This is great tutorial on making interesting looking date badge for the posts.It involves a lot of CSS with a image that will be used for sprites.
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Jan 10
How To Include CSS and JavaScript Conditionally And Only When Needed
Excellent tutorial on loading CSS and JavaScript and using WordPress queue functions for this.
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Jan 10
How to make a child theme for WordPress, for beginners
Very interesting post about little known feature of WordPress, child themes. How to extend any theme and replace styles only, leaving the templates unchanged. Post has many interesting resources that can be useful for theme development.
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Nov 09
How to Create a Minimalist and Typographic Blog Layout
This is a great tutorial on creating a simple and clean WordPress theme. In the end you will get the theme for download, and preview how it looks like.
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Jan 10
Using Post Thumbnail In WordPress 2.9
This is a list of 3 best tutorials on using new post thumbnail feature added in WordPress 2.9. Tutorials are basically the same, but each one offers something new, and they have many comments that can be interesting to read and explore.