WORDPRESS THEMES
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To muck around with Wordpress themes requires a bit of time and energy, and diligence in looking through the wikis of interest, and just pulling apart a few themes and going to town.

This is a useful site on Wordpress Templates

Basically every theme has a few important template files.? The main one is index.php.? There are others that can be created, to modify the different ‘blocks’ or ‘areas’ in a given wordpress page.? You can see why CSS is important, because each area is a ‘block’ that is identified through CSS.

Through the style sheet you can tell wordpress where to place each block, but also how to style it — text, graphics and so on.

The wiki above is a good place to start.? But the best way to learn it I think is to just pull apart other themes and test it out.

DYNAMIC TEXT REPLACEMENT
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What was interesting was discovering the sIFR technique for improving typography on the web. (Here is the author’s website on it)

Still need to read up on it, but I noticed iwith Alex Allied’s website … they use it there for the typography of headlines. So there’s sIFR, which uses a combination of CSS, Javascript and Flash.

But, there’s also something called Dynamic Text Replacement. Which uses CSS, Javascript and PHP. List Apart has something interesting about it; so does the author himself, with examples.