themes

Localizing WordPress Themes and Plugins | Inside WordPress | Urban Giraffe

A very helpful (and thoughtful) guide to localization. Recommend reading BEFORE messing with the theme (or you’ll have to go undo less-well-thought-out stuff like me!).

Sandbox · plaintxt.org

I have my own “base theme” but I’d like to download this one and look into the code.

For Theme Authors

A very helpful post for those of us who release (or want to release) themes. A good checklist when you’re ready to go.

Free XHTML/CSS Website Templates – Template World

I’d like to turn these into WordPress themes (yay Creative Commons licenses!).

10 professional looking WordPress themes

I don’t necessarily agree with all of the picks but I like very much the concept of gathering freely available designs for a specific audience.

10 Things You Must Do When Changing WordPress Themes : Instigator Blog

Trying out different WordPress themes? Here are 10 things you’ll want to think about during the process.

Attention WordPress Theme Designers: Designing Themes for WordPressMU

Designing theme for WordPressMU is really the same as a regular WordPress theme, but because of the end blogger’s inability to edit most of it, it’s really important that it be done right. I find the list of standard HTML tags useful, too.

Blogging Expertise – blog design, installation, and consulting

Good blog and resource for new bloggers. Some free stuff, too.

From XHTML/CSS to WordPress

A thorough tutorial for would-be template creators. I haven’t worked through it yet (no time; too busy creating templates!) but it seems like a very useful resource.

WordPress Theme Viewer

Awesome way to preview the various WordPress themes.