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31. galen3050
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    kantoi09,
    When I looked at the Modern Business template, I noticed that the general layout would work well with the theme I designed, so I just took the pieces that I wanted to add - specifically the front page slider and the tabs below - and dropped them into my header.php. He used background images for a lot of things that I prefer to do with CSS, so I adjusted my theme to look like his, but did it using mostly CSS. I replaced the slider background image with my own, but used only the visible area and not the black portion (since you have the template, you should know what this means). I did use his template images for the Lavalamp effect on the menu and for the tabs below the slider, but I think that was about it.

    To make all of this work, I just broke it down into pieces:

    - A top container for the header and the navigation menu
    - A slider container for the slider and the slider background
    - A content area for the tabs and text below the slider
    - A bottom container, in case I want to show bottom widgets on the page
    - A footer container for, uh, the footer.

    Each main container has a width of 100% to span the entire page and has a sub-container set to 960px to limit the view.

    If you're using FireFox with the Web Developer toolbar, you can view the HTML to see the layout of the <div>s.

    Since so many people have asked about this and my previous iteration - which are basically the same on the theme side of things, I'm working on a vanilla version that I can share. It may take some time though, because I want to make sure that the code is well documented so people can understand what to do and enable/disable what they want.

    Regards,
    G

32. kantoi09
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thank you so much. I was trying to figure out how to do it since I bought it , but I gave up and bought another theme (Dark Atlantica http://themeforest.net/item/dark-atlantica-wordpress-portfolio-wp-theme/50415) which I like but I think that I want to combine the two. I am thinking of waiting for the wp version but I hate to buy it again even though it is a different version. I will try your suggestions and see how it goes. My theme already is using a jquery slider. So hopefully it won't be too difficult. Thanks for the suggestions.

33. Gabe Young
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I think the site looks great!

    As folks mentioned already, I would do something with that H2 in the top right. I understand you want them for SEO purposes but they look like nav items. You could probably make them links by using hotspots on an image.

    Also, I certainly understand the reluctance of allowing right clicks for a photography site but I agree with others on here that disabling it is a bad idea. To mitigate some of your concerns, could you just add a watermark or copyright footer on each photo?

34. photoboothgirl
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Wow, it looks amazing, I am really impressed that you can do all this on WordPress!

35. gisdude
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    whoa! this is one of the best ones out there!

    great job!

36. sorebill
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Extremely nice site! Truly one of the best I've seen.

37. galen3050
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks to all of you for your recommendations, as well as your praise. I think I've been able to incorporate all of your recommendations, including ditching the right-click copy protection. Never knew that was an issue until I Googled it, but I guess that's how we learn. ;-)

    Regards,
    G.

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