If you are looking for a way to generate more traffic and inbound links for your blog, and you have some web design talent, one of the best things you can do is contribute a few free WordPress themes to the WordPress community.
In order to focus on making your theme unique, I recommend starting out with a blank theme template. Jonathan Wold has created an excellent tutorial called How to Create Your Own WordPress Theme, in which he walks you through the basic setup of a generic WordPress theme. From there, you are then on your own to express your creativity and add some plugin integration for potential users of the theme.
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is the founder and primary author of WordPress Hacks. You can learn more about him at KyleEslick.com or you can follow his personal tweets here.
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Nice share.thanks 
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No Way! That sounds like a great membership! It is definately a nice opportunity. 
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Nice links! Here is a great cheatsheet for those playing with WordPress themes.
K – Thanks for the link, although check out this article written yesterday.
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Oops, shouldn’t have jumped the gun when I saw that post!
this sound good, thanks