One of the questions asked at the WordPress meetup was how to create a WordPress theme. I couldn’t imagine that there weren’t tutorials online for this already, but we didn’t have web access, so I couldn’t check. But upon my arrival home, a brief search expedition led me to a curious find: The “Make a Theme” tutorials that are online seem to dissect the Default theme. That’s crazy.
If you begin the journey into for-hire web design with WordPress, one of the first conclusions you will come to is this mantra: “Kubrick sucks.” Let me spare you gentle novice theme developers the pain. Don’t do it. You will spend so much time being confused by Kubrick’s idiosyncracies that you will become discouraged from something that is fundamentally very simple.
Instead, we’re going to start with something much simpler, especially if you’re coming from the Blogger world, or one of the other blog/CMS systems that are abundant on the net these days: HTML.