Blogs can be an inspiration to try many new things: not least, modern coding and table-free design. This site is intended to help you deal with these and other challenges facing today's commercial webmasters.
Even as commercial software, WordPress would be amazing. It is easy to install and easy to use. But you are almost certainly going to want your site to have its own look and when you take a look at a theme for the first time - especially if you are not overly familiar with PHP and CSS - what you see may make no sense at all. This article will try to demystify WordPress theme files and show you that they are not nearly as complex as they may first appear.
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.
“Olives” is a FREE WordPress theme, a 3-column, fluid design which will shrink and expand according to screen resolution. It is coded in validated, strict XHTML and has been tested in Explorer and Firefox. Suitable for many purposes, the header image (and indeed all the styling) is easily changed.
