A simple tutorial for creating themes

erm….simple is a good word. what you’re teaching in the tutorial is a little bit dodgy, methinks…using p class= instead of div class=…..and you never actually tell how to make a theme, you just give the skeleton of a theme…something more like this might have been better…

OK, thanks for the feedback. I used this theme for my own website (I wanted it as a news thing), and I tried using DIVs but they wouldn’t work for some reason :(.

they wouldn’t work? ah, one possible mistake you were making was matching a div class with a div id…

To be honest, for somebody that has never seen a WP theme – it is totally confusing.
Also, by using only one (1) template file and <p> tags for html formatting it goes against any other theme you can find out there – which makes it even more confusing.

I wouldn’t call it a tutorial for creating themes – it’s just a very summary guide for one specific situation: when you want to embed the blog into another page/file. But for that you can simply use The_Loop.

Yes, the document is simple, but anyone that likes Verdana is a friend of mine! Although, you may want to run a spellcheck on it, as there are a few typos.

In your tutorial it says:

“You can’t just reference to the style sheet by typing ‘style.css’, but you have to type the full URL.”

A better alternative would probably be to use “<? bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’)?>/style.css” in place of the full URL. It would ensure that the theme works in any context, not just one website with an absolute URL.