Converting a Design to WP theme

I started my own blog about SEO tips and Tricks and currently using just free WP themes and after getting the review done, it has been suggested that i should have a better theme, I do have little knowledge of Photoshop so can design a theme for myself but can any one tell me how do i go about converting it to a WP theme

 

Assuming you know programming, slicing images and what-not, you can grab a theme framework like Thematic and style it mostly w/ CSS (maybe a little customizing depending on your needs). You don't need to code a theme from the ground up.

Who is suggesting your theme could be better and what is there expertise? Doesn't look too bad to me. Then again, I'm not a designer...

 

You can hire a Wordpress coder here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103

 

What you can do is use a Free theme that fits your niche(there are many out there) and after 5-6 months, go for a customization theme but as for now your blog is new and once you get some visitors, you can think of getting a unique design.

 

First of all, i would like to support the people who suggested to have a better theme. I do believe that there's always a room for improvement. And there's a big difference (for me) in using a free theme from a custom theme.

And about your question, the first thing you need to do is make / provide yourself a web design (.PSD) but if it's already coded on HTML/CSS then everything will be easier. You just need to divide the html page to php files.

1.] header.php
2.] index.php
3.] sidebar.php (if there's sidebar)
4.] footer.php
5.] single.php (for posts)
6.] page.php (for pages)
7.] archive.php (for categories, archives)
8.] 404.php
9.] function.php

Of course what i said above are the core files (If I miss anything, please feel free to say it). But there are still more like search.php, comment.php and etc.

I strongly suggest that you google (html/css to wordpress theme tutorial) for more guides. Or you can use the default template of wordpress as your guide.

Hope this helps

 

thank you all will have a look at all the suggested options

 

If it's soemthing you're not going to do often I would outsource the work otherwise it's a large learning curve!

 

If you want to do it yourself what you can do is start from a wordpress framework and customize it into what you want.

Check out: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/27/wordpress-theme-development-frameworks/