You have to take your site’s design and make it a WP theme.
Theme_Development
If you know html and css it shouldn’t be difficult. You just have to understand how the template files work together in the theme system.
Right ive changed the background on the defualt theme but I cant seem to get it centered. Heres what ive put in the css…
background: url(‘images/bg.jpg’) center center;
but nothing happens is that wrong?
Also I changed the name of the bg.jpg to bgg.jpg and uploaded the corresponding picture under /images and it just didnt want to change, the only way I could get it to change was to rename them to the original bg.jpg. So frustrating.
I didn’t say to change the default – that’s an animal that no beginner user should touch ever.
I said make your site’s design a theme. Pick a decent theme ( http://themes.wordpress.net ) that is relatively close to your design and go from there. Leave the default as it is…
Why would using someone else’s theme make it any easier? I cant really seem to find any that look like I want. Editing the default one was easy because of all the tutorials referring to it all the time. I managed to get the header how I wanted it, I just needed to change the footer and the content which could have all been done through the css. I just needed some problems sorting out…
see here… http://wordpress.org/support/topic/131626?replies=5
