Offline wordpress theme development - localhost map and virtualhostx

heres what worked today, and see older post for more links

to setup mamp etc
http://bitbob.com/mac-web-development-made-easy

how to install wordpress for localhost
note, I didnt use the 8888 mentioned, and just altered the settings slightly till they worked to bring up the mamp page for installing dbs
http://jayrobinson.org/2009/08/10/setting-up-your-mac-for-local-development-using-coda-wordpress-mamp/

Sidewinder theme - new sideways scroll theme from graphpaper press

new theme form graphpaper press

good for artist portfolio on the cheap.

also good because it incorportaes a blog template, apart from the gallery pages

and custom shortcodes, to make columns of text on content pages, so its really flexible...

i dont really like the thumbnails nav, id just make the scroll buttons bigger so people use them instead