Title: Template Strategy Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Template Strategy * [rpain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rpain/) * (@rpain) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-strategy/) * Hi – I’m trying to construct the layout here: * [http://www.cybercan.co.uk/preview/screenshot.jpg](http://www.cybercan.co.uk/preview/screenshot.jpg) * The main area is fixed width but the vertical graduation extends to the edge of each page. All of the text is live apart from the logo at the top (his name and ‘Conductor’). * Each different section has a different colour background graphic (including vertical fade) and the links top right change to show the sub sections with a ‘Home’ link above them. * I’m really trying to come up with a strategy for creating this. Do I choose a single column site and position the navigation as a block with css? The text at the bottom will range right on every page and the footer links will stay the same. * That’s really the main question – I don’t want to spend ages on one strategy to find out that doing it another way would have been better. * Thanks, Richard Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/) * (@chipbennett) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-strategy/#post-1982155) * Looks like a one-column layout would be the right approach: * HEADER * MENU (either wp_nav_menu() or a widgeitzed “sidebar”) * CONTENT (Loop) * FOOTER * Thread Starter [rpain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rpain/) * (@rpain) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-strategy/#post-1982165) * Thanks. The header logo and background are the same flat image (the logo changes colour on each page too) so should I just have * MENU * CONTENT * FOOTER * and use general CSS for the background which is different on each page? * Is there any way I can add a setting to each page to tell the system which background to use or should I just put in a php condition? * Cheers, Richard * [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/) * (@chipbennett) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-strategy/#post-1982166) * If you have a limited number of Pages, and a limited number of background images, then I would just control them via CSS, using an appropriate class output by the `body_class()` template tag added to the HTML `` tag. * Thread Starter [rpain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rpain/) * (@rpain) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-strategy/#post-1982168) * Sounds good to me – thanks. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Template Strategy’ is closed to new replies. * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [rpain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rpain/) * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-strategy/#post-1982168) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics