After I downloaded the Thesis theme from BHW, I was very excited to use it on my blogs given how search engine optimized it is. But I also wanted to customize it, which is one of the beautiful things about this theme - you can customize the hell out of it without modifying the theme itself thus when it comes time to upgrade to the next version you can do so smoothly without having to re-customize the theme. Of course to do all of this customization, I needed to find some resources to guide me. And after having searched all over and having put together a nice big list for myself, what better to do than to share it with the community that has made my world from the moment that I joined it! 
One thing that I highly recommend you do first is install the Thesis OpenHooks plugin. That thing is the shit - allows you to do all sorts of customization without even having to modify the custom.css file. You can find it at wordpress.org with the rest of the plugins (you can find the link below, as well). You'll also definitely want to spend a chunk of time all over the thesishacker.com site -- the number of guides on there were too numerous to list individually, it's a great resource.
Unfortunately I'm still not allowed to post links, so you'll have to remove the xx's and replace them with tt's but I guess y'all are familiar with that drill.
I sure wish there was a save draft feature in the forums b/c I worked on this post for over 40 minutes yesterday only to have firefox crash on me - and lose everything (it takes so long b/c of having to extract the URLs, etc)!
Anyhow, without further ado, here are all of the Thesis Theme resources that I found -- if you find this post to be of help for you, please do give rep or thanks!
One thing that I highly recommend you do first is install the Thesis OpenHooks plugin. That thing is the shit - allows you to do all sorts of customization without even having to modify the custom.css file. You can find it at wordpress.org with the rest of the plugins (you can find the link below, as well). You'll also definitely want to spend a chunk of time all over the thesishacker.com site -- the number of guides on there were too numerous to list individually, it's a great resource.
Unfortunately I'm still not allowed to post links, so you'll have to remove the xx's and replace them with tt's but I guess y'all are familiar with that drill.
I sure wish there was a save draft feature in the forums b/c I worked on this post for over 40 minutes yesterday only to have firefox crash on me - and lose everything (it takes so long b/c of having to extract the URLs, etc)!
Anyhow, without further ado, here are all of the Thesis Theme resources that I found -- if you find this post to be of help for you, please do give rep or thanks!
- hxxp://rickbeckman.org/thesis-openhook/
- hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thesis-openhook/
- hxxp://w3.thesishacker.com/thesis-openhook-basics
- hxxp://diythemes.com/thesis/rtfm/hooks/
- hxxp://diythemes.com/thesis/rtfm/default-hook-usage/
- hxxp://diythemes.com/thesis/rtfm/customizing-with-hooks/
- hxxp://diythemes.com/thesis/rtfm/customizing-thesis-with-customcss/
- hxxp://w3.thesishacker.com/
- hxxp://w3.skinpress.com/category/wordpress/
- hxxp://gregrickaby.com/how-to-use-wordpress-conditional-tags-in-thesis.html
- hxxp://gregrickaby.com/get-featured-content-gallery-to-work-in-thesis.html
- hxxp://gregrickaby.com/thesis-hooks.html
- hxxp://gregrickaby.com/3-quick-tips-to-editing-thesis-customcss.html
- hxxp://mattflies.com/tech/thesis-skins-currently-available/
- hxxp://mattflies.com/tech/100-resources-for-thesis-wordpress-theme-users/
- hxxp://mattflies.com/tech/10-ways-to-customize-thesis-and-enhance-your-blog/
- hxxp://mattflies.com/tech/tabbed-widget-tutorial-for-thesis-wordpress-theme/
- hxxp://mattflies.com/tech/another-tabbed-widget-for-thesis-tutorial-better/
- hxxp://mattflies.com/tech/3-easy-and-highly-requested-thesis-theme-tutorial/
- hxxp://w3.howtomakemyblog.com/thesis/8-thesis-theme-design-tips-to-make-your-blog-better/
- hxxp://w3.bloghighlight.com/change-background-color-thesis-theme/
- hxxp://w3.sugarrae.com/thesis-hooks-dummies-tutorial/
- hxxp://w3.blogussion.com/blog/thesis/4-ways-customized-thesis-theme
- hxxp://w3.howtomakemyblog.com/thesis/how-to-get-magazine-style-wordpress-blog-with-thesis-theme-teasers/
- hxxp://w3.howtomakemyblog.com/thesis/8-thesis-theme-design-tips-to-make-your-blog-better/
- hxxp://w3.kristarella.com/2008/11/thesis-footers-101/
- hxxp://w3.bleikamp.com/2009/01/04/create-a-custom-search-box-with-thesis/
- hxxp://rickbeckman.org/widgetizing-thesis-multimedia-box/
- hxxp://w3.kristarella.com/2009/04/full-width-headers-in-thesis-15/
- hxxp://franklinbishop.net/thesis-tutorial-ads-in-sidebar
- hxxp://w3.tech-exclusive.com/2009/05/03/how-to-add-your-own-logo-in-thesis-them/
- hxxp://w3.edragonu.ro/simple-thesis-hooks-for-twitter-stumbleupon-digg-and-reddit/
- hxxp://w3.thesishacker.com/
- hxxp://w3.keenerliving.com/for-wordpress-bloggers-customize-thesis-theme-functions/
- hxxp://w3.seopscentre.com/wordpress/openhook-thesis-plugin-theme-customization-made-easy/
- hxxp://w3.doublemule.com/how-to-add-banner-image-thesis-theme-header-css-custom/
- hxxp://w3.bloghighlight.com/customizing-thesis-theme-404-error-page/
- hxxp://seekingff.com/thesis-skins/
- hxxp://thesisthemes.com/download-thesis-skins/
- hxxp://w3.francisraymond.com/2009/01/how-to-customize-the-thesis-wordpress-theme-header-hooks-and-social-media-icons/
- hxxp://w3.doublemule.com/add-custom-rotator-thesis-theme-multimedia-box/
- hxxp://w3.thewhyandthehow.com/integrating-facebook-connect-using-the-thesis-theme/
- hxxp://w3.wpbandit.com/2009/05/learn-how-to-customize-thesis-like-a-pro/
- hxxp://seozombie.com/seo-wordpress-themes/thesis-basics/
- hxxp://w3.emptycabinmedia.com/thesis-theme-add-another-menu/
- hxxp://w3.fouroclockproject.com/2009/things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-started-using-thesis/
- hxxp://w3.fouroclockproject.com/2009/beat-the-thesis-theme-learning-curve/
- hxxp://w3.logosforwebsites.com/2009/05/how-to-add-a-custom-background-image-to-your-thesis-wordpress-theme/
- hxxp://cash-bandit.com/2009/04/24/thesis-tutorial-creating-custom-categories/
- hxxp://thesisplayground.com/thesis-skins/looks-good-naked/
- hxxp://w3.slideshare.net/williamsba/advanced-thesis-techniques-and-tricks
- hxxp://w3.agentwp.com/2009/04/thesis-tricks-move-nav-bar-below-header_29.html
- hxxp://franklinbishop.net/thesis-tutorial-banner-ad-in-header/
- hxxp://w3.sugarrae.com/thesis-tutorial-advanced-ad-targeting/
- hxxp://w3.kristarella.com/2009/02/how-to-use-firebug-for-css/
- hxxp://w3.doublemule.com/how-to-add-youtube-video-movie-thesis-theme-multimedia-box/
- hxxp://w3.doublemule.com/how-to-add-twitter-follow-widget-thesis-theme/
- hxxp://w3.doublemule.com/thesis-tutorial-seo-for-everyone/
- hxxp://diyninjas.com/
