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  • Hello Kittens. Here is my candid opinion. The header portion is clean, modern, and includes a great three color scheme (the plum-ish color of your sticky shipping banner, the tan of your logo, and the dark grey). After that, it gets sloppy and looks amateurish.

    Here is what I would change.

    1) That purplish/blueish drop shadowed list. It looks really bad. Lose the bullets (in CSS it is list-style-type: none;) and drop shadow, then match the text color to one of the three colors in your header. If you have to have color, use the plum color.

    2) Your line ‘Makes a great easy gift…’ should be one of your list items above.

    3) Your mailing list bubble. Again use one of your three header colors for the background and also make the corners square as the outlines of your four rings above are square.

    4) If you must keep your ‘Or browse…’ line (which could really read ‘Browse our shop and get your ring on’) again, match one of the three good colors.

    Your SHOP page is very clean and professional looking because it lacks the busyness and color mis-mash of your home page. The only thing that I would change would be to go into your shopping cart plugin and match your link titles to that plum color.

    Hope this helps, DF

    Thread Starter danefoster

    (@danefoster)

    I would like to thank alchymyth for all the time and effort in helping me, I genuinely appreciate it. In the end, and for all other WordPress users searching for information on these forums, I ended up switching to the Twenty Twelve theme. I honestly created a child theme, re-wrote all my custom CSS, and resolved everything in less time than it took to attempt to figure out the ultra convoluted Twenty Eleven–which like most new users I picked arbitrarily.

    Twenty Twelve has changed my life. EVERYTHING is more clear and concise for all types of editing from CSS to PHP to the default options. I have figured out and resolved my sidebar issue.

    Thread Starter danefoster

    (@danefoster)

    alchymyth, I cannot thank you enough for your time, and effort to help others. I guess my point was to try to ‘fix’ this by editing the php files and/or by page templates so that I wouldn’t have to load in tons of specialized CSS, like the way you fixed this issue in your tutorials. This way I could simply select a page template and be done.

    I just copied this CSS into my child theme and I still have the same result, no dice. I guess the simplest question is what php file actually controls the page layout when using the default layout with the ‘right sidebar’ option selected? In the <body class> even though it seems to be calling my custom template, after that it still reads:

    <body class=”page page-id-5 page-template page-template-page-no-sidebar-final-php logged-in admin-bar single-author singular two-column right-sidebar customize-support”>

    So again, I guess the very simplest question is what php file controls default theme, right sidebar layout?

    Thread Starter danefoster

    (@danefoster)

    alchymyth, first off thank you so very much, you are awesome. Second, I followed all of these links and am fairly sure that I will be able to work something out. Third though, I have a final question on this topic–you were posed the question, as a comment on your first link #51 tutorial, how you would accomplish the same thing removing the sidebar completely. You responded:

    ‘what is the problem? if you create a page template, for instance starting with the code of page.php, then there is no call for the sidebar, and therefore no sidebar.’

    You are correct, the page.php has no sidebar call, yet when I create a new child template using page.php and name it ‘page-fullwidth’ my content is still huddled left even though my CSS for #primary is liquid using a percentage and should fill the width.

    So do I need to do some other modification like in your tutorial #54 as a work around?

    I think you are the one person who truly grasps the question–I am using a Twenty Eleven child, the theme option is set for right sidebar, but I simply want a template option for full width!

    Thank you again, I genuinely appreciate your time.

    Thread Starter danefoster

    (@danefoster)

    esmi, I genuinely appreciate your time and attempting to help me. I don’t believe that changing the CSS will help as ALL pages appear the same because the theme options are set to the right sidebar, but I will change my CSS to 100% width later this evening and see what happens and the post the results.

    Thread Starter danefoster

    (@danefoster)

    Yes, sorry. After I made my custom page template (meaning the Sidebar Template with the above line of php removed) and applied it to the About page, the layout still has the sidebar on the right side. Right now I do not have anything in the sidebar, but the other content is restricted to the left side and does not expand to the full width.

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