June 14th, 2009 | 
Author: One of the most common questions I get asked is how to build custom wordpress themes? A lot of people with some HTMl skills can throw together a half decent website quite easily but when it comes to constructing a wordpress theme it leaves them scratching their head in bewilderment.
At first site the whole wordpress blogging platform can seem like a black art and the knowing where to start to build a custom wordpress theme can seem quite impossible. Artisteer is a piece of software I recommend to people who want the freedom to build a theme but have little or no coding abilities and it does a mighty fine job. What about the HTML tinkerers out there though? What about the person who would like total control over building a new custom wordpress theme from scratch? Thankfully the answer lies with the most excellent but oddly titled – How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer..
This guide and series of tutorials can take you from absolute HTML newbie through to building your own custom wordpress themes by following simple step by step instructions.
It takes you through from learning some PHP and wordpress codex through theme design and into areas like creating basic WP plugins and advanced theme design. It is recommended that you already have dreamweaver and photoshop but it isn’t essential. If you use other coding and image manipulation software then the ideas can be quite easily ported to those software products.
From the first page of the guide through to the end and following the easy to follow tutorials you could have your own custom themes built very quickly and just the way you want them. No more scratching your head wondering how to increase the width of a sidebar or add an optin box, you will know how to do anything to your theme.
The best bit is that the How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer package is available for just $29 and trust me, it is worth 10 times that amount.
Hm.. I must change to wordpress after this