Theme Name: Gallery, a Thematic child theme
Theme URI:
http://www.chris-wallace.com/2009/06...-1-2-released/
Description: The ultimate gallery-style Thematic child theme for WordPress.
Author: Chris Wallace
Author URI:
http://chris-wallace.com
Template: thematic
Version: 1.2.1
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This work, like WordPress, is released under GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL).
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Overall simple theme but would take some time to actually recreate
Tools Needed:
- Brain
- Flash
- Knowledge of CSS, JavaScript & PHP
The layout actually follows the CSS Box Model. Basically there are 5 rows. Without looking at the stylesheet (because its a WP theme and the div names are like a million miles long)
the 5 rows are:
header, flash, content, ads, footer
The box model (in short) looks something like this:
Code:
<div class=contentwrapper>
<div class=header></div>
<div class=flash></div>
<div class=content></div>
<div class=ad></div>
</div>
<div class=footer></div>
The PHP and Flash portions are a little more complicated to explain than that. The overall CSS layout can probably be recreated in less than 5 minutes. The actual content that goes into each row will take a little more time.
As for the numbers are the bottom of the "flash" and "content" rows, that's known as Pagination
You can probably Google some scripts to help you get started, or learn how to create your own
You'll notice that just about everything on the web that holds more data than the page can display has some form of Pagination.
Each little box in the "content" row is put into a section. Javascript is used to control the little star ratings at the top of each video game.
As far as everything else - the video games are probably stored in a database and accessed through PHP
Creating a mySQL database, accessing, editing, deleting and adding to that data is very easy to do; but it would still take some time to create the data in the database
I dont know how this person got access to all this video game information, but if YOU personally were recreating and managing this data, you might be able to create your database and code up your own filter that reads information from a website and adds that information to your database (intermediate/advanced level of experience needed)
Anyway, hope that helped
