Ready to get serious about your theme? You can make your own theme using a number of different sites when you are ready to try. If you can make a really nice theme and offer it for use by other people, the theme you design will have a copyright notice at the bottom attributing your site as the creator of the theme. When people use your theme this is a very effective way to get backlinks to your site and increase your traffic.

Wordpress Instructions
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

CSSEZ
http://www.cssez.com/
Author and edit the theme CSS with this tool. It allows you to create themes for WordPress or Movable Type. By simply working your way down the page, you can swiftly make a good CSS page. You can then download and install to your own domain.

WordPress Theme Generator
http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/
This is a neat novice tool that will show the basics. It is fun to use and learn about what things are called and where they go and how to change the look and feel of a theme. As a concept tool before you start reading the more advanced codex information so you can build your dream blog that does ‘exactly’ what you want, it’s excellent. Then you can download and install.

Templatr
http://templatr.cc/
A WordPress template creator to create and customize your personally designed WordPress template. A little harder than the others but you’ll work it out as you play around. Everything is done on the site itself and then you can download and install on your domain. You can upload your own images to include, change the colors and white space, layout, borders, header, footer, etc.

Cre8d Design
http://cre8d-design.com
Great blog on designing and adapting themes for your liking

Does anyone know about any other cool tools for theme generation?

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