CorporateAmerica: Business Concrete5 Theme

Theme questions  on January 13th, 2010

I purchased your theme last night as it has certain capabilities that I like (colors good for me, “news” feature, staff profile feature).

The questions below relate to my attempt at a trial mock up demo for our website, http://cementx.c5host.com/ )

However a couple questions (and I’m just getting acquainted w/ Concrete5, so excuse my lack of basic knowledge):

1. I’d like to put a simple search bar at the top of each page (like on your “demo” example but a) I have to separately add the search function to each new page–how do I get it to do this “globally” to all pages when added; b) The search bar cannot be added without a “search title”, which even if I put a blank space there, will add an unwanted line of text; c) I can’t figure out how to add a text block to the header picture (it appears, now, as a translucent white rectangle)–or alternatively, gettng rid of the text block altogether.

I’m sure these have simple answers…can you provide any insight?

Thanks,
Jan Prusinski
jprusinski@cementx.org

Chris Seymour  on January 13th, 2010

Jan,
First off, thanks for purchasing - I greatly appreciate it!
To answer your questions:
A) You need to add the search block to the page defaults. See more about this here:
http://www.concrete5.org/help/editing/scrapbook_defaults/
B) You can put a search title in there but it shouldnt show up because I removed the line in the code that displays it from the search block that comes bundled with CorporateAmerica.
C) It looks like you figured out how to add text to the text box in the header image on the home page. To remove it altogether you’d have to remove it from the home.php file within the theme’s directory.

Let me know if you still have any questions or need any other help.

-Chris

abbywalsh  on January 19th, 2010

Hi Chris-

I am a REAL beginner. Just downloaded your corporate design and I can’t open it because it saved in Adobe? Not sure why. I can’t find the packages file and can’t seem to upload it directly- host is hostmonster. Just looking for an easy way and maybe this is not for me? Help!

Chris Seymour  on January 19th, 2010

Abby,
First off thanks for purchasing!
By opening it do you mean unzipping it? You should just be able to download the theme_corporateamerica.zip file to your computer and then unzip it. Then, upload that whole unzipped folder (theme_corporateamerica) to the ‘packages’ directory in the root of your concrete5 install.

Feel free to email me directly at hello@c5mix.com if you have any more questions.

-Chris

heybill  on February 3rd, 2010

Chris,
I’m think of purchasing this theme however, the nav bar and much of the text seems unusually large. Can that be easily modified? I am new to C5 and this would be my first attempt and modifying a theme. - Thanks.
- Bill

Chris Seymour  on February 4th, 2010

Bill, yes it is very easy if you know CSS - just need to change the font sizes in the theme’s typography css file.

stephenpassion  on February 4th, 2010

Hi Chris,

Just purchased this template for a project I’m working on ( bought officespace a couple weeks back for another job ) & I’m wondering how difficult it is to change the custom font that the js calls. I want to use a more handdrawn font if possible.

Thanks in advance & keep up the good work with all the great templates.

Steve

Chris Seymour  on February 4th, 2010

Steve,
Hey, thanks for purchasing!
The theme uses cufon (http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/). So, you just need to create a new cufon font js file and place it in the theme’s js folder (theme_corporateamerica/themes/corporateamerica/js). Then, in the theme’s header.php file (theme_corporateamerica/themes/corporateamerica/elements/header.php) replace the link to the MankSans js file with your new one in line 25.

stephenpassion  on February 4th, 2010

Thanks a million Chris. I had figured out the Cufon bit but couldn’t figure out where it was called from.

Thanks again.
Steve

Medisoft Clinical  on February 14th, 2010

I’m considering buying this, but similar to the other poster, I want to know how to change the size of the graphic that is below the nav bar.

It appears to be 940px × 310px, what if my graphic is say 910 x 200?

Can you tell me which file to modify for this change?

Love the look of it in general though!

Chris Seymour  on February 16th, 2010

Kevin,
That is just an area in the theme where you can add any sized image to (actually any block for that matter). I would recommend putting an image there that is at least 940px wide though - that way it takes up the whole width (it might look a little weird if it doesnt) - but height doesnt matter.

Jonathan  on February 19th, 2010

Hello

I bought the themes OfficeSpace and CorporateAmerica for my company website and I am very happy with the result. Between the two themes I chose the latter “americancorporate”.
I want to know two things:
1 - Can I use the theme for another future officespace my site, why do not I’m now using
2 - I am Italian, the site is in Italian. How can I change the dates of the News that are displayed in English?
thanks

Chris Seymour  on February 21st, 2010

Jonathan, first off thanks for purchasing!
1. I’m not exactly sure if this is what you’re asking here, but if you purchased the single license for both themes you can use them on one domain/site. So, if you bought both for your current site and decided to use CorporateAmerica for that site, then you can still use OfficeSpace for another site (since you’re not using it for this site).
2. It uses the php date function (you can learn more about that here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php. You might also want to see this article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114488/php-date-function-output-in-italian.
You would need to change the function (< ?php echo date("F j, Y", strtotime($cobj->getCollectionDatePublic())); ?>) in a few files. First, you would need to change it in line 47 of news_article.php in the corporateamerica theme folder (theme_corporateamerica/themes/corporateamerica/news_article.php). Then, you’ll need to change it in the page list block templates (line 17 in view.php of theme_corporateamerica/blocks/page_list/templates/news_list and line 16 of view.php in theme_corporateamerica/blocks/page_list/templates/news_list_main).

Jonathan  on February 22nd, 2010

Hello Chris,
thanks for the answers. Try it now!
for the first request, I had activated the theme for my site omniservices.info, but after a few days, was released on CorporateAmerica theme that I liked more. So I bought the second issue and I’m currently using it.
So I know if I can use the theme “office” for a future site, having never actually used the theme.
Thanks

steveee  on February 28th, 2010

Hi Chris,
I bought your theme, love your work. A couple of questions for you please.

1. The menu isnt editable through the edit page facility, i have 7 menu items and it is wrapping onto the next line? Suggestions?
2. The menu is listing “Members” as an option, is it grabbing that from an option that I can change in admin?
3. Header top right is leaving a blue block behind, where can i change that?

Much Appreciated.
Steve.

Chris Seymour  on March 1st, 2010

Steve,
Thanks for the feedback and for purchasing!
1. Well, there’s a couple of options. First, if there’s some pages that you dont want to show in the nav you can check to ‘Exclude from Nav’ under the Page Properties->Custom Fields for that page - then it wont show up in the navigation (this should also answer question #2). Or, you could decrease the font size for the main nav. To do that you need to edit ‘font-size:1.8em;’ for the #nav ul li a declaration in line 97 of main.css in the corporateamerica theme folder.
2. See answer above
3. Well, if you dont want to put in a search block (or something else) there, look in red-blue.css in the css folder within the corporateamerica theme folder. Just delete line 10 where it says ‘background-color: #4E769D;’.

steveee  on March 8th, 2010

Hi Chris
Thanks for your excellent response. I noticed only after purchasing the Corporate America theme that you are doing 3 for 2, if I buy an additional theme from you any chance of the 3rd one for thev deal?

Kind Regards
Steve