I am starting out in webdevelopment & wordpress, with prior basic knowledge in html, css, js. I want to create a custom theme, based on underscores + bootstrap. What kind of strategy can you recommend?
Option 1) Create all pages first with html/css/js and THEN integrate & convert them into theme & wordpress with php.
Option 2) Create everything simultaneously, coding directly in my theme folder with html/css/js and php.
Thanks in advance!
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Answer
Hopefully this will help you a little. Realize though, that I am a novice just getting into theme development as well.
That said, I would opt for option (1) in your question, for this reason: You have a step by step process that you can control and some of the best practices have changed from just a few years ago.
I found a tutorial that you may find useful and helpful that I followed and got a basic theme to work. Caveat: It seemed that while following the tutorial some of the examples did not work correctly however after viewing source code on the incuded examples at each step of the way I was able to complete the tutorial and emerge with a working example theme. I learned a lot.
You can find the tutorial at: MDBootstrap WordPress Theme Tutorial
There are others that I found in a google search however this was really helpful.
Cheers and good luck!