Magento theme design

I haven’t posted any designs in the last two days, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been doing noth­ing! I plan on adding another ser­vice to my offer­ing soon, that is Magento theme design.
The rea­son: I feel that although I enjoy very much work­ing with Word­Press as a CMS, I don’t want to put all my eggs in one bas­ket, and it will allow me to reach more poten­tial cus­tomers.
I spent all day yes­ter­day read­ing up on Magento’s theme design process, and the least I can say is that it’s a steep learn­ing curve!
What’s more, the doc­u­men­ta­tion is not very easy to read, nor is it com­plete.
I also read the book Magento 1.3 theme design, but I have the same gripes as with other books by this pub­lisher, they are not easy to fol­low, the exam­ples don’t always work, so I’m still not sat­is­fied.
Then I stum­bled upon this screen­cast series which is very recent, only two episodes have been pub­lished, but it looks promis­ing and I can’t wait for the next episodes.

Here is another resource : http://www.designdisclosure.com/2009/07/how-to-magento-ecommerce-tutorials/