Creating your own Wordpress theme without much knowledge of html and none of php.

Announcing Trans Twenty Ten, a WordPress child of the default Twenty Ten theme. Twenty Ten has a lot of powerful features but I didn’t care for the look. I’ve added custom fonts (Tinos and Tex Gyre Heros and made the content background translucent so more of the custom background shows through along with some CSS3 goodies like shadows and rounded corners. It’s just enough to give Twenty Ten some polish and make the customizations more prominent. It works in Firefox,…

I’m one of those people who change my desktop background every few days. I’ve done the same thing since I got my first iPhone. In a fit of madness I’ve made some of my own. They’re sized for the iPhone 4 screens but look fine on older versions too. Just click to go to the full-size picture then drag to your desktop.

After 2 months, the “learning project” that wouldn’t end is off my todo list. I took the H5 blog theme which is coded in HTML5 and designed a minimalist blog theme with it. One of the things I wanted was a sidebar with columns so there are four widget areas in the theme. One in the footer, one that spans the whole sidebar and two that float underneath it and form two columns. During the design process I found this…