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 [...]

I wrote a post last year on how to install WordPress locally on your hard drive. The benefit of this is that you can tamper with your theme and plugins until you are happy to go live. It is a huge benefit to your readers, since they won’t be distracted by changing presentations.
To help those [...]

WordPress is probably the most popular platform when it comes to blogsites worldwide. As it is an open source product, we can all use it for free including the myriads of plugins, themes and widgets that come with it.
But no amount of cool gadgets are going to help us if we can’t help to launch [...]

As a Wordpress blogger, I haven’t had to install WordPress from scratch on my host servers because my hosting company provides a Cpanel that does it in a breeze at the click of a button.
However, if you ever wanted to know how to install Wordpress from scratch, there is a detailed post over at BloggingTips, [...]

How do you move your entire WP blog to a new server?
For example, lets say you are sick and tired of hosting company A and want to move to hosting company B? Or if you want to get another type of account within the same company?
The easiest way is to ask your hosting provider to [...]

I guess most people, me included, couldn’t care less about backing up their Wordpress blog until something like this happens to them:

My friend’s host recently got hacked by Turkish hacker with a simple message:
“Fuck you America!! Fuck you Israel!! We will not stop until you have been stopped.
Now, my friend is neither American nor Israeli. [...]