Have you tried this book?

[bestforsextoys]

Hello

I am looking to make my own magento template to go with my site but i dont wnat to wast money buying this if it is not what i think it is could you please tell me if you have used it or is it any good to make a good template for magento

please see this link

http://www.packtpub.com/magento-1-3-theme-design/book

Thanks
Austin

[FireFleur]

Packt are interesting, generally good info, but slender and large type.

It is not an O'Reilly, but it is ok. If I have the choice between an uptodate O'Reilly or a Packt, it is O'Reilly each time. So, Packt and Apress (which again have their own flavour) tend to try and choose stuff that O'Reilly doesn't have or is a bit dated.

I have been analysing this :)

So, yeah Packt are all right, you will learn something, it will be useful but you will feel they could have packed more in, but then maybe not, I do enjoy reading technical manuals and O'Reilly gives me the density I am after to really appreciate something, but others may want it a bit more breezy but still useful and that is Packt.

Yeah 188 pages, I like the 300+ ones.

[Simon-M]

Are you a designer? Why not just employ a designer that works with Magento and save yourself the trouble of learning the architecture and then the much more complex bit, how to design to sell.