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Wordpress Start up help

  • Hi everyone,

    I'm new to the forums, and I'm also new to Wordpress. After some time working with Joomla, I stumbled on to CMS Made Simple, which in my opinion tears Joomla to shreds in usability.

    However, in the last few weeks I've been giving Wordpress some investigation and I am getting more and more impressed with it as a platform for a CMS driven multifunctional platform.

    Anyway, I'd like to build myself a Wordpress theme and really dig into it because I think the simplicity will really benefit my clients. But I'm having trouble getting a hold of a really good tutorial on what I'm doing to create a new theme. I've been poking around some random googled pages, but it's not been really substantial.

    Can anyone lead me on the right path to enlightenment?

    Thanks!
  • Good place to start is http://blog.themeforest.net/screencasts/new-wp-video-series-and-free-rockstar-book/. Also a lot of good stuff on http://net.tutsplus.com/
  • Great thanks so much. I'll start in on that - I also found some of Chris' tutorials, which are being quite helpful!
  • The tut that REALLY got me into making wordpress themes is at webdesignerwall:
    http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorial ... ess-theme/
  • This was the one that got me started, one of the oldest but still one of the best and, I think, still relevant http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/