Lately I have gotten a few requests for help on how I modified Cutline 1.1 and gave it a custom look on my own blog. I was asked to possibly create some type of tutorial that would help other users in modifying Cutline to give it a custom look. In my honest opinion I don’t think a tutorial is the best way to go about learning how to customize this wordpress theme. I think spending some time learning about CSS and that all that you can do with it will serve you far better down the road than just following some tutorial right now. Chris Pearson did a great job at making Cutline so easy to modify that if you have some knowledge of CSS and XHTML you can build a great custom blog to separate yourself from everyone else out in the blogosphere.
At this point I don’t consider myself to be anywhere close to a master of CSS, but I find myself learning new stuff about it all the time and one of the best resources that I have used is CSS Mastery by Andy Budd. I highly recommend this book if you want to learn CSS, as it gives a great foundation about all concepts that relate to using CSS in your design. I can say that it has helped me imensely in sharpening my CSS skills. Believe it or not I am even starting to get away from using tables to layout my designs and moving to use CSS for all my layouts on my sites. Now please don’t laugh at me for that last comment!
So do yourself a favor and go download Cutline 1.1 and get a copy of CSS Mastery. Spend some time playing around with the CSS in Cutline 1.1 and testing out different solutions on your blog, from my experience that is the best way to learn. If you do come across a question, stop by here and I will do my best to help you out.
