When starting out in WordPress and WordPress Theme Development to the complete beginner it can be quite intimidating when looking at the WordPress Codex.

After developing web sites in WordPress for the last year I thought this would be an ideal opportunity for me to share some of the pages I’ve found useful whilst building web sites using WordPress.

Below you can see a number of links to various areas of the codex.

General Info about WordPress Templates
http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates

General Info about WordPress Theme Development
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

Useful when you’re building themes and the page is displaying as you expect.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

Useful conditional functions built into the WordPress system
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

Useful for custom navigation on Theme builds
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories

Useful if you are wanting to set up custom sidebars that use the widgets functions.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar

All the WordPress functions with links to their explanation pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/

Nice list of most of the useful functions with examples of arguments (None WordPress Codex Site)
http://www.dbswebsite.com/design/wordpress-reference/V3/

That should be enough to get even the complete beginner started in building web sites from scratch within WordPress. If however you have any questions drop me a line and I’ll see if I can help you out.