You want to create your own Page Template.
You can start here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
You need to:
1. Create a page template , call it template-about.php and add the following code to the top. Wrap the contents of this page with html tags, so that you can style it.
<?php
/*
Template Name: About Us
*/
?>
2. Next create a page in the wordpress backend, under Template (right sidebar), select “About Us” as the template.
3. Style it however you want with css.
I tried that and my page template did not show up in the drop down. What am I doing wrong?
OK – found my problem. My theme had a templates directory and that is where I put the custom template – and that was incorrect. I needed to put the template in the theme directory and now it works, whew.
thanks! i have used “wp network”. it works the same way. still i will try this method. thanks a lot! 🙂
