anyone know an appropriate theme for this problem

  • Hi, there’s several features about the theme of following website https://www.justjared.com (which uses wordpress I believe) that I would like to have for my blog

    a) if you have a look, it has two black columns (one down each side) that the site sometimes uses for full length advertising of movies etc and when the advertising is not there, they are just black.

    therefore, he has the ability to put images in those areas when he wishes. can anyone tell me how to achieve this? I presume they are not sidebars because i) they are full length of the site and ii) he already has a side bar in the content area

    b) when the advertising is inserted in those side columns, he also creates more space at the top of the site (above where the Celebuzz nav bar is) and puts images there as well. how to do that?

    c) he has created a square advertising box beside his justjared logo. how to put these two side by side like this? my header always spans the full width of the screen, but I would rather have it like his, so I could put a block of advertising beside it

    thanks if you can help

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  • it has two black columns (one down each side)

    Didn’t see them but a multi-column theme isn’t unusual.

    I presume they are not sidebars because i) they are full length of the site and ii) he already has a side bar in the content area

    You can have as many sidebars as you want. This theme apparently has four. There are other themes around that have 3 or more sidebars.

    how to put these two side by side like this?

    The header is simply split into two area with one floated to the left (or right) of the other using CSS.

    Thread Starter helenspacegirl

    (@helenspacegirl)

    Esmi, what did you see to the left of the Just Jared Logo-, if you don’t see any black area? I thought this might be the wrapper, but then I was wondering how he sometimes put info in them

    what did you see to the left of the Just Jared Logo

    A Flash file but I classed that as part of the header. Basically, he has a header that is first split horizontally into two areas (so that’s 2 <div></div> blocks with fixed heights via CSS). Then the lower block is split into 2 vertically – 2 <div></div>` blocks again.

    The rough wireframe I’d use would be

    <div id="header">
<div id="upper">[...]</div>
<div id="lower">
<div id="left">[...]</div>
<div id="right">[...]</div>
</div>

    The heights, widths and positioning could then be applied using CSS. Using WordPress, it would be relatively easy to place widget-ready sidebars, forms or plain markup into each of those div blocks.

    Not sure how you could search for a theme that replicates this kind of layout but you may find some themes that come pretty close if you search for 3-column or 4-column themes with custom-header options.

    Thread Starter helenspacegirl

    (@helenspacegirl)

    thanks, when you say you saw a flash file next to the header, are you look at his page in a browser? I guess it’s not that important, but on my browser, he has two black void spaces

    are you look at his page in a browser

    Yes – Firefox 3 with FlashBlock. Perhaps you don’t have Flash installed?

    Thread Starter helenspacegirl

    (@helenspacegirl)

    hmm, i’ll look into that, i didn’t think there was anything wrong because yesterday, when he had advertisements up down the sides, they were obviously visible to me, so i didn’t know i might need anything else

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