Qdos landscape's site is to show clients what they can do for them. The design is simple, beautiful and simple to navigate. The garden images are displayed in a manner that's graphically pleasing and easy to view.
Portfolio Photos
The landscaper wanted to display their work and WordPress is just perfect for presenting images in a pleasing way.
Splash Page
The front page, or Splash page, as they are called was not to use any of the pages. Rather the front page was to be invisible to show the full screen image of one of the gardens. This proved bit of challenge. It worked fine for every browser except Internet Explorer 8 and even version 9.
Creating a front splash page for Qdos Landscape. The front page, or Splash page, as they are called was not to use any of the pages. Rather the front page was to be invisible to show the full screen image of one of the gardens.
This proved to be a bit of challenge.WordPress uses themes which control the look of the whole site. For the default "front" page you have the choice of showing a page or a blog.
For this site the front page was to show the background image only. I made the front show a page, but even with no text it showed a large white rectangle hiding the background. I could have made the background transparent but there might have been some artefacts spoiling the view.
Making the Template
After some research using Google I created a template for the theme. To create the template, start with an empty text file and enter the following at the top:
<?php /* Template Name: Splash2 * The template for the splash screen, ie background image only. * Based on header.php * * Displays all of the <head> section and everything up till <div id="main"> * */ ?>
This template is called Splash2. To use the template copy it to /wp-content/themes/<your theme folder>.
Using the Template
Once copied go back to the dashboard and edit the front page. Under Page Attributes select your new template using the drop box.
The template can now be edited to get the look required. First I copied the page.php contents. It worked fine for every browser except Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9. I suspected that some tags were not being closed off. So rather than use get_header() I grabbed the contents of header.php and modified that, checking that all tags were closed.
Change of Domain Owner
As of May 2015 this site is no longer online. Interestingly an online shoe shop had taken over the domain name of www.qdoslandscape.com.au! Again it's a non existent domain.
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