I’m going to be designing a couple wordpress websites and I was wondering whats a great theme or framework to start from? I want to design the sites based on the semantic.gs grid system.
Is this a good starting point?
Are there better ways to begin creating websites with wordpress?
My method is to start from a working html page and then port it over a blank wp theme.
I think there are several “starter” themes, but I’ve been using the one that comes with the lynda wp theme tutorial. The starkers seems like a good choice, though I haven’t used it myself.
A child theme can be a good option if there is a parent theme that:
you already like the functionalit of but
might need to be updated at some point in the future.
Child themes are just a way of allowing the parent theme to update without losing the child theme’s changes on the parent.
If you start from a blank theme, though, I can’t see why you’d want to create a child theme-- you’re not going to update that theme, because there is nothing ther eto update…
I’d not recommend any framework.
Go with your own theme or use child theme for any good one, like for example twenty eleven.
y a child theme over a framework?
I prefer thesis or genesis, both can be easily customized also 
I’ll go for thesis too… just like what FedEx is recommending…