Looking to build a wordpress theme - where to start?
 

Artisteer? Do it by hand? What is new? What do you guys use?

ive been using Artisteer and its ok
i recently starting getting the yootheme licence and modifying them lots to choose from and a great plgugin

Thanks AllAboutCams, I may give the Artisteer free evaluation a try and see how I like it.

Build it with a text editor, old school

The single most important thing is to follow the best practices outlined in the WordPress Codex

Lots of code monkeys ignore that little bit of advice and end up making themes and plugins that break when you update the WP Core.

I'm tweaking a new theme I built based on the Twitter Bootstrap. It's fully responsive, looks great on my big panels and on my iPad and iPhone too

You might want to begin there for a quick jumpstart

Thanks! Will look into Bootstrap as well.

Artisteer is ok for me also.

Go to a site you like. Read the source. Then start looking into how the behind the scenes works.

I used to use Headway to build my wordpress sites.

Bootstrap is pretty impressive. Checking out headway now.

Wordpress as you can see has many updates. If your going to buy one, make sure the people you are buying from are going to be around to make the updates.

I would recommend testing your skills out on the default template.

Both very interesting