Custom Header and Footer
One of my goals is to make themes with personalized design. Currently, only the Photo Frame theme allows certain extent of customization by changing the image in the photo frame. In my latest theme (Simple Style), you’ll be able to customize the whole header and part of the footer. How to change the images for the Simple Style theme? Step 1 Create your own header and footer images with the size as follows: Header image size: 1280 x 400 px Footer image size: 400 x 160 px Step 2 Name the header and footer images as bg.jpg and bg_footer.jpg respectively. Step 3 Upload the file to the /images folder. To see how a theme using the same coding can look so differently, we have created a few samples. Sample 1 Original Header Image Original Footer Image Sample 2 Original Header Image Original Footer Image Header Look Footer Look Sample 3 Original Header Image Original Footer Image Actual Header Look Actual Footer Look Sample 4 Original Header Image Original Footer Image Actual Header Look Actual Footer Look Sample 5 Original Header Image Original Footer Image Actual Header Look Actual Footer...
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This is awesome! Thanks so much for the detailed walk through! The first time I saw this template I was scared to touch it because it looked so hard…yet I downloaded it anyway! Once I took the time to read it I realized how simple you had made it. The template looks great! Thanks for making such amazing ones! Phoenix from Moresims2tales.com The second thing I love about this theme is the customizable, rotating photo at the top. I’ve uploaded about five or six photos, and you should see a different one each time you load the blog. Hit your refresh button to see it change now. This feature makes the blog truly my own, a reflection of my family. Cindy…more story at Fencedinfamily.com/blog Einige haben sich über das letzte “unpersönliche” Theme beschwert, von daher nun etwas persönlicher… Ich benutze nun das WordPress Theme Photo-Frame, das oberste mittlere Bild kann man einfach ändern, bei jeder Aktualisierung der Webseite erscheint ein anderes Bild (natürlich nur wenn man viele Bilder hochgeladen hat). Ansonsten steht der Hintergrund auch als JPG zur Verfügung und kann geändert werden. Ich finde der Hintergrund passt zu dem Wetter – zur Jahreszeit und natürlich auch zu mir 😉 Dieses WordPress Theme ist Wiget – Fähig, daher ideal für meine Spielereien … und damit es persönlicher wird habe ich auch direkt meinen natürlichen Feind (die Blitze) mit eingebaut… mittig findet Ihr nun abwechselnd Bilder von mir – entweder als Motiv oder von mir geschossene Bilder… So – und nun darf gemeckert werden! Jens from Jens-stratmann.de This is probably the best theme in whole WordPress theme directory. Spent approximately 5 hours going through those themes and this was the only suitable one Thanks alot and hopefully I’ll see more of these extreme high quality themes from you someday OmegaZ from wp.dysentria.com OmegaZ, I would agree with that! I also spent a very good amount of time, looking at different themes. When I weighed out looks, with functionality, this was the winner, in my opinion. Mark from blog.hypercubecafe.com It took me just one evening to implement your template, create my site pages, and paste in my content. You are a very talented designer. Thanks so much. My site looks wonderful. Eve from Eveboston.com OMG! I have been looking and looking for a 3 column theme that’s different from all those boring themes that are out there. I had actually bookmarked your page with the RSS icons so I could feature it on my StumbleRumba.com blog. When I saw the word Themes at the top, I had to check it out. And I’m so glad I did. Going to put this one on a couple of other blogs I have too. Thank you so much! Will definitely be watching for more of your outstanding themes! Beamer from Earnbloggingmoney I LOVE your CoffeeDesk theme, and have customized it to reflect my own personality. See http://jahangiri.us/news/2010/07/05/customizing-blog-design/ for a detailed explanation of the changes, if you’re at all interested. Two complaints I get on this theme, though, I feel are worth passing along: First, the load time is comparatively slow (though the graphics are pretty small, so I’m not entirely sure why – seems there’s a .js file that’s slowing things down a bit); second, people hate the wide-narrow-narrow column arrangement. It fits the theme, but visitors might be happier if the planner appeared larger and the right side appeared to be cut off, so that the post area could be WIDER, and there would only be the one sidebar. (Does that make sense??) Anyway, I’m mostly willing to put up with those critics and their...
Read MoreBrowser Display Resolutions
Base on the statistics by W3school, more than 90% of the internet users are using a display resolution with 1024×768 pixels or more. If you study the trend, more and more users are switching from lower resolution to higher resolution display over the years. In 2000, only 4% of the users were using a display of more than 1024px. The overall users in this category kept increasing and it reached 57% as of January 2009. All my themes were designed base on 1024px and above. Some of the themes like Maple Leaf (preview) and Beach Holiday (preview) even show nice background when viewed with...
Read MoreWhat Emoticons can I use?
To use the following emoticons, you need to first enable it in the admin following the steps below: Settings -> Writing -> Formatting Tick this box: Convert emoticons like 🙂 and 😛 to graphics on display 😐 😐 ➡ ➡ 😈 😈 😯 😯 🙂 🙂 😕 😕 😎 😎 👿 👿 😀 😀 💡 💡 😳 😳 😛 😛 🙄 🙄 😉 😉 😥 😥 😮 😮 😆 😆 😡 😡 🙁 🙁 😎 😎 😯 😯 🙁 🙁 🙂 🙂 😕 😕 😀 😀 😛 😛 😮 😮 😡 😡 😐 😐 😉 😉 8) 8) 😯 😯 😮 😮 😡 😡 😐 😐 😉 😉 ❗ ❗ ❓ ❓ Author This article is originally written by Brian L. You are free to redistribute this article but please link back to this page with this title: What Emoticons can I...
Read MoreDifferent Uses of the ‘more’ tags
With the more tag, your posts will be splited. The excerpts will be displayed on the home and/or the archive page. The full article will be shown in the post itself. There are a few ways to use the more tag. Method #1 A link showing “more…” is placed at the bottom of the post where you insert this code in the HTML mode: <!--more--> Eg, one full article has 3 sentences as follows: Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself. I live in a wonderful city of Angels. To display only the first 2 sentences in the home or the archive page, you add this more tag in the HTML mode of the post: Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself. <!--more--> I live in a wonderful city of Angels. In the home or archive page, the post will be displayed like this: Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself. more… Note: The link “more…” is defined in this coding: the_content(“more…”); which can normally be found in index.php, search.php or archive.php Method #2 Instead of displaying more… at the bottom of the post, you can hide it by entering a space between ‘e’ and ‘-‘ <!--more --> Taking the same example as above, you add this more tag in the HTML mode as follows: Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself. <!--more --> I live in a wonderful city of Angels. In the home or archive page, the post will be displayed like this: Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself. Method #3 You can customize the more… link to anything you want to write. For example, you want to replace “more…” with “Click here to view the full story”. To do this, you add this more tag in the HTML mode as follows: Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself. <!--more Click here to view the full story --> I live in a wonderful city of Angels. In the home or archive page, the post will be displayed like this: Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself. Click here to view the full story Author This article is originally written by Brian L. You are free to redistribute this article but please link back to this page with this title: Different uses of the more...
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