How do I markup this from scratch? WordPress noob asking

[grazdesigns]

Hello fellow WordPress geniuses. I recently decided to create a WordPress blog with the design provided below. I have created several blogs before but not as advanced as this one. So I’m wondering how I should start off creating such a blog. At the moment it’s just a .psd file. And I have tried to code it but it didn’t turn out so well …

Just to explain a little. The four boxes on the side are = Date, Comments, Read more (of this entry) and Categories showed with an image. Is there a way in wordpress to line up the metacontent the way I want it? if so how?

I was thinking of having a div that wraps the text, images and headings, while the other div wraps the metadata somehow. Thats how far I got.

Current site is http://grazdesigns.com/amilia

So the question in short is: How do I markup this from the start? I’m using Starkers naked theme at the moment and it’s totally empty of divs. Please help!

[img]http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7391/26069130329175560016296.jpg[/img]

[blue642]

it appears that you have it going pretty well, as for the date (the only part I see the isn’t quite on point) you could pass it the date format you need in your WordPress loop.

for instance, in you WordPress loop, when it calls the_time(), pass in the date format like this.

Code:

the_time(‘jS’)

j -Day of the month without leading zeros.
S-English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters (e.g. "th", "nd", "rd", etc.)

you can learn more about hat here, http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

then simply style it appropriately with css, by targeting .thetime ( I fire bugged your code to get the class name you were using.)

[grazdesigns]

Thanks for the reply. I however figured it out the ugly way. By taking a template that looked similiar to the one I was thinking and remade it to look like the draft/framework. Quite happy with the result and the meta info is no longer a problem and all the divs are alignned the way they should be. But I came pretty darn close into making my very own wordpress theme from absolute scratch ad I’m happy about that, however for now I need to learn some more about wordpress before taking the step of making a new theme from say Starkers nude theme.

Whoever is moderating this forum can file this into the [solved] ones if you wish.

Thanks for the time anyway.

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