Learn to customize your theme

November 20th, 2007

I designed the DIY Theme specifically to be easy to customize, and am working my way through a series of posts to help beginners learn to do that. The first post is up at my main site: The easy way to learn CSS and customize your blog theme. I hope it’s helpful! If you’re building a site you may still be looking for a web host. Here is a comparison of the best web hosting to help with the decision.

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58 Responses to “Learn to customize your theme”

  1. USC on December 4, 2007 5:42 am

    Thanks for this theme, I’m going to try it out on my new site. I always would spend hours customizing old themes, now it’s nice to have one with cutomability built in. Can you also customize how many columns (for example 2 instead of 3?) Thanks

  2. Edwins design on January 8, 2008 5:52 am

    Thank you for this theme, I will try it out very soon

  3. GMC TopKick Guy on January 18, 2008 12:52 pm

    Great Themes. I am going to try one on a new site I think it will be perfect. Will try and let you know.

  4. jeanette on January 21, 2008 11:46 am

    I would like to try your Bluebird Theme -t looks beautiful and the comments are positive. But I confess that I am a neophyte. After I download the Bluebird, do I just start edidting it, then upload it to my website? I am so sorry to trouble you and thanks for your response.

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  6. fikirzede on February 19, 2008 4:25 am

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  7. Oteller on February 22, 2008 8:04 am

    Thanks Randa good working.

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  9. Gary Ooi on March 12, 2008 7:50 am

    Thanks for the theme. I’m now on the way to create and edit my own Wordpress theme and launch my own personal blog. Wanna do away with Blogger. Wordpress rocks!

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  12. Sujay on May 3, 2008 5:54 pm

    Hey Randa….
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  16. Jeennee on June 6, 2008 1:45 pm

    Great theme and great tips! Thanks for posting this!

  17. Tina on June 27, 2008 12:48 pm

    Great guide! Thanks for posting!
    The theme looks pretty nice too!

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  32. Siddharth on August 2, 2008 11:08 pm

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  33. 2greedy on August 2, 2008 11:47 pm

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  34. Back Link Building Blog on August 6, 2008 6:30 pm

    Nice simple theme. I like the water drop on the banner. Definitely saving this for future use. Thanks!

  35. RoWeb Design on August 14, 2008 3:56 pm

    The theme is really nice; but thanks for the tutorial link.

  36. Mobisop on August 25, 2008 9:07 am

    i’ve spent months for learning to customize my own theme, but i really don’t understand the tutorials. haha. so difficult to understand the codes. But i have a plan to concentrate more in lesrning css. Css is important for designing blogs and websites.

  37. Rene Pamukkale on October 27, 2008 1:58 pm

    nice theme, bookmarked this one as i probably use it for my next WP blog..thanks again :) !

  38. Liz on November 9, 2008 2:00 am

    Hi there. Nice theme! I am using it on my “Homely Wife” website here:

    http://www.homelywife.com

    Many thanks!

  39. electronic projects on November 15, 2008 7:34 am

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  41. TechNald on November 19, 2008 10:37 am

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  42. Mike on November 20, 2008 5:20 pm

    This was very helpful, I appreciate all your hard work!

  43. Nick on November 21, 2008 1:04 pm

    I have just tested your Bluebird theme and it looks fantastic. I love the colours you have used. Excellent work, yet again!

  44. dalidas on December 15, 2008 1:09 pm

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  45. Robert from tweetboxlive on December 15, 2008 8:05 pm

    Have recently got severely into twitter and decided to get myself a hosting solution and go blogging too. The new wordpress 2.7 got installed in a breeze and then I found the perfect theme for my tweetboxlive idea, your beautifully simple yet elegant bluebird theme.
    Thank you and keep up the good work.
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  46. John Moore on January 16, 2009 4:12 pm

    Nice theme will try it out!

  47. Ryan on January 22, 2009 5:48 am

    The CSS article on the main site was very informative. I’d never heard of Firebug until I read it.

  48. Winner on February 8, 2009 1:07 pm

    А в чем смысл добавлять свой блог на ФидБёрнер? Траф это увеличит или еще что? (сорри: за оффтоп) :)

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  53. Buy to let mortgage on March 4, 2009 1:51 pm

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  54. Sell house for cash on March 5, 2009 5:23 am

    Great theme, i was trying to customize my blogs theme. You’r site is very helpful for me.

  55. abel on March 8, 2009 10:03 am

    Thanks for your theme and tutorial, very useful

  56. depo24 on March 8, 2009 10:05 am

    I will use your theme to my new blog, thanks for sharing

  57. Cellular Phones on March 8, 2009 2:00 pm

    where i can found the convert this theme to use on blogspot ? because i use blogspot and i like Bluebird Theme

  58. Randa Clay on March 8, 2009 3:34 pm

    Thanks for your interest, but I currently have no plans to turn this into a Blogger theme. :)

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