New To Blogging

[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)

[Licker4U]

OK, before I pull out what little hair I have or start drinking more, I need someone to take me by the hand and take little bitty steps and go slow. I downloaded Mike Little's zip file for his blog theme. On this page: http://zed1.com/journalized/themes/j...eme-version-2/ I got: journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-2.zip. I uploaded the "skins" folder to the wp-content/themes folder. I uploaded all the other files to the public_html folder. In the WP admin it says:

Broken Themes
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name skins
Description Stylesheet is missing.

What stylesheet??? In the skins folder there are colors available and each has it's own stylesheet, blue-skin.css, flowers-skin.css, etc. In the main folder there is layout.css and style.css. I know I've done something really simple and stupid but I can't figure it out. Aaaaarrrggghhh!!

[LD]

Originally Posted by TekAngel

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)

I downloaded and ran the install...decided I need a beer... Are you saying you have a local copy of your files (index, etc) and you copy them to the "server" folder as you would upload them to a real server? Dreamweaver is asking me about a "test server" which I'm thinking it wants info about this local server...?

Guess I could read the manual...