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Blog design solutions : by Andy Budd, Richard Rutter, John Oxton, David Powers.

Whilst not exclusively wordpress it has a good section and also covers most popular platforms in a nice way along with general blog design concepts.

Design solutions gives me the idea that this is more of an aesthetic overview, rather than actually making a theme live by coding it, yeah?

word on the street is that book is no good. I don't have it, though, so I can't point you in the right direction.

Good luck.

If you can't ever find a book, a great tutorial that I found when starting out with WP is here: Tutorial: How to Integrate Wordpress into an Existing Website. The method works whether you're integrating a WP install into an existing website, or the WP install IS the website, either way.

"Blog design Solutions"

I bought that book last fall, not sure why I bought it. There is one chapter on wordpress, it explains " the loop", it gives a css- html examples, explains template tags other tags bases everything on Kubrick or K2, and wordpress 1.5.

If you are just looking for a clue - which is what I was looking for - it is ok but the majority of the books is other platforms and how to set oP a testing environment on your computer, ETC ETC.

If I really planned to design wordpress themes this is not the book I would get.

you need to know css first to create wp themes.

in my opinion.. and how I learned it.. just open default theme in wordpress.. dont touch php codes just play with <div> tags and content within it

play with these files

index.php
header.php
footer.php
sidebar.php
style.css

thats it.. always keep backup of them so when you did some mistake you can restore it

you can start like

there is a code

<div id="header"></div> means you can understand that this code something related to header.. check css file.. you will see #header style there.. just chane image.. change style

trial and error method.. this will be best...in my opinion..

if you need more help to learn you can contact me any time :)

Well, I already have a fairly good knowledge of CSS, I just wasn't sure whether the files you mentioned differ depending on the layout, fluid, 2 columns etc that is why I was going to start from scratch.

yes you can play with them.. if you want three columans you can create another sidebar file... sidebar is the second small column file...

index is the frontpage file.. single.php is full article page file.. page.php is the a seprate individual page file ...

just play with them and you will understand..

i think you should start with index.php.. css and header and footer files.. just try to put your own content and try to change images..

trust me this way you will learn fast and you will remember for that ever... this is how i learned it!!

Thank you very much :)