<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Customize your WordPress sites and blogs with ease! Now there's a</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">step-by-step WordPress theming guide for everyone from beginning</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">bloggers to experienced web designers, developers, and content</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">specialists.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Internationally-recognized WordPress experts Tris Hussey and Catherine</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Winters introduce essential</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">WordPress theming skills using HTML, PHP, and CSS, techniques that can</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">be applied to theme development for any CMS, including Drupal, Joomla,</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">and Blogger.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Tris and Catherine help you</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">use the power of the WordPress theming engine to take control of the</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">look, feel, and behavior of your website or blog. Each lesson builds</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">upon the previous one, teaching simple to state-of-the-art skills and</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">integrating them in three complete theming case studies: magazines,</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">portfolios and mobile environments. You'll review WordPress basics and</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">set up an efficient theme development environment; work with WordPress</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">features like custom headers and backgrounds; customize your theme's</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">headers and footers; and create and edit page templates and</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">stylesheets.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Tris and Catherine show how to enhance your themes with plugins and</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">widgets; use child themes; update older existing themes; leverage</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">advanced CSS techniques, custom taxonomies, and custom post types;</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">preview emerging trends in theme design; and share themes with</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">WordPress users around the world. Step-by-step instructions walk you</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">through the most common questions, issues, and tasks. Quizzes and</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">exercises build and test your knowledge, and "Did You Know?" tips</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">offer insider advice you can't find anywhere else. Tris and Catherine</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">also point out WordPress quirks and how to avoid theming pitfalls.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">By the time you're done, you'll be ready to build custom themes for</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">any WordPress site or blog, no matter how large or complex!</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>