About me : My name is Eric J. Schwarz, I was born in Illinois twenty-two years ago and still live in the same town today. I like to think of myself as an adventurer, a sort of modern day cowboy. I seek small fortunes out in the great game of geocaching, I mountain bike every Sunday, and go to my local gym to boulder during the week. I legally off-road as much as I can in my Jeep Grand Cherokee, which is about once a month or so. I play adult Ice Hockey around Woodridge, IL on the team Maniacs, we won the championship last season. And coming up summer 2010 I plan to drive a lap around Lake Michigan, where I will raft the wolf-river in WI, Backpack in Porcupine Mountains located in upper Michigan, then put my Jeep on ferry to get to Drummond Island for some off-roading, and finally end the trip with climbing some boulders before I head home in celebration of my birthday.
Website Design : I have been building websites since 2005. I’m self taught and I have a passion for website design. For me, I believe that web design is not coding, but something to be thought of as a work of art. I create my works-of-art using HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Photoshop, Filezilla, and WordPress.
I am available for freelance work and will be excited to work on your project! You can contact me using the form located here.
Till the next Adventure,
Schwarttzy
just purchased adventure plus, great theme!
-how can can I change the post background, I’d like it to be the same as the sidebar and the menu background?
-how do I change the post font color?
-Also how can I make the sidebar a bit wider and the post more narrow?
Appreciate your help.
All the theme options are in the located under “Appearance” in your WordPress admin panel. As of right now you can’t change the width of sidebar but that will be in the next big update. As for changing sidebar background to the menu back ground that is some quick CSS coding I can do for you. I plan to include changing the sidebar menu background too soon.
Thank you. I’d like to change the post background to be the same as the sidebar background. I’d appreciate your help.
Hi Eric, your WordPress Adventure is really impressive. Maybe I should buy one for my website…
Thanks for your complement and over all interest in supporting my efforts.
would love to change the colors of the post background and the menu bar at the bottom… how do I do that?
The newest version of Adventure+ does just that, and if the options aren’t what your looking for I’ll send you a new copy. I’m working out the kinks in my new shopping cart, so go to downloads and get the 2.0 version.
I have been using the plugin “Better Backgrounds” to allow random background photos but it appears it doesn’t work with your Adventure 1.4.6 Theme. I’d love to see them work together since I love the translucent menus but want the random backgrounds. I’ve not be able to figure out on my own how to make these two play nice and any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
I’ll look into it
Eric, I love your theme, and have decided to use it. I am new to word press, creating my site. However, I am unable to change the color of the footer that caries the menu (The color doesn’t blend with my site). I have went inside the editor under footer and that didn’t help. Please, lead me down the road to solving my color issue. Thanks, Greg
To do that you need to change the image “Bars.png”
Hi Eric. I liked very much your theme and I am using your theme at my site. I am using WPML to translate my site and I am getting your theme ready to be translated by that. I wonder if you don´t want to get those modifications to upgrade your theme and make it translatable using gettext functions (that’s what I am doing). Tell me if you want it, because I am using 1.4.2 but to add those changes to your development it would be better to work on the newer version.
From what I have seen, as you are a theme developer, wpml.org gives you a free account to use and test their plugin. You just have to register there. I´ve seen people above trying to translate it to French and German. I will do to French and Brazilian Portuguese.
Regards, Carlos.
Sorry to take so long to decided on this but I couldn’t make my mind up until now. I like the idea of this code and would for my theme to be translated in as many languages as possible, but I really pride myself with the cleanest and lightest written code out there. If you look at the number of pages and code I use it is very minimal come paired to other WordPress Themes, which is why I do not want to add WPML to it right now.
Now the upside to this is that if anyone want me to quick add in there language I will do this for free all the have to do is ask.
Hey, I’m using your Adventure 1.4.2 theme, and I’m looking for a good Twitter plugin. I’ve tried using the Twitter app from Twitter, but it floats outside of the right hand column. Thoughts/suggestions?
I haven’t used any of the twitter plugins yet but I try make one work.
Let me know what you come up with. I’ve found 1 or 2 that work, but they’re pretty basic and boring.
Still trying to get to it… just so busy.
