Installing and Customising your Wordpress themeThis video shows you how to install your wordpress theme and customise it. It runs through typical customisation options for four different themes: Busy Bee and Canvas from Woothemes, Genesis/Agency from StudioPress and Thesis from DIY Themes.
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Logo Design
If you don’t already have a logo for your business, I recommend using Elance.
For those who haven’t used Elance before, it’s an online marketplace for technical and design resources. You can post jobs and get quotes, or contact providers directly. The best part is that you can see the provider’s feedback from previous work they’ve done plus look at their portfolio of logo or other designs to judge for yourself in advance whether they’ll be able to do a good job for you.
A decent logo design will cost somewhere in the region of $100.
Theme Installation and Customisation
My belief is that the lessons in this course, together with some trial and error experimentation will give you all you need to produce a high quality website using WordPress.
However, if you’re struggling with some of the configuration, or want something extra special, then you can outsource the work. Since you’re starting from a solid base of wordpress and a theme, it’s much cheaper than getting a website done from scratch.
You have two primary choices.
You can again use Elance.
Or alternatively, you can use a resource recommended by the theme developers. You’ll need to buy one of their themes first, obviously, before getting someone to tweak it for you.
In both cases you’ll be able to hire someone to do more advanced customisation than is possible using the dashboards that I’m showing you in the videos.
Woothemes maintain a list of recommended “Woo Workers” here.
DIY Themes have a section in their support forum for classified ads for Thesis theme customisation here (youll need to have bought the theme and be a member to see the forum).
Similarly, Studiopress has a list of approved customisers/designer on its support forum here.
Using resources recommended by the theme developers is going to be more costly than going via Elance (typical rates for theme development/customisation are $100 per hour for the recommended resources vs around $25 per hour for Elance). But since they’re endorsed by the theme developers you can be pretty sure they’ve got the skills and the support needed.