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WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

By : Peter Spannagle, Sarah Soward
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WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

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By: Peter Spannagle, Sarah Soward

Overview of this book

WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform now. This flexible CMS is the power behind millions of URLs, including blue-chip companies, small business, and personal websites. Flash is a world-famous multimedia platform. This book will show you the best of the proven and popular strategies and techniques to deliver rich multimedia content, which will let you sail through the world of Flashy Wordpress with ease.This book will take you through clear well-formed and comprehensive recipes, through the most essential and useful Flash multimedia tools for Wordpress available today including plugins for images, audio and video, as well as projects you can do yourself in Flash. It helps you to create a Wordpress website full of Flash content. We show the big picture by providing context, best practices and strategies. Detailed instructions are provided for each section. This book provides you with the shortlist of the most essential Flash tools for creating a dynamic and media-rich website or blog, and shows you how to implement these on your site. The sections on Flash are intended to give you the option to create custom .swf files, giving you an alternative to plugins that already exist. The book will show you how to configure Flash content in your WordPress site/blog for maximum SEO, introduce Flash content to your Wordpress with and without plugins, import image feeds, use lightbox effects, and much more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Wordpress and Flash 10x Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
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WordPress Resources
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Flash Resources

Customizing Kubrik


Now that we are familiar with the pieces that control the look and content of your theme, let's apply this knowledge and make some changes to the default Kubrik theme.

Getting ready

The first step is to make a list of the changes that you want to make. Here's what we've come up with:

  • Increase width to 980px

  • Increase font sizes in sidebar

  • Use a graphic header

We've picked 980px as our target width because this size is optimized for a 1024 screen resolution and works well in a grid layout. Several CSS adjustments will be necessary to realize this modification, as well as using an image editing program (we will be using Photoshop).

How to do it...

To increase the page width, the first step is to determine which entries in the CSS stylesheet are controlling the width. Using Firebug to inspect the page (as seen below), we find that the selector #page has a value of 760px for the width property. And #header has a width of 758px (less because there is a 1px left margin). The .narrowcolumn...

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