Via Adam Trachtenburg's site today, there's part two of a series over on Performancing.com about customizing Wordpress.

As promised in Part One of How To Customize WordPress, this time I thought I would attempt to see how simple it can be to tweak an existing WordPress template using some CSS.

A lot of the more frequently used existing blog templates have only a 2 Column design, and are quite narrow at that so trying to get some whitespace and an extra column into one of them is the challenge I set myself.

She talks about some tools she's using to make the changes (all cross-platform) and dives right in, using the WebDev Toolbar to locate items and their IDs to make updating them easy. From there's it's all CSS and HTML updates in the rest of this lengthy tutorial...