JeevesBond — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:10:04 +0000

Whitestone wrote: Now that sounds like an incredibly useful tool. How would I create files for something like that?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is a language for formatting HTML, generally the CSS is kept in a seperate file and linked from the html like this:
<style type="text/css" media="all">@import url("stylesheet.css");</style>

Try having a look at http://www.apaddedcell.com right-click and select: View Page Source. See all the CSS files listed in there?

You can have a look at the contents of those files too, try this link: http://www.apaddedcell.com/themes/apaddedcell/style.css

All our code is under a Creative Commons License so you can do pretty much what you like with it (but please check the license first).

Whitestone — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:00:21 +0000

Now that sounds like an incredibly useful tool. How would I create files for something like that? Do I just use a word processing document to write the code and then save it as the right kind of file? Or, do I have to download something?

JeevesBond — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:29:47 +0000

Whitestone wrote: I was under the delusion that when I used the FTP, all my content would be there still but my site would have the appearance of the new template!

Heh, if only it were that easy.

Although that's why most designers/developers use CSS. It keeps the content seperate from the design. Want to change your page design: don't mess with the content, just change the CSS!

Whitestone wrote: Thank you again.

No problem.

Whitestone — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:21:19 +0000

Thank you very much for the information-it isn't patronising at all-I was under the delusion that when I used the FTP, all my content would be there still but my site would have the appearance of the new template! So I when I transferred the template files, of course, I ended up just putting a blank template on the web, just as my site was being considered for inclusion on a search engine. It was a small one, thankfully, so I got an email about it...

Then someone told me I had to add all the content first. Bluefish was the top recommendation.

Thank you again.

JeevesBond — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:33:41 +0000

Whitestone wrote: My editor is Bluefish.

Good choice, I like Bluefish.

You will have to FTP your site, once it's finished (or nearly finished). How far have you managed to get? If you're at the point where you've picked your editor, but aren't certain which files you should edit then start with the ones ending: [incode].html[/incode]. But before you start editing ensure you have a copy of the template as it was sold to you! Then you don't need to worry about messing it up.

You should be able to right-click on the HTML file and select 'Open with "Bluefish Editor"'. Try putting this anywhere inside the [incode][/incode] tags:

<h1>Welcome</h1> 
<p>This is the Hello World page!</p>

Hope this helps (and isn't patronising, I don't know what your skill level is). By the way, what distribution of Linux are you using: Ubuntu? Let us know how you get along, this is just to get you started, we can help further.