I am wondering if anyone here has some experience with creating WordPress templates? I would like to model my website off of the federalist's top banner: http://thefederalist.com/
I am not really sure where to start though. The thing needs to include many kinds of positioned links and the text should be "cut out" of the color block. While making links is not so hard, positioning everything correctly, "cutting out" the text from the block and putting the little circles in for various social networking bits all seems difficult. Any help or advice would be appreciated