How To Style Each WordPress Category Page Differently?

Question

I am redesigning a blog, but they want me to style all category pages very differently. Layout and Colors. Further on they want me to design different post pages differently as well. For eg: they have a videos category, and on a video post they don't want the sidebar and want to center the video like theater mode. Is that level of customization possible in WordPress. Please help me?

I wanna know:

how to style different category archives pages differently?

and

how to design a post page differently based on it's category?

and

is it possible to remove the sidebar on those post pages? if so then how?

If you know how to do any of the above please help me, personal help or tutorial links will all help. Thank you all so much.

I really appreciate all the help.

Answer 1

this is easy... just read this page http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates and you will be on your way. Also works with tags and individual posts or pages if need be.

Good luck

Answer 2

You should take a look at the Carrington theme framework. It's a simple framework which allows you to easily override templates based on context.