[Hidden-tech] Wordpress Theme

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:37:26 -0500 Stefan Gonick <stefan at DatabaseWebWorks.com> wrote:

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> Hi Everyone,
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> I've been wracking my brains trying to find what I thought would be a simple
> Wordpress theme for a new site that I am building.
> 
> What I am looking for is pretty simple (I think). The theme should allow me
> to use my current masthead graphic across the full width of the theme.
> 
> You can view the masthead graphic on a page of my existing site here:
> 
> http://www.findingtheloveyouwant.com
> 
> Under the masthead graphic would be a horizontal row of page navigation
> attractive links (ideally supporting subpages in a drop down menu).
> 
> The rest of the theme is a 2 column layout with the sidebar on the right.
> 
> I expect to modify the colors of the theme to match my current masthead
> graphic.
> 
> The theme should be of good quality, and I am willing to pay for an existing
> professional theme rather than trying to find a free one (though a good free
> one would be welcome). I already looked at all of the themes on the WP
> site and didn't see anything that I could use. One of the free themes was
> close but was buggy.
> 
> I've already spent 3 hours on this and am no closer to finding anything.
> Does anyone know where I can find a theme like this?

Have a look at http://www.deepsoft.com/

This is a theme that is *heavily* hacked, using Techozoic Fluid as the
original basis. Techozoic Fluid was vaguely close to what I wanted: I
copied Techozoic Fluid's files and then hacked away at the PHP code to
get what I wanted: a masthead (but with dynamic content (page title,
sub-title, Google search box), a navigation bar top and bottom (no
dropdowns), Google Adsense leaderboard and at the top of the right
sidebar.  I have both fixed and variable additional ads on the right. 
The left (main) column has the content, in some cases with download
links. I have a special page for screen shots, since they tend to be
wider that would otherwise fit with the right sidebar, the right sidebar
is ommited for the screen shot pages.

You might want to consider starting with Techozoic Fluid and rehacking
it to suit.

I can bundle up my theme, if you want.  There is a pile of extra PHP
code that is rather specific to my pages (stuff involving stuff like
Google Adsense, extra ad buttons/text on the right, and extensive stuff
relating to the download and screenshot pages), so you most likely don't
want to use my code as is, but if you are interested, I can make it
available for you to look at.

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> Thanks,
> Stefan
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