Yesterday morning I awoke after having had a rather productive Saturday, to find myself extremely motivated to piece together the new WordPress project that I have been dreaming about for some time now. After studying a number a Premium Themes as well as sifting through an endless selection of articles, I now feel that I have every piece of the puzzle necessary to put together my new WordPress theme package. It will become quite obvious where my head was at over the weekend after you have a look at this weeks very short design notebook entry. This weeks notebook applies to a special sector, but there is some excellent reference material here for anyone interested in taking their WordPress design to the next level.

On Custom Admin Panels, Functions & Hooks

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action
http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Themes_for_Public_Release
WordPress Codex - Plugin APIs and Filters
http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus
Literal Barrage - A Theme Tip for WordPress Theme Authors

Just Looking For Inspiration

http://budurl.com/russ
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/50-beautiful-free-wordpress-themes/

Books
PHP5 and MySQL Bible