How I Learned To Build Wordpress Themes
Posted in Other by Design Reviver on the 11-10-2008Picture your finished custom wordpress theme live on your server, completely unique and fresh. By the time you have finished reading the resources in this post that scenario will be a reality. People love custom themes, they make a blog come to life with a personality of its own. It’s no secret that they’ll reward it you for it through links, subscriptions and bookmarks.
Theme Design Lessons
How To Create A Wordpress Theme From Scratch
Good walk through in detail on creation of themes.
The 5 Minute Theme
Fast way of making simple a simple wp theme.
Turn Any Web Template Into a Theme
This flash tutorial shows how to turn any web page into a wordpress theme. The flash movie is pretty distorted but gives a good idea of what can be achieved.
Mocking Up a Theme In Photoshop
A bit of self promotion! This tutorial shows how to mock up a modern theme in photoshop.
16 Lessons On Theme Creation
Covers all bases in detail, really comprehensive lessons on all aspects of Wordpress theme creation from header to footer!
4 Step Theme Design Guide
Part 1 - Pulling it apart; Part 2 - Complete design, header, and footer; Part 3 - The sidebar; Part 4 - The content.
Basic Intoduction To Themes
Good post breaking down how the themes work for those new to Wordpress.
Offical Wordpress Documentation
The Wordpress.org Codex with theme design documentation.
Wordpress Templates For Redesign
Premium Theme Design with Thesis
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Create Flexible Themes
Free to use selection of Wordpress themes, good for customization.
100 Free Templates
Helpful Software and Cheats
Theme Editor For Dreamweaver
Now when you open a wordpress theme in Dreamweaver the whole thing is visable - legend.
Inspiration
We Love WP!
Showcase of Wordpress powered websites.
Ready Made Swatches
Great selection of swatch and color scheme ready to choose from.
CSS Galleries
Go to the bottom of this post for links to lots of CSS galleries for design inspiration.
Freebies
Free Stock Images
381k free images, an awesome free collection.
Creative Commons Images at Flickr
50 million plus creative commons images for use, make sure to check the iicences for usage permissions.
Basic Theme Creator
Basic online theme design tool, change the element color in real time then save your theme.
More Theme Resouces
40 more resource links for Wordpress theme design.
Free Social Icons
Free social icons to use on your blog.
Validation and Testing
w3c Validation Service
Well know and classic, but worth a mention.
Cross Browser Checking
View screenshots of your finished theme in all the browsers.
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