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Comments were removed from the uncommented theme using  http://www.sobolsoft.com/extractbetween/  (costs)
CSS was styled using  http://www.blumentals.net/csstool/ (free)
A great HTML and CSS book is Elizabeth Castro's 'HTML, XHTML and CSS'
An excellent beginner's php book is 'PHP and MYSQL' by Larry Ullman
An excellent reference book for php is 'Beginning PHP 5 andf MySQL' by W.Jason Gilmore