Introduction Please take the time to read through the instructions and take notice of the instructions listed here, as many support related questions can be answered simply by re-reading these instructions. 1. Theme Installation Read these instructions carefully, because the installation of this theme is made in a way a little different than any other theme for wordpress First of all to install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information in regard to installing the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex - http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress Upload the theme and enable it. The theme files can be uploaded in two ways: (RECCOMANDED) FTP Upload: Using your FTP program, upload the non-zipped theme folder into the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your server WordPress Upload: Navigate to Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload. Go to browse, and select the zipped theme folder (you have to zip it if you want to use this way). Hit “Install Now” and the theme will be uploaded and installed. Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate your chosen theme. 4. Template Customization 4.1 Setting Up The Top & Footer Navigation To setup your navigation, navigate to Appearance > Menus. and create two new menus and name theme "Top" & "Footer" respectively and build it up using the available widgets. You can add a variety of items including pages, categories, custom links. To extend the available widgets, click the screen options tab at the very top of the screen and configure your options. Once you have built and saved your menu, simply select the theme location using the widget on the left. Under “Top menu” & "Footer Menu", select your custom menu from the dropdown list to use it as the site’s top & footer navigation. For more informations about WordPress menus read this http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel 4.2 Setting Up The Blog To set up the blog, you must create a new page, you can do so by navigating to Pages > Add New. You can give this page a title of “blog” and click “Publish”. Once you have created your new page, navigate to Settings > Reading and configure the "Posts page:" setting. Select the static page option and choose the page you just created as your front page. Now you can navigate to Posts > Add New and start publishing posts. Each post now will appear into the blog page. back to top 4. Custom Theme Options Many of the theme basic styling can be changed from Theme Options under Appearances. Theme Options has been divided into 2 major sections, General and Typography. General Options includes: Header: Custom Logo: You can upload your custom logo for the theme. Slider Options: You have various options to add/edit/remove images, caption and anchor links for slider. Footer: Google Analytic Code: Copy paste your google analytic code. Typography Options includes: Body: Font Size: Set base font size for your theme. Font Color: Set font color for theme. Line Height: Set line height for theme. Font Family: Set the font family for theme. Anchor Link: Anchor Link Color: Set the link color. Anchor Link Hover Color: Set the link hover color. Anchor Link Visited Color: Set the link visited color. Anchor Link Decoration: Set link decoration. It can be either none or underline. Headings (h1,h2,h3...): Font Color: Set font color for headings H1 Font Size: Set font size for h1 element. H2 Font Size: Set font size for h2 element. H3 Font Size: Set font size for h3 element. H4 Font Size: Set font size for h4 element. H5 Font Size: Set font size for h5 element. H6 Font Size: Set font size for h6 element.