Archive for 'appearance'

Appearance: Header and Background

11 HEADER BACKGROUND 200x112 Appearance: Header and BackgroundStarting to think about the look and feel of your website, a quick tour of changing some imagery in the background and header of your website, using the new twenty-eleven theme in WordPress.

From time to time, you might like to update the look and feel of your WordPress site. This video demonstrates how to change the look of your site by installing a new Theme.

From the Appearance sub-panel, you can change the entire look and feel of your site by installing and activating new themes, or by changing your existing theme. A theme is actually a bundle of files that determine the overall design of a site, including colors, graphics, layout, and fonts. There are literally thousands of WordPress themes available to choose from, running the entire gamut of both quality and price.

This video also covers how to add a custom background image or custom header graphic to your site design.

Covered in this video:

  • How to find and install new themes.
  • Updating the look of your site with one click using the Appearance sub-panel.
  • Previewing changes before you activate a new theme.
  • Editing the background and header in the default WordPress Theme, Twenty Ten.

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Building Custom Menus

13 CUSTOM MENUS 200x112 Building Custom MenusThe Menu controls in the WordPress dashboard let you choose your navigation scheme and configuration with lots of options. This video shows you how to choose menu items, the order and hierarchy of the items, and how to use more than one menu at a time on different parts of your site.

You’ll learn how to use build custom navigation menus, including drop-down menu items.

In the Menus sub-panel, you can create one or more custom menus, for use in your site’s primary navigation menu, or other areas in our site. Custom menus may contain links to individual pages, categories archives, or even external URLs.

Covered in this video:

  • How to create a new custom menu.
  • Adding pages, categories and custom links to your newly-created menu.
  • How to rearrange menu items.
  • Creating nested, or drop-down menus.
  • How to build multiple custom menus, and why.

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