dotkate

Thanks ghas and pcather.

Most sites I’ve worked on this year are WordPress just because it’s so simple but powerful. Love some of the text heavy themes but struggling to find a really good photoblogging theme which isn’t all fancy on the outside but a pain to use on the inside. Still tweaking my site but more for fun now than to fix anything major. (As I said tho – all advice on what to add/change appreciated)

For YouTube – I suppose you could add a video plugin to the widgit bar and edit the CSS to show it above the first image block on the home page instead of at the bottom. You’d probably have to play around with the layout, maybe reduce the number of boxes and make the first layer into two squares rather than a squat rectangle so you work with the YouTube player attributes rather than struggling to change them.
Or – not quite what you’re after but maybe useful in the meantime – how about taking a screenshot of the video which you could use as the post thumbnail (aka featured image) so it shows on the homepage and when you click it takes you to the embedded clip within the post?

Hi Amatutti,

To resize the bottom two images you need to go to the ‘appearance’ tab on the right and click ‘editor’.
Open ‘stylesheet’ and scroll down to:

/* Image Grid for the Home Page */

When you get there you’ll see each image has a grid number. To resize your bottom two images you’ll need to increase the pixels widths for images 5 & 6.
To make them equal and fill the whole space try something along these lines:

.blog #content .hentry.p5 {width:394px;}
.blog #content .hentry.p6 {width:394px;margin-right:0;}

To switch the lower left and lower right images, change the publish dates in the ‘Edit Post’ section. The more recently the post was published then the higher up the page it will be.

If you also decide you want to remove the comment box from posts which may not need comments then go to ‘Single Post’ and remove:

// calling the comments template
thematic_comments_template();

,,,from under the ‘single_top’ and above the ‘single-insert’ actions.

Hope this helps,
DotKate