Thanks everyone for the great comments. I appreciated the feed backs.
@andrea_garay2005
There’s several ways to achieve a site like this depending how in-depth you are with CSS, HTML, and PHP.
There’s lots of tutorials on this forums that will give you step-by-step instructions on how to create custom menus and to style it.
1. http://www.prasannasp.net/
2. http://www.joshlobe.com/
3. http://bookblog.kjodle.net/
4. http://blog.kjodle.net/
As far as plugins:
Firs things first, create a child theme. If your not sure how download this plugin and read instructions: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-click-child-theme/.
Then you are ready to start styling your new Child themed Website.
I use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/content-slide/ To achieve the top banner, it rotates images with faded effect, and you add as many as you like. You’ll have to add a bit of PHP coding to your header.php in order for it to work, all explanations are in that link.
Sidebar widgets are endless. For example for my events feed I use Google Calendar, I downloaded this pluging http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-calendar-events/
it takes the feed from Google and posts it on your sidebar widgets with different looks. Also customizable CSS.
Facebook widget here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
Add this social sharing: http://www.addthis.com/
Photo Gallery: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
Contact Form: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/
There’s thousands of plugins out there you’ll just have to see which one works for you. It’s a lot of trial and error, and lots of reading and learning if your new at this. But in the end it’s worth it. Hope this helps thanks again!
