Theme Options

In the main blog, visit Design > Theme Options. Fill in this info as necessary:

All other fields are intelligently applied/ignored.

Some Theme Options can also be set in the Photo Gallery blog.

Image Carousel

Creates an image carousel (dissolving slide show) on the home page of the main blog, between the navigation bar and the body content of the page. Image for the carousel should all be scaled to the same height and correct width. Upload the images via FTP into a folder on the website. (The carousel images do not need to be imported as Assets through the MT interface.) You may use from TWO to SIX images.

Entries

Pages

After adding any pages with @about, @contact, @footernav, or @topnav, the site must be republished to update all pages.

Choose Display > Options on the Create/Edit Page screen to enable these custom fields:

Drop-down Navigation Menu

By default, the navigation menu is built with pages tagged @topnav, @about, and/or @contact. This is a solid and simple way to build menus.

But, if a drop-down menu is needed, the CTP has provisions for it, although it is considerably more complex. To enable drop-down support visit Design > Theme Options > Design Options.

Once enabled, menus must be built. Similar to the simple navigation, links to the Main and Gallery blogs are first created; also, @about and @contact will add those pages just as with the simple navigation.

Folders are the backbone of the drop-down navigation. Create a folder structure (Manage > Folders) where each item to appear in the menu must be a folder. The parent/child folder relationship will be directly translated to the menu/submenu relationship published to the site. Any number of submenus and sub-submenus can be created simply by nesting Folders. Order the menu and submenu items (that is, order the Folders within the navigation menu) with HTML comments. Precede the Folder Label with "@@" for the first menu item, and "@@" for the second menu item. This comment ordering applies to both top-level menu items (relative to the other top-level items) and sub-menu items (relative to the other items in the same parent folder).

If there is any possibility of having more than 9 items in a given menu, use two-digits for ALL their folder label comments: "@@", and "@@" and so on, otherwise they will not sort properly.

At this point, you've created a menu structure that works, however it doesn't link anywhere. Add pages as destinations of each folder: select Create > Page and select the Folder you want this page to be attached to. Update the basename of this page to "@index@" and save. Selecting the Folder will place the file in the correct destination, and giving the page a basename of "@index@" will make it the default page. Many pages can exist in a Folder, but only the one with the basename "@index@" will be linked from the menu. Note that the "@@topnav@" tag is not necessary with the drop-down style menu.

Categories and Folders

The header image is specified at the site level through Theme Options. A category-specific or folder-specific header image can be displayed in its place, however.

Visit Manage > Categories and click a category name to edit it. There, use the Category Header Image field to add a header image specific to this category. Entries and category archives will both make use of this custom header. The Folder custom header override works the same way.