Specific ‘Look’ for Site

  • DDmUSA

    (@ddmusa)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    I would like to know if the following is possible using the 2016 theme:

    The following site has the so-called “look” that is desired:

    In the header, the logo appears within a torn strip of parchment paper. The page content appears on an intermediary background that has the appearance of torn parchment paper, with the background being wooden planks.

    I have modified the 2016 theme already to have the entire site display a full background of the wooden planks. The page content has no background in my staging environment, so I need to learn what is possible. And I also need to know what bits of WordPress would have to get picked apart in order to arrive at a responsive header with the look from the example.

    I was thinking that I could get a graphics person to prepare graphics files for each of the corners of the torn paper, along with a graphic that I could repeat horizontally to achieve the varying top and bottom edge for the torn paper, and then a graphic that I could repeat vertically to represent the parchment background as the page gets longer based on content.

    If this is possible, I would also want to know that if someone wanted to display any sidebar(s) on the page, that the sidebar(s) would appear as if they were on this torn parchment paper.

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by DDmUSA.
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  • paulwpxp

    (@paulwp)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Don’t use Twentysixteen theme, not that there is anything wrong with the theme itself, but when we work on a new project it’s better to always use the most recent theme, this is for longivity of the project. Old themes can only get so far, meaning there are some parts of php/html/css/js that when put together as a theme at one point in time it won’t be able to get up to date anymore. Some really old themes in managed network WordPress.COM get retired because of this.

    Recreating the look of the example site is simple and can be done with almost any theme with some extra CSS, and maybe some extra coding to put in the mentioned header (logo).

    There is no need to have the graphic person to make the images for that paper background, we can just grab them from the example site, the CSS for it is the same, just with different selectors.

    Thread Starter DDmUSA

    (@ddmusa)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the response. With regard to the sample site…. the sample site was not built in a pixel-perfect, responsive manner. I would want to use separate graphics so the code could repeat the images horizontally and vertically as needed to create the pixel-perfect look based on the screen size of the visitor.

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