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Thanks! They really are useful!

Adobe’s new Kuler tool is another great colour schemer resource.

The new FireBug is the most awesome tool for coding CSS for templated systems like WordPress,

http://www.getfirebug.com/

It is an essential tool for tweaking CSS and debugging JavaScript.

I’ve been doing a series of theme reviews looking for bugs in the wordpress.com installed themes.

My help page is a pretty good resource for some very common bugs people have in a lot of their themes.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/wordpress-theme-reviews/help

Hey there,

I found your article from the reference in Darren Rowse article and wanted to tell you that this information will definately be very useful for me in the future. I want to learn how to create custom wordpress themes. I have wanted to do this for some time now, and some how it always gets put to the side. I will be saving this article and reading it again when I have some time set aside to work on this. Thanks for the great info.

- Garry

Another great resource. I’ll definitely create my first custom theme this year. Thanks!

This is an awesome!

Thanks for summing it all up

Cheers!
Alpesh

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Open Design templates are also extremely useful. Sites like http://opendesigns.org/ http://openwebdesign.org/ http://andreasviklund.com/templates/ and http://www.freetemplatesproviders.com/ should definitely be on the list for both inspiration and standards-compliancy educational purposes…..

Very Resourceful post. Great!

what a reference

You could also work with open formats (png and svg) using free software as The Gimp and Inkscape. Instead of Adobe’s.

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thank you, appreciate the work you put into providing this information to the community. also, another handy graphic editor for windows users is paint.net, especially handy for creating simple lineart

Hi, thanks for the links! A great tool for extracting color schemes from pictures can be found here:

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

Greetings,
Ingo

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I really liked the Dreamweaver Plugin for creating wordpress templates. A lot of plugin buttons and standart function calls selected as buttons for easy navigation.
Usefull thing for creating WordPress Theme on existing design layout, which is already converted to html/css and images.

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The new beta FireBug is completely different from the older versions. One of the best things is that you can detach the inspector panel to a separate window; if you have 2 monitors move it to your second monitor and edit HTML/CSS on the fly.

Plus, if you open a new FireFox tab you don’t lose your changes (like WebDeveloper).

The other amazing feature is the layout box which shows you offsets, margin, padding measurements with a ruler. This is killer.

FireBug is absolutely essential for debugging JavaScript no more need for the alert(‘foo’); debugging.

Now if only something like this worked on IE….?

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Opera Developer Tools: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-developer-tools/

Includes Live CSS Editor and DOM console.

Great article!

thanks for the list

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hai, i am new to this blog. i have a Blogspot blog, http://digitol.blogspot.com. I would like to make a new, more graphical design, of my own. You said that Photoshop is useful. Where can I find some articles and tutorials on webdesign using Photoshop?

sorry, i messed up with the link-

its http://digitol.blogspot.com

Thanks,
Sumesh

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Great list. Also worthy of mention: I’m using aggrss, a plug-in to display RSS feed in a column. Available at http://www.soderlind.no/

It’s a great resource to supplement news content to a site.

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I just wanted to thank you for what you’ve provided here. It will be invaluable when I make the plunge to make my own themes and help to teach others to do the same.

I would also like to extend a HUGE thank you to Tim Bednar (in an above comment) for mentioning Firebug! This is the ultimate tool that EVERY web designer should be using. It’s also pretty handy for those people that are wanting to learn HTML and CSS. I don’t know how I lived without this extension!

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Thank you so much for sharing these great links. I’ve still finished some themes and must find time to step into the templates.

luv it – thanks a lot! Great links!