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Thanks for your reply. That saved me a lot of freak-out time. 🙂

[trbdesign]

Thanks!! That did the trick. So this applies even though this is a static home page and not the blog? I think the .entry class threw me off. Thanks again.

ToniB

[trbdesign]

Do you have any idea why it doesn't work for my footer? I copied everything from #nav, but no luck.

Toni

[trbdesign]

I spoke too soon. I didn't include the # for the first nav. It worked like a charm!!! Thank you, thank you!!

Toni

[trbdesign]

Thanks, but that didn't help. I think I need to make a couple of divs to hold the images, but I don't know how (or where to put them).

[trbdesign]

Thanks for your reply. Sorry to be so dense, but where would I find the class to change?

I tried substituting .nav and .wrap for .sidebar and .widget-title, but no luck. Also, should I be putting anything in content: "";?

Thanks,

Toni

[trbdesign]

I understand now. I was trying to use an image for the background and another one for the wrap. Thanks for your help.

Toni

[trbdesign]

Thanks, but when I changed line #371, they're now both the border image. I want the border image which is tan on the outside and the white image in the wrap.

Where can I set the background image for the container (before the wrap is declared)?

[trbdesign]

I think this has a good example of what I'm trying to do:

http://baristamommy.com/

I want to have an outside image like the flowered part while still keeping the inside wrap light and readable.

I have this on line 88 of my css code, but it's not working.

body {
background: url(images/bg-texture.png) repeat scroll 0 0;
line-height: 1;
}

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Toni

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Hi Brad,

Thanks for responding.

No, I set the the WordPress settings to "Display Latest Posts" even though that's not what I wanted to do. The slider shows up now on the front page. I want the "About" page to look like the rest of the inside pages.

What I'd really like is for someone to point me a tutorial/discussion thread that explains how to set up a Genesis theme with a menu that has a "Home" link without having to set it up to show the latest blog posts. I want my blog posts to be on a separate "Blog" link in the menu, and the front page to look like I have it now. It's my understanding that I can use the genesis responsive slider with static pages or blog posts. Am I just not asking the question correctly? I've googled this and searched through the Studiopress forums, but I can't seem to find an answer.

Help!

Toni B

 

[trbdesign]

Thanks for your help.  I have tried using CSS and adding a custom function. After checking firebug, I can see that custom divs, html, etc. that I added using functions.php are not showing up. I posted the question above to see if anyone had any idea why it's not working.  Thanks again for taking the time to answer my post though.

Toni

 

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Thanks Mary. I was hoping for a solution that didn't involve a plug-in so that I could learn how to do it, but I'll try your solution if I run out of time and have to meet my deadline.

 

Thanks again,

ToniB

 

[trbdesign]

Hi Tim,

I didn't really get it to work.

This theme has a #wrap that centers everything on the page. I changed it to

#wrap {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1140px;
}

Which is what makes it go full-width, but then everything starts at the left side of the page. In order to get everything centered again, you have to add a .wrap class to each <div>. So #header gets its own .wrap:

#header .wrap {
overflow: hidden;
padding: 25px 10px;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 960px;
}

The same happens to the nav bar:

#nav .wrap {
overflow: hidden;
padding: 25px 10px;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 960px;
}

Do this with all of the major <div>s.

The reason I say that it didn't really work is that my footer is centered, but I didn't really figure out how to make it expand and still keep the info centered. If you don't care about it being centered, just don't use a .wrap on the footer section.

Also, if you're not using firebug, you should get it. It really helped me see how CSS/HTML is set up on sites that I like. I've learned a lot about Genesis by using it.

Hope this helps.

ToniB

[trbdesign]

Thanks for your response. I started from scratch with the functions.php file from the genesis-sample theme and when I added your code at the bottom, I got the white screen of death. Does that have anything to do with the 'prose' notation? I'm fine with adding a new widget for a slider, but I still want to remove the sidebar on the front page so that my text in #content will go across the whole page instead of stopping where the sidebar should be.

Thanks again for your response.

ToniB

 

[trbdesign]

It worked! Thanks!!

[trbdesign]

Oops! It's http://sample2.tonibdesign.com.

Thanks.

 

[trbdesign]

Thanks so much for your reply. Trying to get it to work now.

Thanks again,

Tonib

 

 

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