Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and like a balloon entertainer, it allows for many creative ideas. Over the past several years, I have converted my website and balloon forum to match the holidays. Due to family responsibilities, I have had less and less time to accomplish this.
However, that has changed, and I decided to convert the balloon forum and Dale’s blog to a Halloween theme. Since this is my 100th post on my blog, I thought I would make it special by designing a Halloween theme for WordPress (WP).
I, like most WordPress bloggers, first scoured the Internet looking for a WP Halloween theme. I only found a couple with two columns, but I was looking for one. This wouldn’t do. So, never creating a WP theme, I search again for information on creating a WP theme. Now, I know from my years as a programmer that very few, if anybody, starts from scratch. Just too much to create-we all start with a basic code and design from there.
The theme I was using is xMark theme which I like and thought I would start there. It took me a little time to figure out what was happening in the theme-mostly it was trying to figure out where the styles tag was used and what it affected. Once I figured out the basics, it was just a matter of getting the graphics complete.
So here it is, my first real modified theme. I have to give the xMark group a big thank you for designing a perfect theme. I’ve compressed the files, so if others would like to try it, go ahead-try it at your own risk. If it doesn’t work, oh well.
Here is the compressed file.
So what do you think of my two days of work? Was it worth it?
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