We’ve been given the opportunity by Packt Publishing to read a great book on creating and / or customizing professional Wordpress themes. The book is called Wordpress Theme Design - A complete guide to creating professional Wordpress Themes written by Tessa Blakeley Silver.

Tessa Blakeley Silver started out as a print designer and illustrator and evolved over the years into a web and multimedia developer, focusing on usability and interface design. Prior to establishing her own consulting and development company hyper3media (hyper-cube media) , she also worked as a VP of Interactive Technologies at eHigherEducation.

The focus of “Wordpress Theme Design” is to provide a comprehensive guide on how to create a professional Wordpress theme from the design process to search engine optimization (SEO) and after reading the book I can say it does more than that. It’s basically a compressed version of the Wordpress Codex .

The book has 207 pages and it’s organized in 9 chapters : Getting Started as a Wordpress Theme Designer, Theme Design and Approach, Coding it Up, Debugging and Validation, Your Theme in Action, Wordpress Reference, Dynamic Menus and Interactive Elements, AJAX / Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms, Design Tips for Working with Wordpress.