Using 2nd wp theme simultaneously and shifting blog to /blog

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So. I've been considering something for a while and it's been encouraged by a few clients and people in the know.

What I'd l like is to get a wordpress theme I have my eye on which runs full screen and nice....

But of course I already run a wp theme for my site. I'd like what is currently online to be my blog, and not the home page.

I'd like the new wp theme to run as my home page and have a link to BLOG which would go to the current home url damianbrownphotography. So maybe it'd become /blog and the home url would be the new wp theme.

Of course that means a second installation of wordpress as well as fiddling with the home url. Any thoughts? I know a bunch of you have similar so would be able to give me a bit of an idiots guide. I'm assuming once the theme is installed it's pretty easy to deal with (I'm only getting one that is well supported and reviewed so shouldn't have any issues there)

Another question is what dims do you do your full screen images at? I've seen some pretty soft full screen websites on the whole so it'd be good to get it right first time! I guess it'd be similar to a large screen 1980x1600 or even just 1024x720 etc
 
I'm googling at the moment actually. Hadn't found that link yet though so thanks
 
What's wrong with using a second install of Wordpress into another directory and linking to it from a menu. My website is Joomla and I run a wordpress blog just in a subdirectory, so it's Site/Blog as the url format.
 
I don't see anything wrong with that idea. Just a bit of a newbie when it comes to doing that :) From my research it is/was definitely one of the options!
 
Byker28i said:
What's wrong with using a second install of Wordpress into another directory and linking to it from a menu. My website is Joomla and I run a wordpress blog just in a subdirectory, so it's Site/Blog as the url format.
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Why have the overhead of a second install if you can achieve the same thing using a single installation?
 
Could you not just tweak the index.html part of your theme, to be how you want the home page to look as Wordpress themes have different pages for all the post types etc.
 
ST8 said:
Why have the overhead of a second install if you can achieve the same thing using a single installation?
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Great minds think alike!
 
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