Modifying index.html

I’ve been with WP nearly two years – and I still don’t know any PHP. You are not alone 🙂

Could we have a link to your site ? We can then see the theme you are using and can get our advice exactly right for you. What you are after is very easily achieved but it might be easier with a link.

Two steps:
Can you make a post (call it ‘Testing’) and date it back to yesterday ? You can do this on the advanced edit screen. This means that we get to see two dates when we move things around which will help.

Next, can you open your ‘index.php’ which is the one in the theme folder, and copy all the code to here:
http://pastebin.com
Then at that site click ‘Send’ at the bottom.
Your code will then appear on-screen and in the address bar it will now have something like
http;//pastebin.com/12345
We need that address – we can then see your index and juggle the code around to get the ideal result 🙂

<div id="content">
{$content}
<br /><br />
<br>
</body>

is that all that is there really ?
I was expecting something like this: http://pastebin.com/468023

It’s okay 🙂
Hmm… you are using WordPress MU which we can’t properly support simply because most of us here do not use it – the code inside it is very different.
If you had WP (not the MU version) on your own domain I can virtually guarantee we could get it perfect for you, but MU probably has so many restrictions on what you can do that it would be a battle we may not win.
Could you get it on your own domain ?

All your modifications should be done in the theme’s index.php file or stylesheet. The themes are located in wp-content/themes/themename/ directories. You are using the default.