Can I do this ?

  • Hi Everyone !
    Ive been checking out wordpress for the past few days sizing up its capabilities to perform what i want it to. It looks really cool, and i think im convinced but before i start my designs and start investing major amounts of time, i was wondering if somebody could tell me if this is possible to achive with wordpress.
    I want to use WordPress on my site to perform 2 different things… on my homepage, i will have my normal blog, no problems there. However i want to have a special category called “portfolio” to store my works but obviously i want them to look completely different to a normal text blog entry. Is it possible to have separate template designs for separate categories of blog ? If so how ?. I noticed in MT when i looked at that, you can add/remove templates etc, but in wordpress, it seams you can only use one set. I would also like the name of this special category to be displayed separately from the other categories on the homepage ? Is this possible ?
    Next one, is it possable to have like a custom field inside a blog entry. For example. Every one of my posts in my special category will contain an image… however i would like this image to appear in a completely separate part of the page to the body text of the blog content.
    am i asking to much here ?
    Anyone have any idea ??
    Regards
    Matt

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  • TechGnome, is it possible to use that separate-category look solution with multiple sub-blogs? Something like:
    @import url( <?php
    if ($cat == “1”) {
    echo “dir/cat1/cat1.css”;
    if ($cat == “2”) {
    echo “dir/cat2/cat2.css”;
    }else{
    echo get_settings(‘siteurl’);
    }
    ?>/wp-layout.css);
    Is that the proper syntax? I’m very new to PHP but am learning quite a bit here. Thanks for all the help and tips. These forums are really useful.

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