I support web standards, which is why I chose WordPress as my CMS of choice. WordPress declares itself as a “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” It’s also written in PHP, which is my programming language of choice when it comes to designing web applications. Overall, after having set up this website, I have found that WordPress (tries) to be W3C compliant in terms of XHTML and common web practices, and is also not that hard to customize. In this post, I will detail the steps that I took in creating a custom theme for WordPress.
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