For WordPress I used the Sandbox theme as a base. Sandbox is a minimal theme that has some great functionality. The foundation is solid and the design process is easy and clean. Basically all you need to do is style the site with CSS. For my design I needed to dig a bit deeper. I was not familiar with WordPress at all. I needed to find out what each class and id did. I also needed to find how the theme files were built and what WordPress function was called where.
In the end the learning curve was small. I was able to mold the site files and CSS to match what I wanted.
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