Make a theme to my tastes? Wouldn’t that be even harder? Years ago I made a site using html – my brain has erased that bit now. I have all the ideas in my head but can’t do what I want to do.
Cheers anyway dude but I am not sure wordpress is for me.
I think your layout looks great. And not difficult to do. I had done rudimentary HTML once before I switched to wordpress – so I’m definitely a beginner. But it’s really easy to figure out. Just download a theme – a simple one will do like cutline 2.2. Then I went through and deleted anything that mentioned “comments”, “authors”, etc until I had a very basic version of what I wanted. (Just delete one thing at a time and then look at the results before deleting the next item !) I have added things back in but still have a “blog” that is exactly what I want. Well, almost… you can see it here
The advantage of wordpress is the support and the tons of info on the web that will help you as your ideas grow.
@ilona__divinity: Use Pages not Posts. And either edit your sidebar to remove the unwanted category list or try adding a widget via Admin/Appearance/Widgets. You may find that all of the links that you didn’t want magically disappear.
Thanks kittywake 🙂 That’s put a bit of faith back in me! I have been playing around all day with a theme, deleted quite a lot of stuff but I don’t think the original theme was basic enough for me to easily add and change bits of code. I will take that on board, and If I can’t get much further with the one I am on now (which I haven’t done an awful lot – just added a horizontal menu bar, deleted the header pic and changed margins) which took me all day, I am now having problems with categories posts etc which is another thread I made. I almost feel bad asking so many questions on here lol.
I think its a case of school holidays and little people driving me mad, lack of patience thrown in and so much to learn lol.
Thank you for the motivational post though.
Try making a copy of the classic theme and customising that. The default them is a little restrictive when it comes down to adding background images etc.
To make your own classic theme to play with, copy the classic theme folder and rename it something like “classic2”. Then edit the style.css file in this new folder and change the Theme Name to “My Theme”. Upload this new theme to your themes folder and then activate it.
Well the first theme I downloaded was silver dreams, after getting rid of most of what I wanted someone advised me to find theme that was more like I wanted it to look which I did. And is now causing me problems lol. I just reverted to silver dream and have managed to sort out my post/page problem too! Should have stuck with the more basic and worked my way up 😀
Cheers 🙂
