I notice there are themes that have affiliate icons, newsletter sign up sections boxes, and all these different futures. How would I go by customizing a layout? Would I use widgets? If so i tryed but i get a fatal error saying Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error. Fatal error: Cannot redeclare register_sidebars() (previously declared in /home/xcvcx/public_html/wp-includes/widgets.php:13) in /home/xcvcx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/widgets/widgets.php on line 22 when i try to activate. Could someone point me to a link or links that would offer tutorials or themes? Thanks
The best tutorials I have found are: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page The WpDesigner tutorial will take you some time to do, but you'll be able to start one from scratch.
I don't use widgets - just a handful of plugins. If you're interested in using a custom written Theme, PM me and I'll give you a copy of a semantic WordPress Theme framework (that's also optimized out the wazoo for the search engines) that I've been working on.