Hi Eric, i wanted to put an adsense on your theme, can you suggest a good plugin for it? thanks so much!
I just updated the theme and now I have some trouble again. I can not see the titel of my blog and the menu on the bottom of the page also looks terrible.
I have no idea what to do??
1.4.3 Address the this with IE 6 Menu bar problems
Hi, I also love this template, but after upgrading to the latest version today, when listing a category it no longer shows images in the listed posts. I liked it better before. How can I get this back?
To do this you I would have to change the code, but there is a new feature for “featured images” in the post.
Thanks Schwarttzy, I have tried the featured image option but it does not help me in the way I want it to work. Is there a chance I can download the previous version somewhere, or is it available from you? Im not good at programming!
Spent some time and thought about it and a new version is up using the similar old code. Featured Images is still use able.
Hi, Love the theme! I was able to add my own background, only since I am using my blog for my photos, I thought even the background should be my own.
I do have one question though, is it possible to move the title bar to the top of the screen rather than having it at the bottom?
It is but you have to change the code to do so (something I don’t do for free) but if you can figure it out yourself I have no problem with that.
Hi, at first- superb theme. I’m grateful to use it. I have small problem. How to make main page center after erasing sidebar?
In the theme adventure you would need to decrease the size of “#center” to 780px or increase the size of “.content” to 980px to get this to work.
hi. I really want using your theme but I use the “all in one adsense and yahoo ypn plugin” which pushes my pictures to the left or right out of the main column, How can I fix that, to wrap my pictures again. well I try to do that my self but if you have any idea? or maybe you have an adsesnse plugin that works well with your theme? thanks a lot…
Well if you could show me some pictures of what it is doing and let me see the code I should be able to help you out.
I posted the screenshot on the blog above, well I can place the adsense on the single page and “after the loop”, without using the plugin
hi, thank you for your design, it’s quite unique. but, how can I change the background picture if I choose this theme? Please do me a favour. Many thanks!
All you have to do is change the image in the image folder in the theme, make sure you keep the name the same “02.jpg” otherwise it will not work.
Hi Eric,
just want to say thank you for your great looking theme!
I’m using it now for my Geocaching-Blog (with some translations to the German language) and I really like it.
Greeting,
Jens – Team Benito
Greetings Eric,
Your theme is great and I’m using it in conjunction with Word Press and the Mike Dillard system which is amazing. I just wanted to thank you for the great work you did on this theme. I’m a business man, not a coder, and your theme assisted me in obtaining a theme congruent with my business approach. We are both adventurers in our own right! Good luck and I hope our paths cross one day! – I wish you all the best – Polar Bear Joe
http://www.lemarez.nl/wp-content/themes/adventure/style.css
I saw your URL on the above style sheet. I liked http://www.lemarez.nl/ because I try to do similar things.
love the concept want to stick one of my paintings in the background…
Good job..
Hello!
I’ve been using your adventure theme and I don’t know how many people have complimented me on my website! Thanks a lot! However, today, it was “updated” and no longer works. I’m new to creating webpages and all the time that I took getting things to look right looks to be wasted. I’m sorry to complain, but is it possible to put things back to “normal” and just create a new theme such as Adventure2 or something like that? Thanks a lot.
~John
Truly sorry to here that your having problems, but the update has a lot of new code which will make things a lot better in the long run.
hello today I got an uptdate from your nice theme and I did it, but now the background picture is no longer to see.
Can you help me with this??
Have no idea what to do. I would not like if I have to change
Thank you
Sabine
I’m sorry about that problem, try downloading version 1.3.4 because I accidentally forgot to put the background in 1.3.3
Thanks for this great theme !
I just change the photo and colors (I prefer blue colors).
http://didier.misson.net/blog/2010/07/31/on-change-de-look/
Very good now.
Thanks 
Just upload a different photo to your website with the same name as in the theme “02.jpg”
Love the site and the theme. I am using it on mine, thanks for creating it.
Hi Eric,
I found the design of your site on WordPress. I have used it for my own site.
So I have to congratulate you for this great design.
I would like also to translate in french some of the title. Would it be possible?
Thanks
Stephane
The adventure theme is amazing!!!