I’ve been meaning to get around to making a wordpress theme from scratch for ages.. but I never seem to have the time and always just find one thats near enough so just bastardise that for my own blog

But one thing I did notice is that the documentation around wordpress isn’t brilliant and there is a serious lack of guides for creating your own themes

Today I stumbled upon this guide which I’ve had a read through and it’s brilliant

Goes right through from designing a layout, slicing it up and eventually coding the individual pages
If you are half decent at html/css you should be able to make a theme from scratch using this guide, big thumbs up from me to the original author!

Finally after what seems like an eternity of being jealous of Rick’s mac, I went out last week and bought myself a nice mac mini.

2.0ghz dual core with 2gb of ram

I’ve taken both my 320gb drives out my PC, reformatted them and put them in USB caddies on my mac

Only had it for a week, but god its nice..
Last night I was sat converting a few of my movie rips to MP4′s ready for itunes, chatting to a few mates on msn, watching a tv show in quicktime, doing a bit of work in photoshop and browsing around in coda, and it never skipped a beat

Compared to vista x64 ultimate which blue screened on average 6 times a day, I’m in heaven

I’ll stand by Rick’s comments here… if you use your computer professionally for either coding or graphic design, you NEED a mac!