Reply To: Noob Alert: Need Help Replicating "Demo Site Home Page" Look

I’ll jump in here to help out 🙂

Please correct me if I’m wrong but are you asking how to make your homepage look exactly like the demo – http://demo.appfinite.com/optimal/ ? If so, all you need to do is add widgets to any of the “home widget areas” and it will automatically show up. This theme is designed to show blog posts on the homepage if the widget areas are empty…..but as soon as you do the regular homepage will show just like the demo.

If you’re trying to add more customizations to the homepage on top of what is already there, then yes you would have to use PHP in order to make the edits, since that’s what everything is built on.  If you need to hire a developer to make theme customizations just let me know.

For your last question (Goal 3):  Yes you can edit the css to show a different background…you’ll want to look for “.slider-wrap” and you should see the background color and image. To remove that background image and add a color you can edit this –

.slider-wrap {
background-color: #F5F5F5;
background-image: url("images/slider-bg.png");
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

The background image itself is actually a png transparent file so it covers the entire slider area, but only appears to stop half way on the demo. So once you remove that and add a color instead it will still reach the bottom like normal.