Yes, now you can and do it easily. I had attempted to create my own wordpress theme previously, but I couldn’t do it successfully. Too many parts and complications and I am not an experienced designer. Worse, my PHP (which Wordpress is based on) skills suck to the core and beyond. So this led to all sort of problems and confusion when I attempted to create my theme. But now I have discovered a tutorial which makes designing your very own blog much easier than ever. You don’t need to go to different sources for information. You can read everything you need in order to create your theme on just one site!

You can view the tutorial here: How to write your own wordpress theme. After reading the simple tutorial and getting the basics of theme design, I feel much more confident to create my own theme rather than rip from others which I have been doing all along. This tutorial deals with the basics and allows you to quickly and easily figure out which parts and code goes where. And it is very well-written so you should be able to follow it with any major problems. However, this is for the beginner and doesn’t include any CSS tutorial (which actually is the main way you will style your wordpress blog). So, you will definitely need some CSS experience. I am still brushing up on my CSS coding skills but I should have at least a little of the basics on CSS.

I will start my next attempt to create my next theme soon. I hope that it will work out fine. I am looking at simple and minimalist kind of theme. Very likely with a few lite colours, very little graphics and simple borders and lines. I find that such themes are much more pleasing to the eye and they usually loads faster due to the lack of bandwidth intensive graphics. What do you think?