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Starting point for a new blog (6 posts)

  1. vimto
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Hi,

    I'm building a Wordpress blog that needs to integrate (look & feel) with unicef.co.nz. It should share elements of the style, and probably the same header. What theme would you recommend as a starting point?

    I've had a look around, and there a lot to choose from! I've been recommended thematic, which seems comprehensive, but maybe a something simpler would be a better fit?

    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Vim

  2. esmi
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    You could always look into building a custom theme.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

  3. mercime
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Basically, you are looking for a 3-column WordPress theme which you could customize via CSS and images to look like the unicef site. There are free themes where you can start off with. There's prelovac's amazing grace theme or 3 column blue theme, and others here -

  4. mercime
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Btw, there are some online tutorials you could check out to convert unicef's HTML to WordPress theme which would be a better option.

  5. vimto
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out.

    @mercime - why would converting unicef's HTML to a Wordpress theme be a better option? Do you think this would be a much bigger task than customizing an existing theme?

    Thanks again,
    Vim

  6. mercime
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Hi vinto - I don't mean to make your task any more difficult than it could be :-) My suggestion is based on experience of integrating WordPress blogs into existing sites, I found it easier in the long run to invest time in transposing/converting HTML and CSS of "mother site" to a WordPress theme. I import the style sheets of the main site to the WP theme's style.css. That way, any update to look and feel of main site automatically updates all in the WordPress install. That's just me :-)
    Good luck in whatever you decide.

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