[Greg Acuna]

Hi All,

We’re creating a site for kids to help get them involved in our Educational Gaming platform “Planet Earthlings.” I want to create a fully animated custom page using parallax effect. Want to do something like http://www.exsus.com/highway-one-roadtrip or http://www.spaceneedle.com/home/ though not nearly so sophisticated.

I’m studying building a custom WordPress theme, slicing the images, etc, but I want to know is:

Is it going to be difficult to have a custom home page and then use the standard Commons-in-a-Box theme for the rest of the site?

Thanks in advance for any input or assistance.

Cheers, Greg

[Christian Wach]

Hi Greg, there are a couple of approaches that you could try.

If you’re going to create your own page template, you can do so using a CBOX child theme. You would create your custom template in the child theme and either (a) apply it to the existing homepage or (b) define a new page based on that template as your homepage.

There also seem to be a number of plugins that offer this functionality but I would still recommend using a CBOX child theme so you can adjust the style of their output appropriately.

Cheers, Christian

[Greg Acuna]

Thanks Christian…I’ll definitely try it as you’ve suggested. Design is looking quite cool. Sure hope we can integrated it seamlessly into the CBOX site.

All the best, Greg

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