have a layout that has more videos or more colorful tiles just things that are going to apply to your specific industry sports and travel is another one as well as fashion so as you look through to find the theme that's best for you you want to be sure to sort through you know purpose and then theme or look and feel of what you want so you can test the themes you can have multiple themes added to WordPress and you can test them to see what looks best and what's easiest to work with so I have a couple screenshots here on the screen the first one is customizing at the theme level so once you have a theme installed and it's active on your site you can only have one theme active at it at a time you can go into a preview mode within WordPress which then you can make changes in the theme settings and it'll show you what it looks like you can also do a preview mode when you're writing a page or a blog post on the site so the preview button is on the right-hand side of the edit screen in the blog post and then after you're doing this as you're creating the layouts and maybe a blog post you also want to test what the website is going to look for look like on mobile or on different devices so there's a lot of different tools you can use for free I mentioned this in the resources section but basically it's going to show you what a website looks like on an iPhone on a tablet on an Android phone and you want to test all of these to make sure that your website looks great across any device so in terms of choosing a theme and deciding you know what works best for you here are a few of my favorites I really like theme forests so you buy those one at a time and the prices for themes range I mean anything from 10 US dollars you know up to a hundred to two hundred US dollars it just depends on the design elegant themes it's a little bit different so you buy either an annual or lifetime pass and you get an access pass to all of their themes that they have available and you can download any of them as much as you want so that's something that would be good for a designer or if you don't know what themes you want or you're gonna be building multiple websites it might be good just to get a membership and then template monster is a lot like theme forest so it will let you buy themes as you go on demand