I'm planning to revamp my dead blog soon and break out of the generic Wordpress template. It's going to be a major overhaul so i expect to install some plug-ins and a little programming. Thus i'm kind of in a blur right now, don't know where to start.

Of course you don't need to limit your experience to only wordpress. If you use other blog applications or hosted blogs (blogspot, livejournal, friendster blog...etc), share your knowledge as well for other people to learn. Thanks.

And please specify the type of blog you are skinning

hmmm, thanks for the replies..
I've decided to post my progress on my blog as I terraform it.
My blog is at:
Undressing the Internet

Hope that it'll help others pursuing the same goal.

This post has been edited by wantanseller: Nov 14 2005, 12:28 AM

header.php, footer.php and all the php files in the themes folder are templates.
this means that every page you see will be using a certain number of the template files.
e.g.

mainpage is probably using:
header.php, footer.php, index.php, sidebar.php (in sidebar.php it might include searchform.php, links.php and archive.php depending on how you code it)

just imagine wordpress layout phps as Lego pieces, you mix and match them. Isn't it better if they give you many different pieces seperately than all the Lego pieces glued together as 1 block? Each theme having their set of layout phps is because each one of them are customized to suit the theme. It's like Castle themed Legos have their own set of bricks and Spaceship themed Legos have their own set of bricks.

I'm not that familiar with Wordpress, but to my knowledge you can't just put all in a single document. And I advise against dropping and of them.

for more info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page


EDIT:
etsuko: yeah i guess

This post has been edited by wantanseller: Nov 17 2005, 09:56 AM