This is the lead story. It´s the first thing that catches your visitors eyes. Always the most recent post from the “News” category (or whatever category you define) will be displayed.

You can add an image like this one by just using the standard WP uploader in the write post panel. Once you have attached the image to the post it will be automaticallly placed and croped to the pre-defined dimensions. There is nothing else you need to do. Only the excerpt of the article will be printed here for space reasons. You can also use an optional excerpt like I did here to have more control of the layout if you like to.

The very nice image overlay script prettyPhoto is included in the theme. Image links will automatically get a rel=”prettyPhoto” attribute and will be opened in a nice Layer. Klick on the image below to see the effect. If you want to use another lightbox plugin (like Fancybox) you can simply deactivate prettyPhoto right from the

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BranfordMagazine comes with an options page that makes it pretty easy to setup you theme exactly to meet your requirements. You don´t need to touch a single line of code. So even for non-coders and html-newbies it is possible to get a quick start. This is just dummytext. But I must explain to you how

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BranfordMagazine makes use of the famous 960 grid system. The 960 grid system is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. The 12-column grid which is used for this theme is divided into portions that are 60 pixels wide. Each column has 10

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