Simple overview question about theme customization

Hi, and welcome to the club!
You can basically do whatever you want with wordpress. You can check out my page – http://nuntaonline.ro – for an example. You know php so you can build anything you like. The header and the footer will be something required. But you can design those as you like. You can create custom php pages, with custom templates where all you need is just the header and the footer – the rest of the page is at your fingertips. You also need several plug-ins which for me are mandatory. There are a lot of things you need and can do, you just need to start.

I don’t know what I can help you with, just start asking point to point, and as my time will permit, I will help!

Regards!

Hi Gareth,

The best way to start developing a new theme is one of two things: First, you can create a child theme based on a theme template (like Thematic, Hybrid, Carrington, etc.) or, second, you can create from a scratch theme like Elliot Jay Stocks’ Starkers theme.

Personally, I’m partial to the latter option, as it gives me full control over my styling.

The reason I suggest you start from one of those is that I suspect that the reason you have space around your div is because you haven’t done a CSS Reset. The Starkers theme has one already in place in its CSS.

Try using that as a starting point and see how it goes.

Cheers.