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Designing and customizing a page - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress Essential Training
Designing and customizing a page
- [Instructor] Now that we know how to add a new page, we need to know how to make it look the way that we want. The amazing thing about WordPress is that you don't need to be a trained graphic designer, web designer, or web developer in order to make a beautiful page design. You just need a little vision, a little creativity, and a basic understanding of the block editor which is what we're going to discuss now. I highly recommend starting to design your page with something called a wire frame. They can be simple or complex. A wire frame is a visual outline of what will be included on the page and where those things will sit. You can use a pen and paper or a site like wireframe.cc which we'll look at in a moment to sketch out where you want those sections and what you want them to look like on a very basic level. I also recommend looking at other similar websites to yours to see what kind of content areas they include and how they're laid out. Keep these three basic concepts in mind…
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