New To Blogging

[Lemmy]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

OK, over on the right of the page is "Blogroll" with links under it. How do I get rid of those?

You can't. It would be a violation of WP's licensing terms and your blog would self-destruct.

Seriously, now it's time for you to read the documentation and play around in the admin panel. Most of it is pretty self-explanatory.

The first things I would do is delete the install file if you haven't done so already and change the permalink structure (hint: options -> permalinks). Anything is better than the default.

Congrats on your new blog and welcome to the dark side.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

Congrats on your new blog and welcome to the dark side.

Yep, it's looking pretty murky right now. I'll dig into it some more.

[Licker4U]

My head is getting foggy, I'm going back to bed for a while and try to digest things....

[Licker4U]

I've surfed around and found a 3 column theme/template I like but the webmaster that offers it only has 3 colors available. Can I go in the skins folder and change the CSS or will that open up a can of worms?

[Tekster]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

I've surfed around and found a 3 column theme/template I like but the webmaster that offers it only has 3 colors available. Can I go in the skins folder and change the CSS or will that open up a can of worms?

That is what I do, to change colors, header etc.
I don't know if you have a local server installed on your computer, but here is what I do: I installed WP on my local hard drive on my computer and then I play with all the settings, CSS headers etc until it looks like what I want. Then I just copy the modified files on to the server and I know everything will be good.

Here is what I use for my local server: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

[LD]

Originally Posted by TekAngel

That is what I do, to change colors, header etc.
I don't know if you have a local server installed on your computer, but here is what I do: I installed WP on my local hard drive on my computer and then I play with all the settings, CSS headers etc until it looks like what I want. Then I just copy the modified files on to the server and I know everything will be good.

Here is what I use for my local server: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Is that pretty easy to set up? I need that, but didn't want to get too wrapped up in a complicated setup.

[Tekster]

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

Is that pretty easy to set up? I need that, but didn't want to get too wrapped up in a complicated setup.

Real easy, just make sure you put your web pages, WP or anything else on the folder htdocs under the install folder. (just like on a server)