Breakdown of the design process for a wordpress site please.

[CodeNoobster]

If I am not mistaken, the typical process of developing a website in a corporate environment is to receive a PSD with the basic look and feel of the site (approved by the client) and to develop a website using that design.

My question is, if I (as a Wordpress developer) receive this PSD and use a basic theme to customize, how would I go about doing this?

Would I make a child theme and alter the theme based on the design? or do companies generally create a Wordpress theme from scratch?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Yanisori]

If you're a beginner, I recommend finding a theme, which is very similar to which you received. There is the one them from default, which is simplest - if I rightly remember 'twentysixteen'.
I don't recommend to create a child theme - because of many reasons.

[CodeNoobster]

Thank you for your response. I have done some digging and found that child themes are not safe because an update to the parent theme can break your child themes functionality, or a theme can no longer be supported making your child theme obsolete.

With that taken into consideration, what would you recommend then apart from finding a theme similar to a design? building a theme from scratch?

[Yanisori]

I didn't mean creating a child theme. You can just directly editing the main theme. Building a theme from scratch is too difficult for the beginners