Using images when displaying an archive listing in WordPress can be very powerful. It can increase the visual appeal of your archive pages and your site overall and it can help to illustrate what your site is all about.

Most guides for beginners focus on how to use WordPress, here we're focussing on how to get started when you want to customise WordPress. Right from the very beginning, including the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, to your first theme customisations.

Word of warning: this Session is not for the faint-hearted! Throughout the course of nearly fifty screencasts Adi Purdila will walk you through conception and completion of an entire WordPress blog theme. You'll start out in Photoshop, translate the design into an adaptive HTML and CSS build, then jump over to the next section (Adaptive Blog Theme: From HTML & CSS to WordPress) where you'll rig everything up with WordPress.

There's rarely a better way of learning web design than to watch over someone's shoulder for the duration of a complete project; this is your chance to do just that.

Considering the fact that Nettuts+ is dedicated to teaching web developers - of all skill levels - how to code, it occurred to me that, in over two years, we've never covered the absolute basics. This series is for those of you who have zero experience with web design. HTML, CSS, AJAX? What the heck are these acronyms? Step by step, I'll teach you exactly how to get started in this amazing, but difficult industry.

In this series of tutorials you'll learn exactly how to convert a warm, cheerful web design into a standards-compliant HTML and CSS website. If you're just beginning to step into the web design and development world, this is the perfect introduction!

In this video mini-series, we'll teach you exactly how to get up and running with Sass, which is a utility that can drastically reduce the time you spend working with your stylesheets. As they put it: "Sass makes CSS fun again!"