This page has been configured as the home page. You can change the title. You can design the content area of the page (where these words and pictures are) to look however you want it to. Once you have the template installed on your own website you will have to write your own pages, but you can come back to this site to see how you can set things up.

Getting an image centered is sometimes difficult,
but for our purposes it is not always essential.

The news, notes and other postings (the typical “blog” content is on the “News/Updated” page. Typically these are shown on the front page of a blog, but this has been modified to make this home page more static. You can edit this (i.e. put the posts back on the front page such as we have on the Wilmington site) in the “Reading” area of the “Settings” tab, located in the upper right of the admin area.

You can also edit or delete the subtitle of the site (”The ___ Template Modified for a Starter Library Site”) by editing the “Tagline” field in the “General Settings” tab of the “Settings” area. The “Blog Title” field is where you would put the name of the site itself, such as “Wilmington E. M. Cooper Memorial Public Library”

Specific Details About This Theme

• This theme is Diary Notes. In the themes folder it has been modified and given the title LIBR Diary Notes.  It was designed as a dark theme, so that is why it is so dark brown.
• I have also made a modification that is less dark and more blue.  If you really like this them, we can play around with the colors a little bit to find something more attractive and less dark.
• There are 2 sidebars (smaller columns) with this theme.  Usually this is overkill for this kind of site, but by putting only an image or maybe very limited content in the center column this can be worked around, and can actually result in a less cluttered page.   As a note, the image of the library can be forced lower in that column if desired.
• The header picture is easy to change to suit your library.  The title color will then be adjusted to show up well on the image and go well with the theme’s color scheme.
• The header menu can be edited or deleted.  Certain pages can be excluded from appearing, but it is better to plan your page structure well to make navigation easy.