Five well designed WordPress websites from the gallery.

Making a premium Wordpress theme from scratch is an essential skill for designers to learn and will become increasingly important as Wordpress continues to become the web publishing tool of choice. In this two part tutorial will we cover how to make premium Wordpress themes happen.

Here are 5 WordPress sites that we really loved for the month of July 2008.

There are some marvelous WordPress themes out there but unfortunately not all the theme developers are getting it quite right.

Following are excerpts, notes, and links for my presentation at WordCamp Portland 2008 titled ‘Design & Debug Themes Using Free Tools. I create a lot of sites using WordPress as a content management system, and there are several free tools that I use daily that make designing and troubleshooting WordPress themes much easier.

I’m always looking for ways to speed up my development time when creating WordPress themes - whether it’s theme templates, Coda clips, or using both computers to make things go faster. Here are a few things I do to automate my WordPress workflow, from the initial PSD slicing to uploading the final product.

Sidebar is a very important part of your blog. Though, it can quickly look the same than in many other blogs. I’ve compiled 8 excellent resources to help you build a better sidebar for your Wordpress blog.

WordPress provides designers utmost control over a theme - resulting in unprecented flexibility in the layout and design direction he or she can take. WordPress - in the title - is inside parentheses because the designs you’ll see below are wonderful designs despite of the publishing platform they use (which just so happens to be WordPress).