quick question re: what is possible with custom css

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    theofficeberlin · Member ·

    hello,

    i am wondering if could get some quick information on whether i could make the type of website i would like to, using wordpress & custom css. this is a website for an art space, and we want to use wordpress so that any of us can easily update information (without having to go through a webmaster, etc). however, we would like it to look like a professional page and not like a blog.

    something very simple. a white page with our name at the top, one horizontal navigation bar (press, contact, support, etc), and in the center of the page just 6 square images that link to different pages (for each project). i have already made the square images in photoshop, and have planned out this design, but am unsure if i can make these design choices using custom css. each project-page would also have its own running blog w/entries on it.

    i haven’t worked with css in a while, and am wondering if this is feasible.

    any information would be appreciated! thank you so much!

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    timethief · Member ·

    See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

    You cannot build or use your own custom theme built from scratch at WordPress.com. There are two free themes, Sandbox and Toolbox designed to allow maximum flexibility for CSS editing and creating new “skins”. Toolbox is more modern and includes a lot of support for CSS3 and HTML5, so it is really only limited by your skills and knowledge.

    If you have CSS editing experience the upgrade will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes, but will not allow you to change the functionality, by editing the underlying template. It does not allow you to remove footer links to the theme designer or to WordPress.com. Also note that CSS is theme specific, so you cannot use the CSS stylesheets from other themes with the themes at wordpress.COM.

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    theofficeberlin · Member ·

    thank you for your help.
    i have read that page before, and know about sandbox/toolbox…

    but i am wondering if what i am looking to do requires me to edit the functionality / underlying template of wordpress.

    this is a bad example, but an example nonetheless:
    http://www.thecoolhunter.net/

    i want the image(/link) grid in the center. no left nav, no right nav, and no ongoing blogroll on the first page.

    the footer link to wordpress and themedesigner i know about, but would it be possible for me to get rid of all those other things?

    and to re-insert them in the other pages i link to, from that first page?

    thank you so much!

  • Unknown's avatar
    theofficeberlin · Member ·

    or like this:
    http://safe.tumblr.com/theme/preview/16073

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    timethief · Member ·

    I’ll leave it ti Staff to answer you.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    What you can do is to either use a theme that allows you to set all pages as “no-sidebar full-width” or you can do away with the sidebar via CSS and recover that space for the main content. You might want to take a look at Manifest. It is rather narrow, but that can be easily changed via CSS. If you need them, there are also bottom “sidebars” you can use.

    For the main page with the six images, set a static front page for the site and then in the body of that page put the six images and link them to the pages.

    Set the Homepage

    The “project page” with running blog can be done via categories for each project, but the category pages do not provide anyway to have static content on that page. It will just list the posts in that particular category. In many themes here though there are separate page classes for each page in a site, so you can target those pages and do, say a custom header for each page.

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