Gerry MacOstair

You are so right, esmi. It’s really time to put a stop to our little “CSS 101” in this thread.
Let me just say this to Danni before we close the case:
Rename your “style.css” to “style2.css”, copy the original “style.css” into your theme directory. Then open both files in your ASCII editor, and copy all portions that already worked into the fresh copy. That should get you back on track.
Since you know my name, you will also find my contact form on the web. So, if you happen to run into further trouble with this project, just give me a shout.
Good Luck,
Gerry

Say, you want an image called sb-bg.png and a fallback background colour of white (in case the image won’t show in a browser, because of specific configuration or such).

Place image inside …/themes/fabulo/images/

Go to …/themes/fabulo > find style.css
Open it in an ASCII (plain text) editor, look for and edit #sidebar, like so:

#sidebar{
[various attribute:value pairs already there];
background: #ffffff url(images/sb-bg.png);
}

Good Luck,
Gerry

Just to get to grips: “test site” still means macpctips dot com/calvary/, and “live site” means thecalvaryfamily dot org/ ?

It doesn’t matter which company is hosting your WP instance. It’s a matter of logic, not of technology.
Your “‘Home’ button” may read “Home” or “Start” or whatever you please – that’s just a “label”, so the users know which way to go. As long as its “guid” value (in the data base) equals your domain, it will point to the home page.

(The test installation in a /home directory won’t cross your way – this time – as none of the links in the menu bar point to it.)

And if it has the lowest order number it will appear first in line.
It’s the same with all CMS I have come across so far.
If all pages have the same order number (0 by default), usually the one which was created first will show first.
There are only seven pages on the parent level of your live site.
Create your “Home” page as you did on the test site (it too will get 0 by default, and probably appear last in line), then appoint order number 1 to “About”, 2 to “Messages” and so on … and Number 7 to “Testimonies”. “Home” (still having the default 0) will then appear on the far left end of the line.

Oh, I didn’t advise you to enter a value “home” as “post_name”. This triggers WP to call a page called “Home”. Leave that field empty and everything should work as intended.

macgig,

Basically, there are two ways to go about this.
As for the one mentioned in that post you refer to, I would look for div class="navbar" in “functions.php”, inside the directory of your theme.
Most themes seem to call that div “menu”, yours obviously calls it “navbar” though.
The other way, if you don’t want to mess with the code, were to make the change directly in your data base. Here’s how:
Access your data base and open the table called “posts”. Then press “Insert”. Enter “Home” (or whatever you want to call it) as the value of “post_title”, enter your domain (like, http://macpctips.com/) as the value of “guid”, and, finally, change the value of “post_type” to “page”. Now, save these changes, and return to your front end. The new button should appear, yet probably not on the far left. To get it there, enter the menu “All Pages” in the admin section, and change the “order” of your pages the way you want them to appear. Give “Home” a 0, “About” a 1, Messages a 2, etc …
Looks like a lot of work, but may be done inside of a minute.
Hope that helps,
Gerry