I am a WordPress Theme Designer and I do it this way..

I design using Photoshop.. after the design, I then proceed to coding my psd (photoshop file) to xhtml/css.
Then simply convert xhtml/css to WordPress.

ChiQ

Hi, I’ve made my own theme on WordPress:

I’ll try to make it as simple as possible… if you have any questions i’d be happy to help.

you have a few basic files that you need:
1- your stylesheet.css
2- your index.php
3- your home.php
4- your page.php
5- your 404.php

Create your basic design in the index and then you can pretty much just copy and paste the same design again and again making small alterations.

1. this will be unique (I’m guessing you know something about css and xhtml?)

2. So in your index (if you write a post it will show here) include this where you want your post to show:

theres a tutorial here: