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Good Idea for sure. In the meantime you can google search, they are so many independent developers sharing Genesis stuff on their personal blogs.

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1. remove the search widget and then ad code in the text widget in the header right area. Make sure it is small add like 468px width

2. If you want to full width big ad like 920px, then add new widget area at the top of the header.

http://www.basicwp.com/add-new-widget-genesis-homepage/

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You can set semi transparent image for wrap class as background or use opacity css code

 

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/transparent-background-images/

 

http://davidshariff.com/blog/css-transparent-background/

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Play around with navigation class in style.css file for this look.  You can also look for professional customization services for getting this look to navigation.

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Looks good, you can explore free resources in the form for more customization suggestions. Also, you can get pro customization services to more custom look to this theme  - like us, the shameless plug

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By default responsive slide has either fade or slide effect.

 

If you want more control over slider effect, use some premium slider plugin like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/soliloquy-lite/

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minimum theme looks best according to your requirements  http://my.studiopress.com/themes/minimum/

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Open CSS file and make size changes here as per requirement.

 

h1 {
	font-size: 48px;
}

h1,
	h2,
	h2 a,
	h2 a:visited {
		font-size: 30px;
	}


h1 is used for post title styling

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In the following code:

body,
h1,
h2,
h2 a,
h2 a:visited,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6,
p,
select,
textarea {
	color: #222;
	font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: normal;
	line-height: 1.625;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	text-decoration: none;
}


Change one line:

	font-family: verdana, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times;

 

 

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1. Goto Genesis > Theme Settings

2. In content archives section, select “display post content” option.

3. Enter character limit like 90

4. Save Changes, read more button should appear

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Brown color code is #a68064

 

Change here:

 

.executive-brown input[type="button"],
.executive-brown input[type="submit"],
.executive-brown a.button,
.executive-brown .menu-primary li a:active,
.executive-brown .menu-primary .current-menu-item a,
.executive-brown .menu-secondary li a:active,
.executive-brown .menu-secondary .current-menu-item a,
.executive-brown .navigation li a,
.executive-brown .navigation li.disabled,
.executive-brown .navigation li a:hover,
.executive-brown .navigation li.active a,
.executive-brown .post-info .comments,
.executive-brown #header .menu li a:active,
.executive-brown #header .menu .current-menu-item a {
	background-color: #a68064;
}

 

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Goto Permalinks section in wordpress dashboard and click save button to refresh permalink settings. This should help

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1. You can download sample theme and make your own design. And of course can sell it. http://www.studiopress.com/free-themes/sample

2. Standard FAQs here - http://www.studiopress.com/faqs

3. For more precise information, contact Genesis support

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For better adsense integration you can change your website’s content font to something that is more used like verdana, arial and so on.

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To give it transparent look, you can enter color code of your website’s background. I can give you exact color code for specific color, if you can post link of your website.

For standard color codes, you can refer this - http://html-color-codes.info/

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