The first in a series of articles working through creating a babelog-style WordPress theme from scratch. It starts with a basic set of templates and a near empty stylesheet and this first article covers choosing a setting the background color and header image.
The best way to understand WordPress themes is to create one. And that’s exactly what we shall be doing over the next few articles: building from scratch a babelog-style theme. We shall be going in easy steps which require only a minimal knowledge of HTML and CSS, so anyone should be able to follow. So you can follow along, I have provided a zip with all the files you will need for this project.
Ultimate Tag Warrior is an extremely useful plugin for enhancing site usability, search engine appeal and a must for inclusion in directories such as Technorati. UTW offers a host of usage and format options which can be initially intimidating but it is actually simple to install and configure. Although checking out what the options can do may be a little time consuming, the good news is that you are not likely to break your site in the process.
