Vizmayatech SmallBiz_3 Theme documentation
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Please visit www.vizmayatech.com to see this theme in action.
Please note that there could be slight differences between the theme that you downloaded
and the one at www.vizmayatech.com, since the themes are under continous development and enhancement.
Also, the website may use different images compared to the theme.


Theme Objective:
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I developed this theme to render a small business look to the website. This will be useful
for web developers who do not want to have their website look like a blog, but at the same time
want to use Wordpress.

Features:
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* 3 column design.

  Left column : This is for navigation links, but in fact the theme lists the categories here. The categories will not be
  explicitely listed as 'categories', but would appear as links to various sections of the website. You can also insert ad
  banners here if you wish.

  Centre column : The real contents of the website.

  Right column : Primarily for ads. But you could place anything here, such as links to specific articles,
  images etc. The height of the column automatically grows with the content. You can also place other wordpress
  items such as archives, recent comments etc, though it could defeat the purpose of this theme - which is not to
  look like a blog.

* Static pages for Home, About and Contact

* Very simple layout : Usual blog items such as archives, comment lists are intentionally omitted, so that the space could be used
  for ads and other smallbiz content.


Plugins required :
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The theme can be enhanced with some external plugins. You will need to install and activate them from your Wordpress
'Plugin Management'for this theme to work in its original style.

1. Static Front Page Plugin : Use the Static Front Page Plugin (http://www.semiologic.com/projects/static-front/) to
set any Page as the "home page" of your site. This plugin modifies the home page query and returns the Page
with a Page slug of "home" to the front page.

2. Customizable Post Listings : This is used to give a recent article listing on the home page.
The plugin is available at http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/
This is optional - if you add this plugin, then you get a list of recent 25 articles in your home page.
Note that if you have not installed static Front Page Plugin, then article listings do not work either, since
the listing is done only if the page is of "Home" type.

Installation
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- Upload the vizmayatech theme folder to your themes folder which probably is wp-content/themes/.
- Activate the theme from Wordpress presentation admin panel.
- You may replace vizmayatech_bizblue_3/images/header_banner.jpg with your own header banner. The size of the image
should be 815(width)x120(height).
- You should replace references to the static ad images with actual ads or your own images or other items.
In index.php file, search for "right_image.jpg" and read instuctions in that section on how to replace it with your
own content. Similarly, search for "ad_banner.jpg" in header.php and footer.php and read those sections to replace
with your own ad banner.
- Install the plugins as detailed above.
- Create the home Page with page slug as "home". This should be created using "Write Page" option.
- Create the "About" and "Contact" Pages. These should be created using "Write Page" option. Once you create these pages,
go to Manage->Pages and look for the 'ID' of these pages. Now open the header.php file and search for
"Links to static pages". Replace the page_id=x with the correct ID against 'About' and 'Contact'. Your links to
static pages should be working now. Yo can add more navigation links if you wish.


License
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SmallBiz_3 is licensed under GPL license, meaning you can modify it freely but if you choose to re-release it,
the license has to stay the same and you have to credit all authors that have worked on the theme before.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


Do I provide support ?
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I will be glad to fix bugs and add minor enhancements if time permits. But all feedbacks are
appreciated and thanks in advance !


For feedback or questions, visit www.vizmayatech.com and look for "Wordpress Themes & Plugins" link or
search for 'SmallBiz_3'. Please submit your comments/questions under the article page.