mjhead

Hi,
For changing background you have option at your admin panel (Appearance->Background). For change pink line at top of page you need to edit your style.css, find next code

.page-wrapper:before {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  top: 0;
  height: 6px;
  background: url(images/page-top-bg.jpg) no-repeat center 0 #ff5b5b;
}

and edit it like you need.
Note, if you will be make any changes don’t forget use child themes for it. You can find great tutorial here http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes.

Hi, @beattyandrew
As I say in my previous post, you need to create e new page template. Let’s go step by step:
1) Create in your theme directory blank file, named for example blank-page.php, then open it for editing
2) Copy php code, which you can find here and paste it to created file in your theme directory and save this file.
3) Create new page in your dashboard, in the Edit Page screen you can find Page Attributes box – find there Template dropdown and select Blank Page template (you need to add new page or open existing for editing only after creating file with page template)
4) Modify your content and publish this page

Name and Slug may be different

I’m glad I could help you 🙂

Also I recommend you to add next code into your style.css:

#slider-wrapper {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
}

It also will be added in next version and fix small bug with drop-down menu (now it could drop below slide’s caption)

Your slider thumbnail size setted to 1170*550px, so images will be cropped to this size only if they are larger than this dimensions, if images smaller, they will be inserted in real size (532*425, 399*319 etc.), than this image will be stretched with CSS to 1170px by width and height in that case will be calculated automaticly, so it will be much larger than 550px

Hi
Don’t quite understand your question. Can you please be more specific?

Hi,
Number of posts for Portfolio page template gets from Settings -> Reading -> Blog pages show at most

Hi,
If you need lower slider height you can add to style.css next code

#slider-wrapper .flexslider {
    height: 300px; (or any value you want, but lower than 450px)
    overflow: hidden;
}

If you need bigger height – only way is change slider-thumnail size in functions.php, it’s will be not good solution if you don’t have much experience with WP

Note, if you will be make any changes don’t forget use child themes for it. You can find great tutorial here http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes.