Header & Footer

  • Hi< I’m new to blogs and Word Press. I have gone thru the basic codex lessons, and can figure out the use of Word Press. Now I’m into the “design” stage.

    I have read thru several posts regarding own or custom headers but almost all of them are referring to replacing their own images.

    I have my own website built on MSFP and they have a shared border for the header and footer. My header ends at the 5 pictures (one with tiger beer).
    https://www.thaivisitor.org

    I am wondering whether it is possible to have this header incorporated into Word Press blog and if it is, where do I find the instructions. Also the footer.

    I would also like to add in my newsletter subscription form to the right panel of the blog.

    All in all, the blog would now be my home page but I need the design to remain similar to my whole website.

    If this is difficult to do but possible, is there anywhere that I can pay someone to do it for me?

    I sincerely hope that someone here can help me out with the answers.

    Thanking you in advance.

    Cheers
    Tee Vee

    PS: I don’t mind any blue 2 column flexible width theme that can be modified.

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  • If you want your blog to look like your existing website – you need a theme that uses the same elements and “mimics” your design.

    If you want paid help:
    a) make a post about it, with your contact address and after that I’ll close the topic.
    b) alternatively, you can post to the wp-pro mailing list:
    https://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-pro

    Thread Starter thaivisitor

    (@thaivisitor)

    Thanks for the reply.

    I am pleased to report that there is progress in my blog.

    What I have done is this;

    I have installed several themes and tested them out. Since my website header is generally dark in nature, I opted to use “Neuron 1.1” which is dark blue in nature.

    The width for Neuron was 760px so what I did was used the “Theme Editor” from the Admin/Presentation, go to “style.css” and changed the width under “#rap” to 920px under /* Body and Rap Styling */. This resulted in the width of the blog to increase both sides which is what I wanted.

    Next I modified the width of the sidebar to 260px from 180px under /* Sidebar Styling */. To make it look neater, I modified the full_sidetitle images (both png and gif) using Photoshop from 175px to 255 px, FTP it to replace the earlier ones so it covered the length of the sidebar. (It’s the blue blackground where the “headings” like Pages; Categories, Calendar, etc.)

    Having settled the sidebar, I next go on to the Content side. The original fonts was Times Roman I think, so I changed that to Verdana to suit my website by adding “font-family: Verdana;” under #content in /* Post Styling */. The result was just what I wanted but the text where you have the date, time and poster overshot the middle part of the background image which doesn’t look nice. So increasing the width from 555px to 600px under #content in /* Post Styling */ solved the problem.

    After that I decided to work on the Footer. I opened up Footer.php, copy all the codes and transferred it to the code view of Microsoft Frontpage. I than replaced all the codes with the codes of my own footer in between these original codes.

    <hr />
    <p id=”footer”>
    .
    .
    .
    .
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

    The result came out but with a lot of mess so I took the time to remove the codes for the tables, paragraphings, etc to tidy up the footer. For the images, I linked it from my website instead of FTP them into my Word Press files. So now my Footer has my copyright statement, like my website, the banners and links are all neatly in place. You can compare the footer from my original site and my blog.

    https://www.thaivisitor.org/
    https://www.thaivisitor.org/blog

    I will be working on my Header next, much the same way as my Footer and will let you guys know the result.

    Anyway, my intention of posting is to share with everyone here that it is not as difficult as it looks or sound. I am totally a newbie, have never done a blog before, does not know html, css or php or any codes but with some reading, common sense, I am able to get to my blog up and I believe any newbie can also do that.

    Cheers
    Tee Vee

    Thread Starter thaivisitor

    (@thaivisitor)

    Hi, I’ve done the Header.

    Not the best that I can do, but I think it is good enough to blend into my website.

    Now I need to put in the subscription form into the sidebar.

    Cheers
    Tee Vee
    https://www.thaivisitor.org/blog

    Thread Starter thaivisitor

    (@thaivisitor)

    Anyone can guide me on how to add in my “Subscription Form” into my Sidebar below the “Site” Menuheader? (Not inside the Menuheader).

    Also, I would like to centralise the “Search Form” to look better above the “Page” menuheader.

    Grateful for any help provided.

    Thanks.

    Cheers
    Tee Vee

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