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Adeptris

Posted: 2/27/2010
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I have been working on a CMS style portfolio theme with a Artisteer 2.4 generated theme, plus I have added a few extra's and had several questions about it, so I have made it a free download. O:)

It is an Artisteer created theme, but has multiple post columns 2-4, a widgitized footer outside the sheet, WordPress Thumbnails with links and mouseover fade in and fade out effect all done with css.

This theme is not a typical Artisteer or blogging theme and is designed to promote yours or your customers professional skills or services, so it needs no sidebars and is not adSense enabled so it can be used on WordPress.com, although there are many other themes and plugins that could deliver these features.

I have not made tutorials for the post columns but have commented the code in the home.php, index.php and archive.php files so you can see how easy it is with Artisteer, after reading loads of requests and lots of posts on creating two post column pages, and after testing lots of code that did not work, it was as simple with an Artisteer theme as 1 block of css, 1 new div and a small code change in the loop :-D

Feel free to download it and use the theme or the code and any idea's for your own use or themes.

View it, get it, use it and enjoy it here!
http://digitalraindrops.net/demo/wordpress/cms-lite/2010/02/27/cms-portfolio-theme/

David

 
Dave Porter

Posted: 2/27/2010
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Hi David,

Looks great, thanks for an excellent example site...

I have been on the lookout for a slideshow to place on the front page of a site for ages and this looks ideal, but I ran into some problems :(

I see the default image size is 600x300, so I created a couple of image exactly that size to play, but they are too small for the area & therefore don't look right!

Am I doing something wrong or is there a particular size image I should use ?

TIA, Dave Porter

 
Adeptris

Posted: 2/28/2010
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Hi Dave,
For my theme the slideshow width is set to 'cu3er_width', '950' in the cms-functions.php

If you are using my theme, your cu3er setup width should be setting itself to 950 pixels, to make it look right, the height is up to you, the images on the sample website were sized to 950 width.

If you are using the cu3er slideshow on a different theme then you should set the width in the Admin > Setting > cu3er, you can see all my settings for the portfolio cu3er in the screenshot.

B.T.W. I did not add about setting the number of posts to 8 in Setting > Reading, as makes a reasonable home page load time.

using pingdom: website information
Total loading time:2.8 secondsTotal objects:41 (771.5 KB)
External objects:2 (11.7 KB) (X)
HTML:1 (28.2KB)
RSS/XML:0
CSS:5 (50.7KB)
Scripts:7 (117.5KB)
Images:28 (575KB)

David
 
Adeptris

Posted: 2/28/2010
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B.T.W. if you are using the cms-functions.php on another site with a different width.

You will need to update this line in the cms-functions.php


/* Set the slideshow width to 950 */
if (!get_option('cu3er_width') || get_option('cu3er_width')!= 950) update_option( 'cu3er_width', '950' );



your images can be wider
 
Dave Porter

Posted: 2/28/2010
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Thanks so much David,

I'll digest all that and have a go at applying it and let you now how I go...

regards, Dave

 
Dave Porter

Posted: 2/28/2010
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Hi David,

I just took a quick look, and I was wrong in my first post, I did have them as 950, but I still am only seeing the image fill up around 80% of the width of the available space for the slideshow !

Any thoughts ?

Thanks Dave