One of the design elements I wanted to incorporate on a site I was building was to give it a softer feel. To do this I needed to round the edges of the content box, the sidebar title boxes and the navigation menu buttons. Another thing I wanted to accomplish to give the site an UnThesis look was to move the navigation buttons more in the middle of the layout. This was a difficult code to find as most tutorials discuss … [Read more...]
Thesis Customization — How To Reposition The Navigation Bar–Round The Edges of The Content Box, Sidebar and Navigation Buttons & Remove All The Lines From Thesis Theme
Thesis Theme Customization–A Tutorial
Do You Want To Learn How To Customize The Thesis Theme So It Doesn’t Look Like The Thesis Theme? Over the last week I have been working on learning how to make the Thesis theme not look like the Thesis theme. It started with an idea of trying to come up with a fresher look for a site I was building so I started to search the internet to see what other people might be doing with their Thesis themes. What I found was very impressive … [Read more...]
Creating a Static Home Page & Blog Section with Thesis – WordPress

I recently set up a couple of new sites that required a home page that stayed the same all the time and a couple of other pages for information. More of a content management site then a blog. I still wanted the ability to continuously add pages/posts like a blog but I needed some static structure to the site as well. I had seen some sites like this, built with Thesis, but I could not quit figure out how to do it. So, like many … [Read more...]
Thesis Rotating Header – A Blog Upgrade

I have been working lately on giving my blog a new look. One of the reasons I started thinking about this was that a number of the blogs I frequent have made upgrade changes lately. As I evaluated these new blog looks and compared them to my blog it was evident why they had made the changes they made. Cleaner – Brighter – Less Cluttered All of the blog sites had made changes to help them look cleaner, … [Read more...]
Aweber field problems with Thesis Theme
I recently had an issue with my Aweber forms on this blog. When I inserted the code from aweber and looked at my form the field widths where shortened. They were getting shrunk down to about 5 characters wide. I went on a search to find the answer. Here is what I found. There seems to be a little glitch with Thesis 1.5 and quit possibly previous versions had the same issue but it seems to be more obvious in … [Read more...]
What to Do BEFORE You Upgrade to WordPress 2.8
Preparation Will Save You From Disaster There are so many benefits to the upgrade to the new version of Wordpress 2.8 its hard to justify not upgrading. I will be upgrading all of my sites over the next couple of weeks and some of them are running on Version 2.6.5. One of the biggest reasons I am making the upgrade is the increase in speed. The new version is built for speed and in the internet world, speed is King. Faster loads … [Read more...]
Thesis Theme Upgrade – Oh Yea!!!

I just upgraded my Thesis Theme from the version 1.4.2 to version 1.5. and can’t believe my eyes. I purchased the Thesis Theme a few months ago as I was starting this blog. My decision to buy was based on all the positive reviews I read about the Thesis Theme and I felt that if I was going to be a serious blogger, I needed a serious theme. This certainly is not the first theme I have worked with. I have extensive … [Read more...]
Customizing My Home Page in WordPress / Thesis
I love the internet. As I learn more about it and become more involved with it I am amazed at the people inside of the internet. You see, I am the kind of person that will wait until the very last possible minute to ask for help. I rarely asked my teachers or fellow students in school for help, thinking that would make me seem like I didn’t know the answer and give myself away. It just did not make sense to me. What happened is I … [Read more...]
My Thesis Full-Header & Custom Background
I have just spent the weekend setting up this site with the Thesis wordpress theme. My challenge was to get the full-header to do what I wanted it to do and have the custom background act right as well. It took most of the weekend to get the answers and maybe they can help you as well. This is the first time I have actually purchased a theme . With so many free themes available it took me a while to pull the trigger. I did some research … [Read more...]
Removing Comments Box From Archive Page In WordPress Thesis Theme.
Sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly. As I proceed with my customisation process of this site you are going to get all the goodies that took me some time to figure out. You will either get some good information that helps to solve the same problems I encountered or you will get to say, “Dude, I can’t believe you didn’t know that”. Well this might be one of those times. In my defense, I have searched for the last couple of … [Read more...]