Thank you for downloading the 9th sphere Current WordPress Theme. ************************************************************************************ This Read Me file contains: 1. License 2. Installation Instructions 3. Tips 4. Contact Information ************************************************************************************ 1. LICENSE We grant you non-exclusive limited license to use website templates, skins, WordPress Themes / Templates and other products in accordance with these Terms and Conditions (the "license") issued by our company. All templates and skins will retain a copyright, link to www.9thsphere.com and our logo at the footer of every page and must remain clearly visible at all times. This cannot be removed. We will contact the hosts of any users violating these terms, requesting your website be taken down immediately under the DCMA act. Furthermore, removing our copyright notice will forfeit your rights to any support or upgrades. Exclusive rights to a design will mean no further copies of that design will be sold and it will be removed from our website. a) IMAGERY, CLIPART'S AND FONTS All imagery, clip art and fonts used in our templates are royalty-free and are the integral part of our products. You can use imagery, clip art and fonts to develop the website you have installed the template on only. Any kind of separate usage or distribution is prohibited. b) UNAUTHORIZED USE You may not place any of our products, modified or unmodified, on a diskette, CD, website or any other medium and offer them for redistribution or resale of any kind without prior written consent from our company. c) OWNERSHIP You may not claim intellectual or exclusive ownership to any of our products, modified or unmodified. You may not Sell, Resell or provide any installation services regarding our skins and modifications without our prior written consent. Any person or company found Selling, Reselling or providing any services in relation to our Skins and Modifications will be liable to legal action with any profit made from such sales returned to us. All products are property of 9th sphere. Our products are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event shall our juridical person be liable for any damages including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or other losses arising out of the use of or inability to use our products. 2. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: Note: This theme has been built for WordPress 2.5.1, and has been tested on version 2.3.3. a. Unzip 9ths_Current.zip to a local folder on your hard drive. All the files necessary for the theme will be inside a folder called "9ths_Current", which you will see after you unzip the orginal file. b. Upload the folder and all its contents to the following folder of your WordPress installation: (your-website-url)/wp-content/themes (your-website-url) would be replaced with the actual location of your WordPress installation. The result should be a folder as follows: (your-website-url)/wp-content/themes/9ths_Current which will have all the necessary files for the theme inside it. Be sure to include the root folder called "9ths_Current", otherwise you will have to create a folder with your own custom name, and upload everything inside the folder to your newly created folder. c. Alternatively, you may upload everything inside the "9ths_Current" folder into one of the already existing theme folders (e.g. "default") and this will overwrite the theme contained in that folder. (Use this option with caution as this will overwrite the theme inside that folder.) d. When all the files are completely uploaded to your server, log in to your WordPress dashboard and click on "Design". The "9ths Current" theme should now appear in your theme list. Simply select it, and it will instantly take effect as the current theme of your blog. (See also http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Adding_New_Themes) ************************************************************************************ 3. TIPS Points to keep in mind when implementing this theme on your site: OUR CSS STYLES ********************** - The 9th sphere Current WordPress theme was created with our own custom CSS style sheet. We have disabled many of the default WordPress styles that originally appear in the style.css and rtl.css files. - The orignal CSS files have essentially been replaced by our own CSS file, which includes a "CSS reset", to assist cross-browser compatibility. We have left the rtl.css file in the root folder of the theme, so any of those styles can be applied by simply cutting and pasting them into our style sheet (style.css), preferably at the bottom of the style.css file. THE PHP LOOP AND "FIRST" CLASS ********************************************* - We've included a class in the CSS file called "first", along with a PHP Loop in the HTML, to identify the first post on any given page, and applies a different background image to it. This is necessary to preserve the look of the theme. This class is created dynamically using the PHP Loop. The loop appears in index.php, archive.php, and single.php. The loop is commented wherever it appears. - The PHP loop mentioned above can also be used to add other content (such as ads) to the area below or above the first post, or even to add content above or below another specific post in the list, depending on how you modify the PHP. EXTRA "PAGES" ARE LIMITED ************************************* - In addition to adding "posts" (which are just blog posts), WordPress allows users to create "pages", which become separate entries apart from the blog posts. In our theme, those pages are listed near the top, below the header, to the right of the "home" link. Depending on the length of the title for those pages, you may only be able to add about 5-7 "pages", otherwise the navigation bar will fill up and the links on the far right will be hidden from view. This will cause the links to be unseen, but will not break the layout. ************************************************************************************ 4. CONTACT INFORMATION If you have any questions or comments, or require assistance in debugging a problem with this theme, please use the contact information below to get in touch with us and we'll do our best to assist you: 9th sphere (a division of Etalco Limited) http://www.9thsphere.com 100 York Blvd., Suite 228 Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1J8 Canada local > 905.709.2991 email > info@9thsphere.com