I have recently begun to redesign my own theme for my France Tales blog. I have gone through a couple of themes and have liked some parts of the themes and wished for other parts to be included in a WordPress theme. I have also been trying to get a job in web design and development here in France. PHP and/or Java seems to be a requirement so I thought I would begin to learn PHP by designing my own theme.

I started to learn PHP and to design my own WordPress theme by using this tutorial series at WPdesigner. It was very helpful to explain each of the PHP calls in the WordPress loop. I made a very simple theme that I may use to expand upon to make a fully featured theme.

Often I kept going back to the WordPress site to ask questions in the forums or for references. I rediscovered the WordPress Codex. There is a wealth of resources for all aspects of designing your own WordPress themes. I would recommend the above tutorial on WPdesigner to see if you really want to go through with it. Then if you decide you are going to commit to it, I’d recommend carefully going through the WordPress codex as it will cover in greater detail and accuracy all you need to know.

Do you know of any other great Design your own WordPress themes tutorials?