Optimizing and tuning of wordpress blog

Customizing, tuning and optimizing of a wordpress blogg - Develop new page templates based on existing theme (Need a specific pagetype with a linklist in the right colum for listing webanalytics software, bookrevies and so on. Will? also need adjustements of the othe page templates) The theme used are blogtxt (<[login to view URL]>) - Optimize code for faster loading (Suggest what could be hardcoded and how: f.ex. Title of blog) - Optimize code for SEO-purposes (Reduce ammount of code needed and promote content in each html page) The blog in question is? <[login to view URL]>? so you could have a look at the potential for improvement.