WordPress.com Forums » Tag: civil war - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/civil-war WordPress.com Forums » Tag: civil war - Recent Posts en Sat, 25 May 2013 18:14:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 caramelsmoothie on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1217267 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:02:47 +0000 caramelsmoothie 1217267@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks so much Raincoaster and to everyone else in this thread! I have a clearer understanding now of what I need to do! Hopefully, I can look back on this thread in a couple of months to a year and laugh at how clueless I am right now! LOL!!!!!!

]]> raincoaster on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1217255 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:47:31 +0000 raincoaster 1217255@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's correct. It's your Sidebar and you can look up how to use Widgets to customize it here in the Support documents: http://support.wordpress.com/

]]> caramelsmoothie on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1217233 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:11:37 +0000 caramelsmoothie 1217233@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks Raincoaster. I checked out the Kubrick theme and I DO see the similar structure that I am looking for! I am assuming that I can customize the right side bar to include information pertaining to the museum and would not be stuck with the Archives, Meta and Categories that are currently listed on the theme correct?

]]> raincoaster on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1217214 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:49:31 +0000 raincoaster 1217214@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's great but all it is is a site with a custom header and old-timey colours. You can do that on virtually any theme here, though you might start with Kubrick. It is literally the oldest theme we have.

]]> caramelsmoothie on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1217190 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:09:25 +0000 caramelsmoothie 1217190@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks everyone. I found a site similar to what I am trying to build that has the exact same look I am going for, although it seems the site is having some alignment issues as it pertains to the placement of the navigation tabs. I've left a message for the designer of the site asking what theme if any she used for this site and am waiting for them to call me back, but I thought I'd post it here just in case:

http://www.wbhsm.org/

The black background, with the earth tone and historical photos plastered against it, and I also like the fact that the content is squeezed in the middle and does not take up the entire screen. This is exactly the look I am going for.

]]> auxclass on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1215966 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:56:33 +0000 auxclass 1215966@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Not sure it's a good match for you but I use Vostok on a site that I am putting photos to make it sort of just a history site - it is gray mostly - but no header image (or I did not add one - can't remember for sure)

]]> caramelsmoothie on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1215964 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:55:55 +0000 caramelsmoothie 1215964@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Unlusoycan,

As I stated in my initial post, I HAVE looked there as well as all over the web and have not found a theme that matches what I am looking for. I don't want to put the impression out there that I am just looking for answers without putting in the effort of looking for it myself, I have been doing that. I figured I had nothing to lose by posting the description of what I am looking for just in case someone else knew of a theme such as what I am looking for. Thanks for those links I will check them out for sure!

Justpi, thanks for the tip! This helps me in determining what can be changed vs. what cannot to suit my needs.

]]> justpi on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1215949 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:48:53 +0000 justpi 1215949@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Don't be misled by the default appearance of the demos: most themes allow you to change the background color or add a background image, and/or add a header image.

]]> unlusoycan on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1215939 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:44:28 +0000 unlusoycan 1215939@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello,

Please check http://theme.wordpress.com/ yourself. There are 220 themes, and you can change your idea while you are looking over them.

Anyway, I can recommend ChaoticSoul, Black-LetterHead, Modularity Lite

]]> caramelsmoothie on "Historical Theme with a southern/country feel to it. Does it exist?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/historical-theme-with-a-southerncountry-feel-to-it-does-it-exist#post-1215885 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:07:31 +0000 caramelsmoothie 1215885@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi everybody,

I am embarking on my first attempt at building a site using a wordpress theme. I am building a site for a historical museum that displays civil war and african american artifacts. The museum is located in the southern part of the US. I have been trying to no avail to find a theme that has a black background with red and brown colors that evokes this civil war/early Black Americana feel that you can often see in pictures from 1800s into the early 20th century. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can locate such a theme? I have zero experience at all with this type of stuff so I pose my question to the WP community. Thanks.

]]> raincoaster on "So, no takers for Biafra or MV Isonzo!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/so-no-takers-for-biafra-or-mv-isonzo#post-491277 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:05:23 +0000 raincoaster 491277@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You are being unrealistic. Let me put it this way: how many bloggers' questions have YOU answered in those three weeks? You need to do outreach, and Facebook is the best place to find an answer like that.

]]> kcryeland on "So, no takers for Biafra or MV Isonzo!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/so-no-takers-for-biafra-or-mv-isonzo#post-491166 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:00:59 +0000 kcryeland 491166@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well, it's three weeks since I asked if there was anyone out there who was in Biafra or on the vessel MV Isonzo in 1967, and as of today no one has come forward to admit to it. I realise that you have to pretty ancient to have experienced these things and that it's mainly young people who use these sites, so maybe I was being too optimistic?
OK, so ask your father, uncle, mother, aunt or even your grandparents, especially if they were in the Peace Corps or Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) There were two or three thousand Europeans in Eastern Nigeria before the civil war, many were British, but there was a large group of Americans too. Ask around, you may be surprised at what your parents/grandparents got up to in their youth!

]]> kcryeland on "Expatriates on the MV Isonzo July 1967" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/expatriates-on-the-mv-isonzo-july-1967#post-485582 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:57:24 +0000 kcryeland 485582@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OK, as of today no one has indicated they were in Biafra during 1967 (see Expatriates in Biafra Circa 1967) Does anyone know of someone who was evacuated from Biafra on the Italian ship MV Isaonzo? I have written about my evacuation on this ship and since it is now exactly 43 years to the month, I think it would be nice to exchange views with someone who was there too. There were over 800 of us and I am sure some are still around. Was it your grandfather, great uncle or distant cousin? Let's hear from you. Contact details at http://africantales.wordpress.com.

]]> kcryeland on "Expatriates in Biafra Circa 1967?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/expatriates-in-biafra-circa-1967#post-484079 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:12:38 +0000 kcryeland 484079@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Are there any expatriates out there who were in Biafra (Eastern Nigeria) at the time it seceded from the Federation of Nigeria in 1967? Alternatively do you know anyone; friend, relative or acquaintance who may have been there in commerce, government service, with the VSOs (Voluntary Service Overseas) or the Peace Corps? I would like to make contact and exchange experiences. I have written a book (an autobiographical account of my time in Biafra) and you can see samples of it on my pages http://africantales.wordpress.com. There is also a contact facility should anyone wish to tell me about their time in Biafra.

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