My Favorite Twenty Eleven Display Hacks

Make it yours! This talk is about my favorite display hacks to make a great-looking custom business website in a child theme. Image logo, better page layout, change placement of menus, add extra menus and homepage widget areas… things can get quite nifty, if you’re willing to play with it a bit.

Twenty Eleven is a great starting point. Rather than create a new theme from scratch, you can take advantage of the built-in functionality by creating a child theme of Twenty Eleven. BUT it’s characteristic look, header and wide open spaces are not great for, well, most applications. We’ll step through some useful techniques to transform it into a great business site. Mobile-friendly and browser testing issues will also be addressed.

Beginner to intermediate, basic HTML/CSS knowledge suggested.