I have never made a wordpress theme before and a client I am working for wants a blog integrated into his site. He just wants basic blog functionality – it isn’t going to be used as a CMS.
I have the rest of the site coded up but I need to give him a time estimate for how long a wordpress theme would take (the quick route would be for me just to put ‘the loop’ into a static page, but he wants a few more features than that would provide).
Does anyone know roughly how long this takes? I just need a ballpark figure as I have no clue whatsoever! I realise that it ranges from project to project depending on complexity etc..
Thanks for the help!
From past experience, cutting a theme out of a design might take a day. Add another day for testing, and another for discovering quirks. Optional day is to rewrite some of the HTML as you discover it cumbersome or malfunction when interacting with plugins.
Thus a nice round number is a week, since it pads your time comfortably.