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1. montaya
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I have a large html site I'm converting to WordPress. At the moment it is on my local server (sandbox) on my desktop. The site is http://www.moretonbay.biz
   The site is going contain many islands and I need to have a theme for moretonbay.biz homepage and a separate themes for each island.
   Is the way to go, to have all the islands as subdomains, in a menu on the homepage?
   So that for example, if you click on Russell Island you then go to a new set of pages with their own WordPress theme ?
   I know I can design different themes in Artisteer, but is it a WordPress issue whether I can log into moretonbay.biz admin area and there put separate themes for each island ?
   Can you help in this regard?
   Thanks,
   montaya

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   You can't have multiple themes being used on a single install. You can either adapt your CSS to apply different backgrounds, colors, layout etc. for different categories using the classes generated by the body_class() function. Or you could use multisite, so that each island is a separate blog.

3. montaya
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Thanks esmi.
   I looked what was involved in multisite and apart from being complex, I have several sites on the same hosting and will need to find another way. Is there much involved in adapting the CSS ? and are there any instructions ?
   Thanks,
   montaya

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Is there much involved in adapting the CSS ?

   That's directly dependant upon how different you want the various Pages to look. The greater the difference, the more the work. Changing colors us usually pretty straightforward but changing layouts sometimes means that you have to get into template editing too.

   are there any instructions

   Nothing specific, no. Every theme customisation is different.

5. montaya
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I've purchased Artisteer Home Edition and will be using that to design each theme, which will be completely different from one another. Can I load each theme separately somehow into my site ?

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   No - you can't.

7. montaya
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   bugger!!!
   I used a bit of coding to build the initial moreton bay site.
   Then used Joomla to build:
   http://www.russellislandwetlands.com.au
   http://www.russellislandbb.com.au
   and recently started:
   http://www.campertrailerseniors.net in wordpress
   so I think to Have multiple themes for http://www.moretonbay.biz I will need to relearn a bit of coding.
   Thanks for the help.

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