From a Fireworks Compto a Genesis Child Theme

Linda Shum & Sallie Goetsch

7/24/11

What’s Fireworks?

Why Some People Like Fireworks Better Than Photoshop

• Multiple Pages

• Symbols

• Styles

• Vector Objects

• Libraries

• Grouping

• Interactive Gradients

• Web Layers

• Slice-Scaling

• Easy to Learn

http://boagworld.com/design/fireworks-vs-photoshop/

What’s Genesis?

Why Genesis?

• Genesis is Search Engine Optimized

• Genesis Offers Great-Looking Turn-key Designs

• Genesis Gives You Unlimited Everything

• Genesis Gives You State-of-the-Art Security

• Genesis Lets You Update Your Site Instantly

• Genesis Makes Customizing Your Site Incredibly Easy

• Genesis has Custom Widgets and Layout Options

Theme Options

Custom Widgets

Original Design

Challenges With This Design

• Header and Footer Menus

• Graphite outlines around boxes

• Asymmetric drop shadows behind boxes

• Tabbed slider with rotating images

• Exact spacing

Pillaging Child Themes

What Came from Where

• Top and Bottom menus from News Theme

• Main menu from Mocha Theme

• Tabbed slider from Venture Theme

• Four-widget home page layout from Executive Theme

• Large widgeted footer from Platinum Theme

News Theme Header Menu

News Theme Header Menu Code

Don’t ask ME what this is doing in functions.php. I didn’t write it that way.

Mocha Menu

Venture Theme Slider

Executive Theme Widgets

Platinum Theme Footer

Contents of Theme Folder

Theme Images Folder

Theme Lib Folder

Style.css (Key to a Child Theme)

Functions.php

Registering Widgets

Remember this: we’re going to need to make some changes here.

THE ORIGINAL HOME PAGE

Home.php: Tabbed Slider

Home.php Top Right

Home.php Mission Statement

Home.php Middle Right

Home.php Bottom

Add three more just like this. Note the box classes for the backgrounds. We’re going to have to change those, too.

End of Home.php

SO WHAT’S UP WITH THESE WIDGETS?

Close-Up of Widget Design

Widget Sliced for Site

Test CSS for Widgets/* JUST SOMETHING TO HOLD THE BOX TOGETHER IN A FLOATING AREA */

.box-area {

float: left;

margin: 0 15px 0 0;

}

/* THE ACTUAL BOX, HEAD ON TOP, BOX WITH BACKGROUND, AND A BOTTOM */

.box-header-blue {

background: #FFFFFF url(box-head-blue.png) no-repeat;

width: 235px;

height: 45px;

color: #FFFFFF;

}

.box {

background: #FFFFFF url(box-back.png) no-repeat;

background-position: bottom right;

width: 235px;

}

.box-bottom {

background: #FFFFFF url(box-bottom.png) no-repeat;

width: 235px;

}

Test HTML for Widgets<div class="box-area">

<div class="box-header-blue"><div class="head-text">BOX HEADER TEXT</div></div>

<div class="box"><div class="content">

The box and its contents.<br><br>

And another line of text.<br>And some more.<br>Just to fill things up a

bit.<br><br>And something to end with.

</div></div><div class="box-bottom">&nbsp;</div>

</div>

What This Looks Like

Original Genesis Widget Code<div id="home-bottom-bg"><div id="home-bottom">

<div class="home-bottom-1"><?php if (!dynamic_sidebar('Home Bottom #1')) : ?>

<div class="widget">

<h4><?php _e("Home Bottom #1 Widget", 'genesis'); ?></h4>

<p><?php _e("This is a widgeted area which is called Home Bottom #1. It is using the Genesis - Featured Post widget to display what you see on the Executive child theme demo site. To get started, log into your WordPress dashboard, and then go to the Appearance > Widgets screen. There you can drag the Genesis - Featured Post widget into the Home Bottom #1 widget area on the right hand side. To get the image to display, simply upload an image through the media uploader on the edit post screen and publish your post. The Featured Post widget will know to display the post image as long as you select that option in the widget interface.", 'genesis'); ?></p>

</div><?php endif; ?></div><!-- end .home-bottom-1 -->

Translating CSS Test to Genesis

This looked great at first. Who can see the problem with this solution?

So Where Can We Put the CSS?

In the functions.php file

The Final Home Page

Look, Ma! No Tabs.

Final Home Page, 2

Locations Page

Success Stories

Where to Find Us

Sallie Goetsch

wpfangirl.comLinda Shum

shumdesign.com