Create your own Wordpress themes.

Also having problems finding the right wordpress theme for your blog? There are thousands of free wordpress themes on the net. Searching for wordpress themes on google gives more then 10 million results. Still I can’t find a theme that I like, that’s why this blog still runs on the default wordpress theme.
I have a photo site that currently runs on static html. I never put much time in the design of the site, I regularly put up new photo galleries and that’s about it. I want to write some content for the site, and don’t want to spent a lot of time writing html. With a blog you can concentrate on the content and not have to worry to much about webdesign. So I have decided to make a wordpress theme myself. Nothing fancy, I already searched for some wordpress themes which I can use and modify to my liking. Why start from scratch if someone else has already done the hard work :) Sometime ago I made a simple wordpress theme for another site, I just modified the default wordpress theme to my liking. It is a simple 3 column theme, it took me about 3 hours to make. Not bad for the first time, I had never really looked into how wordpress really worked so it was all new to me. Actually modifying a wordpress theme is not that hard. You don’t need to be a skilled coder, basic knowledge of CSS and some html is enough. PHP skills will be needed if you want to make an advanced theme with a non standard layout.
Some of the resources I have used to make my own wordpress themes:
How to make your own wordpress theme.
How to create a wordpress theme.

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