This was my first more or less serious attempt at creating a new theme for WordPress and it turned out to be a pretty trivial task, or at least as far as WordPress itself is concerned.  I love the fact that it doesn’t get in the way and there’s very little PHP required to create a brand new theme. I took out most of the typical blog stuff like linkrolls, calendar, pages, etc and just left what it is – just a blog.

For this design I tried to use some golden ratio here and there and it seems to do the trick. I found an awesome freeware tool by Markus Slewz which helped tremendously.

Overall this took about a day and a half, from design to launch, so a weekend well spent. And yes, I do love damask.