jonimueller

Did you want the custom template to be your front page (where all the posts are listed in chrono order? If so, you need to edit your index.php file. If you want them on single posts, edit your single.php file, on archive posts, archive.php and so forth. You created a Page template, not a custom post template. Pages lie OUTSIDE post hierarchy so that’s why the custom page template wasn’t being applied. Does this make sense?

You can use conditional statements to make things look just about any way you want. Read about those here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

Okay, piece by piece. Let’s operate on your header.php file first.

Find this:

<div id="header" onclick="location.href='http://myalternativemind.net';" style="cursor:pointer;">
	<h1><a href="http://myalternativemind.net">My Alternative Mind</a></h1>
	<div class="description"></div>
</div>

And strip out the two divisions inside. So it looks like this:

<div id="header" onclick="location.href='http://myalternativemind.net';" style="cursor:pointer;">
</div>

Save the file. Now, go to your stylesheet (styles.css). And find this chunk, under /* Begin Structure */:

#page {
	margin: 20px auto;
	padding: 0;
	width: 760px;
	}

#header {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0 auto;
	height: 200px;
	width: 100%;
	}

For #page, change the width to match the width of your intended header graphic.

For #header, you’ll basically change it up to look like this:

#header {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0 auto;
	background-color: [matching bg color expressedin hex];
	background-image: url(/images/[your image name]);
	background-position: top left;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-attachment: scroll;
	margin: 0 auto;
	height: [height of your image, in px];
	width: [width of your image, in px];
}

Make sure you upload your header image to the /images folder of your theme so the stylesheet can find it.

Then you’ll need to go through the stylesheet and make sure the widths that are 760px are changed to whatever the width of your header image is. Contact me offlist (check my profile) if you need more help.

And why would that be asks Curious George? And .. what’s the workaround? Leetspeak? I could have sworn I’ve blogged about .htaccess before.

Sorry, that was rude of me. Here you go:

Habari:
http://www.habariproject.org/en/

sNews:
http://snewscms.com/

@bytes .. Well you asked “Can anybody shed some light on it?” and immediately after, you got your answer in the form of some (helpful) links. So if you already knew the answer, why the question? Oh, and sorry, but I will decide when and whether I will sit down and shut up. But thanks for trying. My husband’s been at it for over 30 years and he hasn’t had any more luck than you. 😉

That’s not too hard. I’ll see if I can post exactly where you need to make your changes in the stylesheet. You will just need to take care of uploading the background image and your banner image and plugging in the sizes.

Oops, don’t forget to add the purdy tiled background to your body tag in your stylesheet. 😉

Not sure how that answers my question whooami. Go troll in another thread

and

Can anybody shed some light on what the script is doing?

You clearly don’t know who you’re dealing with. Whoo is a security expert, you nimrod. Can’t be bothered to click on a link that might not only shed light on your problem but also help PREVENT you from making the mistake that brought you here in the first place?

Un-freaking-believable.