Remove rotating image and make Thesis 2 columns?

[cognoscente]

I've been following Chris' blog for awhile, hoping to see him announce that he was taking on client projects, but the day has yet to come, so I took the plunge and will be using the Thesis theme for a new blog.

What drew me to Thesis was the outstanding use of typography and whitespace, along with all the other perks of course. However, I'm more of a two column kind of guy... I found this thread about making a single column page: http://diythemes.com/forums/thesis-c...hp.html#post52 and was wondering if there was someway to make the theme two columns. I guess more like Pearsonified in terms of number of columns and their respective widths.

My next question is also a stretch... Is it possible to remove the rotating image all together?

[ehab]

To remove the video/rotating image box


Remove these lines of code from the right_side.php file

<?php
		if (thesis_use_video_box()) {
?>
			<div id="video_box">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/video_box.php'); ?>
			</div>
<?php
		}
		else {
?>
			<div id="image_box">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/rotating_images.php'); ?>
			</div>
<?php
		}
?>

and of course, it is possible to make it a 2 column theme, you have to decide the total width of your site, remove the sidebar2.php and then edit your CSS file accordingly.

[diythemes]

cognoscente,

Once I've finished version 0.4 of Thesis (which may be called 1.0), I will release a 2-column version that is completely optimized for that type of spatial layout. The reason I want to wait is because the next version will offer an in-dashboard options panel that will solve a lot of customization issues. It will flat out be a better product, and I want to wait to scale out (to new themes) until I've nailed the underlying framework.

The good news is that I'm well on my way, and I should have all this figured out before the end of the month.

[ehab]

*end of the month* *eeks*

I was planning on waiting till the final release until I began to work on the customization. I hope the dimensions remain the same, else I would have to re-think and re-do a whole lot of slicing and cssing

[boyohazard]

Originally Posted by ehab

...else I would have to re-think and re-do a whole lot of slicing and cssing

custom.css is your friend

[diythemes]

So are user-defined WordPress functions.