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After some effort, I could manage to install my own Wordpress theme in my blog which you see now. Please let me know your comments on it. If you are interested of designing your own Wordpress theme, here’s a good news that I can tell you. I’m going to start a series of posts from today explaining very simply about how to design a Wordpress theme from the scratch. Before reading further, I recommend you to read the following post which I published few days ago. Click here to read that post.

To be honest, you must have a good knowledge in Photoshop, CSS and HTML, and a brief knowledge on PHP if you really want to design a Wordpress theme by yourself. The first thing you must do is drafting your design. Following are the main aspects that you must consider when drafting your design.

1. How many sidebars you want.
2. Does your theme need to have a fixed width (for screen resolution like 800X600 or 1024X768) or a floating width?
3. What colors you plan to use.
4. The heights and widths of the components of your theme. For an example, the header, footer, sidebar and any other custom component that you like to add.
5. In which places that your components should appear.
6. In which order that your components should appear.
7. Do you need to add widgets to your sidebar?
8. What are the pages that you require?

After considering the above mentioned factors, you must draw the template in a paper and clearly indicate every detail required to start the design. It must include all the widths and heights, colors, component placement etc. if your draft is complete and clear, your theme design will be easy and accurate. Remember the famous saying “A well begun is a half done”. I wish you all the very best in your Wordpress theme design first step. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. You can reach me through admin@best-internet-guide.com.

In the next post I will explain you about the theme design.