The NSP Two theme is available from Northstreetproductions.

This is the very first theme modification for one of NorthStreetProductions’ themes. I have been watching and admiring Sam’s work from afar and recently decided his themes held great BannerZest potential. I approached Sam with the idea and he jumped on board. I think his use of semi-transparent areas in his themes make them some of the most eye-catching themes available.

The instructions are as follows:

Make your Bannerzest banner width you select for the page in the Styles menu.
For heights, use these guidelines based on the look you want to achieve:
Normal height - banner stops above the navigation buttons: 140px.
Taller height - banner extends to benind the navigation buttons: 185px

HINT: I rounded the corners of the banner just a bit to match the layout of the theme.

Publish the site and reveal the HTML
Publish


Publish the Bannerzest theme to its place on your server and select "Show HTML" (see Publish at right)




Copy Bannerzest's code to the clipboard
Copy

When you click this button, you'll be presented with another window (see Copy at right)






Use Textwrangler to open index.html
TextWrangler

Now we have the necessary code copied to our clipboard. The final step is to open the theme's index.html file with the text editor you've selected and paste the code in the correct location. To open this file, right click the theme in Rapidweaver's theme drawer, choose "Reveal Theme Contents In Finder...". This will present you with a folder called "Contents". Open it and you will find the index.html file. Right click on this file and navigate to your chosen text editor application. In this example I chose TextWrangler. (see Textwrangler at right)



paste code here
Paste here


Scroll through the code until you find a place that matches that shown in the photo (see Paste here at right) The code you copied from Bannerzest is still on your clipboard. You want to paste it in the right spot. I think this theme developer anticipated us coming here because there is a place made just for us! Place your cursor right after the "div" with the id of "banner". Just paste in the code from Bannerzest by either choosing edit>Paste from TextWrangler's menu or simply by pressing the Apple-v key combination (command-v). Now that your code is inserted, save the file and view the results.

Remember, when you use this technique and publish your site, send me a link so I can put your site in the showcase!

This is the first of the theme modifications for a NorthStreetProductions’ theme and I hope we have many more to come!