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Sep 152011
Sep 152011
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[one_third_last]Dr. Murray Baumal attended the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in biology and is a graduate of Nova Southeastern University’s College of Optometry (Ft. Lauderdale, FL). He received residency training from the New England College of Optometry in the area of family eye care. He is licensed to use diagnostic and therapeutic pharmaceutical agents when necessary. He has been a member of the American Optometric Association as well as the Massachusetts Society of Optometrists.[/one_third_last]
Sep 152011
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Contrary to the common misconception that in order to be better dressed, you have to dress more formally, one can look just as capable and pulled together in casual attire as you can in suiting.[/one_third_last]
Sep 152011
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[one_half_last]Art Work by Fran
Frances Elwell Ventura, was born with passion to paint. She grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts and loves to capture the special places and people in her life on canvas. She enjoys working with oil paint and has recently broadened her artistic talents to include water colors and other mediums allowing her to capture her subjects in both a realistic and abstract light.
For Fran I created a WordPress based site that is easy to up date and add new images.[/one_half_last]
Jul 152011
In WordPress you can have parent themes and child themes. Parent and child themes work together to produce your website. Not all themes have a parent/ child relationship but parent/child themes are becoming very popular and I believe will be the future of WordPress.
In a parent/child theme relationship the parent theme controls the structure of the site. The Structure being the navigation, how feature images are used, if there is a slider and many other factors. The child theme is used to make customizations of the parent them. The most common customization are changes to basic look and feel of the site. What colors are used, what fonts, images and so forth, of courses the child theme can change just but any aspect of the parent them.
Why would you use a child them. For one it makes upgrading your website easy. With a parent/child them structure you can upgrade the parent theme without changing any of your customizations.
Child themes are also a great way to practice and learn how to build WordPress sites. With a parent/child theme relationship you will already have the basic structure of the site and can modify the site. It is also easy to revert to the original look and feel of the site when you produce something you don’t like.
How do child themes work?
A child theme modifies a parent theme or framework. WordPress looks at both the child theme and the parent theme but the child them has priority. In the case of a css file the the parent css file is looked at first and the child css is looked at second. With css if two things are the same then the second one takes priority.
Lest say the parent theme has all the text in blue and you want to change the text to black. Basically all you have to do is great the child them with a new css file and set the text to black.
For find out how to create a child theme see my article how to create a child theme.
What is a WordPress theme?
A WordPress theme controls many aspects of the look and functionality of your site. To use an automobile analogy the theme of you wordpress site is the body of the car. It’s the paint job, the front grill, the look of the headlights. Is it a 4 door, a hatchback, or a SUV.
Each theme controls the color and look of your posts and pages. It decides if there is a post thumbnail besides the page, weather meta data is displayed and how your icons look. It controls how may side bars you have and where they belong.
Out of the box wordpress comes with the Twenty Ten theme. This is an excellent beginner theme. While it does not have all of the bells and whistles of some of the premium themes it has all of the basics and is an excellent them to start modifying.
Switching themes. The first thing you should do is to switch your wordpress theme and see what happens. To switch your theme go to your admin panel and go to appearance and then themes. Here you can change the theme.
Below is example of what just changing a theme can do for your site.
First off we will start with the default them that comes with WordPress as of WordPress version 3.x the default theme is call Twenty Ten.
Below is what a test site of mine looks like with the twenty ten theme.
Next we have the same content with the free theme Evolve.
As you can see the two screen shots contain the same content but look very different. A lot of things have changed. The header is very different. The background color has changed from white to grey. And the sidebar has been styled very differently.
This shows you how just the change of a theme can create an entirely different look and feel of your WordPress site.