Your new theme is finished and live. You’ve squashed some remaining bugs. Maybe even added your favicon that was forgotten. Your blog is ready for the flood of traffic that is about to pour in, except for one thing. It’s time to optimize your WordPress theme so that visitors get a snappy load time when they visit, and so that your host doesn’t come to it’s knees if you get a flood of traffic from something like Digg or SlashDot. This post will show how I optimized this blog and reducing its size by over 1MB and shaving over 3 seconds from its load time, with a step-by-step guide with screenshots of what I did. Finish Reading »

I love posts that follow the author’s design process for things like logos, illustrations and website designs. I decided to do one describing my process for building my current WordPress theme called Monsta. This post will give an overview of each step I took in the process, with pictures, while trying not to go too in depth on any one section. Some larger topics, such as the character illustration process or some of my custom WordPress stuff, will eventually get their own posts. Here's the design to development process of the Monsta WordPress Theme:

• Brainstorm
• Sketching
• Wireframe/Design
• HTML
• Character Design
• WordPress

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