[Plugin: WP-Paginate] Newbie needs help with coding and css

Alright. First off, I have very limited to no knowledge of coding.

So I am using One Theme for my blog (www.danielspratlin.com) and they use pagination on the home page but not on the posts. I don’t know why. So I’m wanting to use wp-paginate on the my longer posts so as to break them up and have the site load faster.

I can do this with really ugly code:

<?php wp_link_pages(array(‘before’ => ‘<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ‘, ‘after’ => ‘</p>’, ‘next_or_number’ => ‘number’)); ?>

And I get the basic “Page 1 2 3” and so on. But that’s ugly. I want something with css so that it will look good. In comes wp-paginate. I’ve replaced the above code with:

<?php if(function_exists('wp_paginate')) {
    wp_paginate();
} ?>

On my single.php but nothing shows up. I’ve even added custom css to my theme directory and named it wp-paginate.css but still nada. The css is:

#pagination{clear:both;padding:15px;text-align:center;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:#999;margin:10px auto 10px auto;}
#pagination li{margin:0 1px 0 1px;display:inline;list-style-type:none;}
#pagination li a{padding:5px 7px 5px 7px;color:#303335;border:1px solid #CCC;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
#pagination li a:hover{text-decoration:none;padding:5px 7px 5px 7px;color:#5c5e5f;border:1px solid #a7acb0;background:#eceded;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
#pagination .active a{background:#5c5e5f;color:#FFF;border:1px solid #63696c;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
#pagination .extreme a{border:0;color:#555;font-size:14px;}
#pagination .extreme a:hover{border:0;color:#303335;font-size:14px;background:#FFF;}
#pagination .active a:hover{background:#5c5e5f;color:#FFF;border:1px solid #63696c;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
#pagination .inactive{color:#CCC;padding:5px 7px 5px 7px;border:1px solid #EEE;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}

Can someone please help me out here? Also, another question: if I ever get this working, how do I call on it in my posts? Like I said, I have very little coding knowledge.

Thanks!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/