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It depends where those links are. Can’t tell from your picture. If it’s on the homepage it would be index.php or home.php, if it’s the category display then category.php, if tag display then tag.php etc…

You don’t need to choose a theme with the same layout. You current theme has 2 sidebars and 1 content column. You can change to a 2 column theme (1 content, 1 sidebar) without any issues, however you may need to set up the items your sidebar again.

You can also use the theme preview function in WordPress to see how your site will look with the new theme before switching.

It looks good, and will look even better when the site fills out with more content.

One suggestion would be to implement “prettier” permalinks so instead of your urls being fashionhotbox.com/?p=257 it will be fashionhotbox.com/post-title see http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

Good luck with the new site.

The reason for the huge space is the top padding for the site title. Have a look in your style.css file on line 2407 and adjust the padding for:

#site-title {
    padding: 5.30625em 0 0;
}

You will need to make it much smaller than the current 5.3em

Have a look here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-decrypt-an-encoded-theme?replies=3

If you want free themes look here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

If you want a commercial / premium theme there are plenty of good developers you can buy from here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/

Downloading premium themes shared on dodgy sites is just dumb, especially if you want to use it for a government website! If you want a premium theme, do the right thing and pay for it.

Hi Shan, it’s a good start. Just a couple of comments from a quick look. You have social sharing sections on the top, the side and in the sidebar. It’s a bit much and one place would probably be enough. You might want to also consider if having items like privacy policy, terms of use etc in the top menu is the best place for them.

Yes, the important thing is to remove the background styling of your pages, header, main, and any other elements. Then the body background image will give you a single background for the entire page. It’s the styling of your other elements (page, header, main etc) that are overwriting the body background. If you remove the backgrounds of the other elements, the body background will come through as the background of everything. Hope that’s a bit clearer.