Wow! Truly an unexpected release! I woke up this morning and found a link linking to a blog post in Wordpress.org blog saying that WP2.8 Beta 1 is realeased. Unlike WP 2.7 release, there are no polls this time, but completely based on the suggestions made in forum, IRC and Trac. Seems like a great improvement, keep the good work up!

Recently when Jonathan and I designed this theme, I was in charge of porting it over to make it work on Wordpress. (Yes, that means Jonathan did everything else.. Kudos to him =P) It was not totally painful with the great amount of help i can get from Wordpress Codex and other websites, but I felt it would be more convenient to compile all of them together into a simple guide.

This tutorial is going to teach you how to port your [finished] website design to a WordPress theme. It sounds hard, but it is actually not. =) So, let us begin…

Please note that the finished work of this tutorial will not have WP 2.7(or up) features (nested comments, etc.)

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