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1. monkeyskates
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there! I am a newbie to website design and wordpress, but am really interested in setting up my webcomic.

   I have spend hours and hours over the last couple of days learning the ropes, and could really do with some help.

   I have wordpress 3.1 and the comicpress theme. The problem I have at the moment is how to actually edit my site to make it look like how I want it to?

   Where is it I actually go to edit my website? Is it appearance>editor? Do I literally just edit my comicpress theme in there to set up my site? Make the sidebar with my hompage, about and contact options? Or do I use an FTP? If so is there any good tutorials on how to use FTPs?

   Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! I really want to make this work, and learn how to get my site looking like I want it to.

   Sam

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Is it appearance>editor?

   If you want to make changes to your theme's CSS or templates files, yes.

3. monkeyskates
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   esmi thank you very much for your reply.

   What I want to do is change almost all of how my site looks. A particular problem I am having is how to make the pages I want appear in the sidebar. So I would want a link for the homepage, one to access archives of my comic, another for info etc. So they appear at the left of my page like:

   Home
   Archives
   About
   Contact

   I would like my new strip to be on the front page with "next," "previous" and "first" and "last" options.

   I realise this could take a lot of learning and time, but after many hours of looking, I still don't know where to look!

   Would I use widgets? Edit the code in the appearance>editor?

   I can find how to change the header and understand all that as it is in an easy to find place - appearance>header. But finding where I go to make my links and put them in the sidebar is proving troublesome :(. Help is appreciated so so much!!!

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Will you using Posts or Pages?

5. monkeyskates
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   At the moment I am looking to set up my site's aesthetics and get everything in place, so I think I am concentrating on pages right now.

   I'm using the theme comicpress which provides some handy add-ons and features for uploading my comic posts.

   A real bother I am having is understanding where I go to edit the code to get my website set up and looking how I want it. Do I just go to appearance>editor? In the editor by editing the stylesheet and templates can I completely control how my website runs and looks?

   I really appreciate you helping me with my newbie questions. Answering my questions in the previous paragraph will help so much, and let me know if I am looking in the right place or not.

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Do I just go to appearance>editor?

   Yes

   In the editor by editing the stylesheet and templates can I completely control how my website runs and looks?

   Yes. You can also very quickly bring your site down. So always ensure that you make a backup copy of any file before changing it.

7. monkeyskates
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you very much for all your help esmi. When I finally learn all the ropes I will make sure I am as helpful to people on these forums as you have been to me :)

8. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   No problem :-)

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