A list of starter themes?

Don't make a table design. Don't even start there. You might want to try a few simple things on a local install. Just start from scratch and insert the php commands in the phptemplate. Then start building your css. By doing this, you will see what it takes and you learn how to build your own theme.

You can also take a standard css template (from oswd or openwebdesign) if you want a kickstart. But these and drupal startersthemes come with a lot of crap you don't want. Even the most simple ones.

I use the Framework theme. Its very good for beggining a new theme

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The first dev release of Genesis from head will be available soon, it takes 12 hours for an initial release to become available.

I'll add that I am the maintainer of Wabi, Twilight and Pixture and frankly I would like them removed from that sidebar block on the themes download page. All 3 have outstanding issues that I dont have time for right now, my co-maintainer is missing in action and the project ower has effectively handed off the projects to me.

Pixture Reloaded is a far better theme all round and solves many of the issue facing the original Pixture theme, including being 100% pure CSS. FWIW I built Genesis also, so there you go.

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... on comparison pages in general.

Perhaps this is a personality fault in myself (I've watched others jump in doing things while I try to figure out the best course of action), but I get frustrated trying different products/methods when all I need are opinions about which works best in situations. I find trialing software quite tedious, and when others have done it before I wonder if we couldn't eliminate the duplication of effort. Of course it's worse with commercial software, when I waste both time and money.