Creating a Theme

Has anyone ever designed a wordpress theme? If so, I was wondering if it was common proctice to start coding completely from scratch, or use one of the defaults then modify it so that it is unique.

 

Have a look at:
http://cre8d-design.com/blog/2006/01/27/blog-design-101-creating-your-own-wordpress-theme/

 

Here is a good tutorial to make it easy: http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/

I've created quite a few Wordpress themes myself. Assuming you already have a working knowledge of CSS its not very difficult.

 

Thanks. Also, what is the contest site for themes?


Never mind. I found it. BTW, my theme is Lava, what do you think?

http://www.webhostreviewsite.com/blog/

 

You might want to check out the official page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development it's very useful imo.

 

Nice theme, might use it on one of my new blogs.