// Theming Tumblr//

Great tips.

matthewb:

Over the past couple of weeks I created a custom theme for Tumblr, which you can see here if you’re reading this post via the Tumblr Dashboard or RSS.

The process was largely fun and easy. After many CMS integrations with multiple user-facing templates, it’s refreshing to work with Tumblr’s single-page approach. The Tumblr engine derives every page on a user’s tumblelog from a single XHTML and CSS template, vastly reducing not only the amount of work required to generate a custom theme, but also the quantity of repeated code (in particular compared to a default WordPress installation).

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