@slavelle: How much work and also knowledge is necessary, in order to create a new template, depends more on the used CMS. Typo 3 offers with "Templa Voila" a good mechanism to map parts of your template to the right content elements - graphically with a template editor and very flexible. Therefore I see no big problems with such a task.

@covoxer: Why should a developer reinvent the wheel? Modern CMS and blog systems offers so much functions, you have to reprogramme otherwise (including a WYSIWYG editor, tag clouds, permalinks, multiple (also nested) categories to articles, multiple authors with login mechanism, filters & search for blog articles, trackback and pingback mechanism, and a whole plugin architecture with hundreds of other modules). I mean, if you have so much free time on your hands, then feel free to do it, of course.

Remi