If you are starting your Wordpress voyage and would like to know how to design/code your templates and work with dynamic sidebars, widgets, plugins, etc. you might get confused or overwhelmed by the volume of information out there. My road to Wordpress knowledge wasn’t too bumpy but like anything related to web technology it’s a never-ending road as new versions get released regularly and with each major release there are new things to learn, new widgets/plugins to install and implement. To make the lives of other designers a little easier I put together a little collection of resources:

Templating

• Codex (of course!!!)
• Aneko Studios
• Web Savvy Mama

Dynamic content

• Dynamic sidebar
• Drop down menus
• Multiple sidebars

General information

• The WP Project
• Understanding the loop
• Understanding permalinks

Templating for Wordpress is so much more satisfying compared to templating for Joomla. It still bugs me that even with the best designed template and most xhtml and css compliant validated/compliant code you still depend on components spilling out the proper code for the site to validate properly. Unfortunately many important components for Joomla still use outdated code (read tables). On Wordpress all you need to do is to create and validate your design/code and then slice it properly and voilá…you have a beautiful standards compliant template and the whole site validates. I just love it