Building with WordPress: from Sketch to Website in 5 Hours

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8 August 2008 · 0

Very interesting:

It took me five hours to go from sketching the site on paper, protoyping the design in HTML, and setting up WordPress with the custom theme.

You can grab the development files there for free, or check the result live.

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