Sometimes I forget that what comes easy to me doesn’t necessarily come easy to you.
Sometimes I forget that because I know it I assume that you do to.
Sometimes I forget to share what I’ve learned…
So here goes –
In the last few months, I’ve taken a leap of faith or AKA “open BIG mouth”
I was working on designing this site. Playing around with design concepts and trying to figure out how to customize a theme.
You can get free themes when you’re designing a website (or WordPress site, or Blog), but sometimes you’re very limited in how you can customize them.
I hunted around for a bit and started to check out what others use. And that’s when I discovered the Thesis theme. It seems that it is quite popular among designers.
But that’s not really what I wanted to share.
What I wanted to share, is how you actually figure out what others are using on their sites.
You see, I was talking with my accountability buddy (we talk every day or almost every day) – and she was telling me that she was working on a graphic design for a website. She then said how she was modelling it off another site and wondered what theme they were using.
Easy peezy I said.
Here goes:
- Once you have loaded the website in your favourite internet browser, just right click any where in the screen and a pop-up menu should appear.
- Click on the View page source (depending on your browser the exact phrase might be slightly different)
- Wade through the eye-boggling code. (I didn’t say that it wouldn’t make your eyes gloss over 🙂
In there you will find things like the theme information and plugins that are used on the site.
Why re-invent the wheel, eh?
That’s my tip-n-trick for today. When you’re wondering just exactly how someone did something, just view page source.