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November 12, 2014 at 9:10 am #131293Rick SportelMember
Hello,
I have a question about my current website: Woontrendz.nl
It's built on a theme I bought from ThemeForest and now I'd like to switch themes. I want to use Genesis to be more flexible.
Do you think it is possible to use Genesis and make it look just like my current website looks?
Thank you for your time!
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November 15, 2014 at 3:44 am #131598WisdmLabsMemberHi Rick,
Yes, it is possible to use Genesis and make your site look like the existing one.It involves building a Genesis child theme from scratch by using the CSS of your existing site to maintain its look and feel.
Using a Genesis child theme will definitely give you more flexibility and would also improve the performance of your website.
You can check out this article to know more benefits about switching to Genesis child theme.
In case you need a free consultation on this, you can contact us from here.
November 17, 2014 at 12:53 am #131808devParticipantThis would be rather straightforward. I'd take a theme that already has a left, middle, and right widget area... like Executive Pro or Enterprise Pro, get rid of the slider or top area and put either text widgets or featured pages or posts in the three middle areas.... just stack them up in each area.
Another concept might be to use a portfolio plugin, or perhaps even an e-commerce plugin, but with those you would probably not get the uneven height 'random' look that you have now.
Finally, you could use the Catalyst theme to quickly build your 3 column homepage to stack widgets in or perhaps columns of widget areas.
Of course you are using a javascript code for the Facebook-like bottomless columns, which I think is poor design, especially if you ever want anyone to read your footer (and there is no way for someone to read it now, that I could find. One at the bottom, more pix always pop up.
Lots of options for you.
Dev
http://www. NewMediaWebsiteDesign.comNovember 25, 2014 at 6:09 am #132733Rick SportelMemberHi WisdmLabs,
I think building a theme from scratch is the way to go! I'll use the Genesis Sample Child Theme as a starting point.
Rick
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November 25, 2014 at 6:13 am #132734Rick SportelMemberHello Dev,
I don't think widgets are the solution.
I guess I need a Masonry grid for my archives together with infinite scroll. Found the right tutorials to create this:
http://sridharkatakam.com/?s=Genesis+Masonry
Rick
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