I’ve started building a custom theme on top of  WordPress – to a print designers spec. Whilst the visual aspect does indeed look like it’s been penned by a print designer, the actual implementation of the static xhtml/css framework I built of the design, has thus far been incredibly easy to put on top of WordPress.

Far easier than I would have imagined in fact.

There’s a few really good resources out there for this kind of thing.

Web based;
Installing WordPress Locally
Building a Custom WordPress Theme
Moving and Exporting WordPress

Ebook;
Rockstar WordPress Designer

This covers most of the bases for starters, what I’m looking at now is how to easily create a dynamic (multi-level) navigation system…