Free Pony Theory ~ Wordpress Theme/CSS tutorial (link dump)

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These tutorial pages are an attempt to help explain some more about the CSS that controls your WordPress weblog, and enable you to both see how CSS affects your page, and hopefully remove any worries you have about it.

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/graphicalcss/

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If you want to try customizing your own theme, then have a look at my WordPress Theme Dissection - a set of guides dissecting a WordPress theme and hopefully demonstrating how to begin customizing your own.

http://www.urbangiraffe.com/themes/

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CSS and Web Page Design List of Resources

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005...eb-page-design-list-of-resources/

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from netlex
http://www.netlexfrance.com/wordpress/?p=11

WordPress Theme : tutorials

Dissection of a WordPress Theme: Part 1 urbangiraffe.com
http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/

Dissection of a WordPress Theme: Part 2
http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/22/themeguide2/8/

How To Blog By Email With WordPress 1.2.x
http://wiki.wordpress.org/How%20To%20Blog%20By%20Email

moving from blogger to wordpress
http://justinsomnia.org/2005/03/moving-from-blogger-to-wordpress/

Anatomy of a WordPress Theme
http://boren.nu/archives/2004/11/10/anatomy-of-a-wordpress-theme/

Wordpress Customization for Newbies How To Blog
http://blogging.typepad.com/how_to_blog/2004/11/wordpress_custo.html

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Anatomy of theme (with bunch of tutorial download)
http://www.fahlstad.se/2005/10/12/anatomy-of-a-wp-theme-a-tutorial/

another one. (more concise, with code shown)
http://www.techwench.com/wp/entry/wordpress_15_theme_cheet_sheet/

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HOW TO: Customize Wordpress Part 1 (how to tweak existing theme. instead of buidling from scratch)
http://performancing.com/node/407
http://performancing.com/node/429

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What is CSS?

CSS is what we use to style the text and images within our pages. It's how we make text wrap around images, and how we make links change background color when you hover over them. CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets are responsible not only for how things look, but how they are positioned..

In this course, we'll be focusing mostly on simple styles, as that's in line with the target audience, but we will touch upon CSS positioning, and link to more in-depth resources.

http://performancing.com/courses/html

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CSS design

http://maxdesign.com.au/presentation/process/

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All CSS specification.

W3.org

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

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This is a very nice CSS wordpress tutorial/explanation

http://theundersigned.net/2006/05/from-xhtmlcss-to-wordpress/

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How to convert any web template into a WordPress theme

(mostly raw CSS stuff)

http://max.limpag.com/2006/09/01/...-template-into-a-wordpress-theme/

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Creating a WordPress theme from scratch is not hard. I’ll hold your hand through it.

Tutorials on this topic have been written before and the WordPress website also has guides for you to follow. But are those tutorials and guides really helpful to you when you don’t understand the lingo? Even I got lost while reading the WordPress guides.

http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02...t-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/

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Wordpress Tutorial: How to Create a Wordpress Theme

http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/