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A couple of days ago I was helping a friend set up his website using WordPress. He will be accepting payment for his services via PayPal. We created all the necessary buttons  and they all worked fine, except for the View Cart Button. It would always give us the following error:

We were unable to decrypt the certificate id

 

This is an update to a previous post where I explained how to “tweak” an Artisteer theme to add a Flash header.

Two things have happened since I wrote that post. First, the plugin used to create the Flash header – Flash Fader Revived – has been removed from WordPress, nowhere to be found. Second, starting with release 2.4, Artisteer has incorporated the Flash header capability into the software. What this means is that now you don’t have to “tweak” any files to add a Flash header to your theme. On the other hand, now you have to provide a Flash “movie” to be displayed in the header area.

After a lot of research I finally found an easy way to insert a flash header into an Artisteer WordPress theme. To see an example of the finished product click here. NOTE: I have only tested this procedure with templates with a square top and no padding.

Step 1 – Create a template using Artisteer. After saving and exporting the template, go to the exported directory (the directory with the WordPress files generated by Artisteer).

Step 2 – Open the file “style.css” and search for the word “header”. You should find a block of code like this one:

Hello everybody,

I have created a video tutorial on how to create a custom background for Artisteer. This custom background can be used when creating a WordPress template to be used when creating a website.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

To learn more secrets, click on the link Make a Website using WordPress.

Today we will look into creating custom templates for a WordPress theme created with Artisteer. These themes are used when creating websites, to change the look and feel of the site.

What are templates?

Templates are basically variations on the layout of your default theme. You use custom templates when you want a page to look different from the rest of the other pages on your website or blog. When building or creating a website, you need to think on the layout first. For example, when I created this website I needed the home page to be the whole width of the page, with no sidebars on either side.