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Just installed Wordpress on my server for the blog component of my site and came across graphpaperpress.com who make awesome themes for WP. I installed one and thought I could use a heavily modified version for the entire site. Then I started to look into WP frameworks: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/… What are your experiences with the main WP frameworks? Would you recommend any of them? I'm a designer NOT a developer and cannot write PHP. Is there a framework that I could work with just using CSS + HTML that would be flexible enough to make simple sites with?

Sorry it's not a question that has a definite answer, but thought there would be some well rounded advice here.

I'm more concerned about layout customization than having to fit what I need into a template. That's why I thought if I started to use a flexible framework for WP, it would serve as a good foundation to adapt to numerous layouts.

Thesis looks good, but is a premium theme (http://diythemes.com/)

Genesis is another (http://www.studiopress.com/them...

On the free end of things Thematic looks nice (http://themeshaper.com/thematic...

Thanks!

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The Thesis seems to be most popular with great options, I suggest you to go for it if you can pay otherwise Thematic is definitely the way to go :)

Sarfraz
Has anyone read http://digwp.com/book/ ?Would you recommend it?
JayOh
@JayOh: Yes that is a great read, the author of CSS-Tricks.com Chris Choyier with other author have done a great job of producing such nice book on WordPress.
Sarfraz
Thanks Sarfraz - just bought it :)Only $27 for a 400 page PDF
JayOh