How to develop a dynamic website using an HTML theme?

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For years I have purchased themes and “hacked away” at them (just modifying basic HTML) to give the developer a better idea of what I’m expecting.

But I’ve gotten the bug to peek behind the curtain and see how the magic happens.

Is there a specific course, book, video and/or etc you could suggest that would basically help me learn how to take an HTML theme, “meld” it into a CMS (or "framework?) and connect to a database to create a dynamic website?

Now I keep hearing about WP and if you were to tell me to use WP, I’d consider it…but I want to learn the nuts and bolts…I’d rather do the programming than using plugins.

Or is there no easy answer to this?

Thank you.

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It’s not easy as you think and you’d need to learn lots of things.

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You will have to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and database to start with developing a dynamic website. It is not easy to do it and it will take some time.

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You can start learning the PHP language and once you get the basics (and most importantly, if you will enjoy it), start learning about the WordPress development.

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Good morning and thank you for the responses.

Time, I have…lots of things, I’m willing to learn…it’s a matter of how to do so efficiently.

All of my various business ideas involve a dynamic website.

For the past few years I’ve hired various outfits to take a theme and develop the website using Laravel. But it didn’t always run smoothly and the simple fact-of-the-matter is, I don’t have the money to invest…so what are my options…try to do it myself at this point.

Though I have some HTML experience, that’s it…and it’s very limited. Thus I registered with Codecademy and starting with the basics…HTML, CSS, JavaScript then from there.

My goal is to take a theme, “meld” it with Laravel and tie it into a database (which I guess in this case, is required). Steep learning curve? Perhaps but it’s always good to exercise the “gray matter.”

Thanks again for the feedback.

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I am a WordPress developer, so I can’t really recommend anything else, but yeah, HTML, CSS and JS are the fundamentals you will certainly need before moving forward. As far as I understand, Laravel is a PHP Framework, so you will still need to learn some PHP. And if you know HTML, CSS and PHP you can jump straight into WordPress development.