Wordpress Theme Creation

[kcrox]

So, we decided to go with WordPress for our church website, for the user-friendly CMS, among other things. Now, I've reached sort of a brick wall, as I know quite a bit of HTML, but when it comes to PHP, I'm just...stuck. I've designed the website to have a repeating background, which I guess isn't a big deal, and a centered logo, with navigation and everything else underneath(obviously). We have no desire/need for a sidebar, and want to make it look as much like a normal website as possible(we want to remove the blog aspects of WordPress and use it strictly for CMS).

So, as I seem to be a dummy when it comes to PHP, does anyone happen to have a relatively simple tutorial floating around for creating a WordPress theme from HTML?

[LaneLester]

Rather than building from scratch, you might do better with one of the "flexible" themes that don't require PHP or much HTML work. The Atahualpa theme has over 200 different settings that you can tweak, including turning sidebars on and off for particular types of pages.

There is a helpful forum to support users of this theme, and I've used it a number of times.

Anything this powerful takes some learning. After you look at the default layout, I recommend you import the "rounded" style, which I prefer for most of the sites I've built with this theme.

Lane

[sempei13]

Probably the biggest piece you need is the "wordpress loop". There are wordpress theme generators online that you could make a theme that mostly looks like what you need and tweak from there.

For more info, the Wordpress Codex has tons of info. Also Nettuts has a video podcast series called "WordPress for designers that really helped me. I'm a bit of a coder, so let me know if I can help. Phil also has some background in webdesign.

Paul

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

Check out a nifty little software called www.artisteer.com

[shortcircuitcg]

Check out psd2cssonline(dot)com it takes your Photoshop file and makes it a WordPress theme. I've used it on Drupal several times.

Chad

[streamkoinonia]

also try divine-project.com