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Creating a new theme
The process for creating a new theme is as difficult as you want it to be. If this is your first attempt, it will be well worth experimenting by using an existing theme, like the WordPress Default theme: make small changes to the style.css document in your template folder to get comfortable with using CSS.
There are many useful guides on using CSS. W3Schools is a good starting point if CSS is a new concept to you: it explains why we use CSS as well as giving you a solid introduction in using it. mezzoblue has a good list of troubleshooting solutions to problems with your stylesheets.
If you want to start a theme from scratch, then examining different themes and how they work would be a good starting point. Look through the WordPress Default theme included with the installation and try to work out how it works. You will notice there are a lot of PHP functions, of which many are inbuilt within the WordPress framework. As a rule, when in doubt, search for anything you are stuck with on the WordPress Codex: most (if not all) functions you come across will be thoughtfully described.
CodeScheme offers a step-by-step tutorial in making your themes.
