Here are some additional resources that can really help you out with finishing up your theme and to make it look professionally done.
If you do not have Adobe Photoshop and do not want to spend for one, I highly recommend that you get GIMP, which works like Photoshop and is free.
There are plenty of places [...]

We’ll mostly be editing the css today, and this is probably the most difficult (but also the most fun) part of creating a theme. Most themes around have the same layout, but what makes each of them different is the overall design; the use of colors, position of links, etc.
Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with [...]

Now it’s time to put in the WordPress codes into the new theme. This time, we will copy-paste from WordPress’s default Kubrick’s theme.
Main Index Template
In index.php, we need to remove all the leftover codes from what we’ve copied from the css library that we no longer need. Essentially, we only require the div tags, and [...]

I mentioned in the previous post that creating a theme can be as easy as copy and paste codes, and here is the reason why – the Dynamic Drive CSS Library. There are many other css libraries on the web, but this is the one I usually use, so I’m recommending it to you.
A css [...]

Creating your very own WordPress theme from scratch might sound daunting to most, but it’s actually not that hard. All you really need is to know a little basic HTML and WordPress coding. Even if you don’t, those are really easy to pick up. Knowing CSS is a huge plus.
What I’m going to do is [...]