Great article http://blog.themeforest.net/wordpress/create-an-options-page-for-your-wordpress-theme/ on how to create an options page for your theme. Also explains how to use the options once they’ve been saved to the options table in your database.
**Note**
If wordpress blows up after you add this stuff to your functions.php file, DO NOT PANIC. It’s ok. Track the error by doing the following in your terminal.
[ ~/ ]$ cd /Applications/MAMP/logs/
[ /Applications/MAMP/logs]$ ls -l
apache_error_log
mysql_error_log
php_error.log
[ /Applications/MAMP/logs]$ tail -f php_error.log
[ /Applications/MAMP/logs]$ ls -l
apache_error_log
mysql_error_log
php_error.log
[ /Applications/MAMP/logs]$ tail -f php_error.log
This lets you tail your php error log to see what’s going on. You may have copied some non-php/html text directly from the tutorial on the web page, if so you’ll probably want to comment that out. Or maybe you didn’t close php or html tags somewhere.
