dP's Joomla! on a Mac

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/installing-wordpress-locally/ – Is a wonderful tutorial for installing WordPress locally.  The site has a lot of resources on customizing your WordPress site.  I was very impressed with the site’s own theme.

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/building-custom-wordpress-theme/ –  Is a terrific tutorial on how to build your own templates for WordPress.  This tutorial takes a reverse engineering  approach.