katesgasis

WP can use anything. It’s how you do your tempates. You can even have it use tables. Or nothing at all.

You can delete the wp-admin directory and its content. And upload a new wp-admin directory.
If it still not showing I guess you’ll just have to reinstall your WP installation. You can do this in Fantastico as well. This time you could put the correct URL’s.

You have logged in? You’re getting there. I think options-general.php is not in your wp-admin directory. If you have a wordpress files with you on your local pc, you can delete the wp-admin directory in your webserver and replace it with the one in your pc. That’ll resolve the missing files. For now.

Go to your Admin panel, go to Options. You can find it there.

@braven:
Maybe you can say something about your setup (e.g. host,webserver,php version…) so that maybe somebody might know what is the problem.

Before you install WP, you must create a mysql database first. You can do this by loging into your mysql server.

1. /path/to/your/mysql_installation/mysql -u root -p
2. create database wordpress;
3. use wordpress;
4. grant all on wordpress to ‘username’@localhost identified by ‘password’;
5. flush privileges;
6. go to http://localhost/WP-dir/wp-admin/install.php

People doesn’t use CSS only for the sake of impressing others of their CSS skills. CSS is here for a purpose. Unless you only wanted to have a pretty website then you can have your tables. But if you wanted to change your layout pretty often then you’re out of luck if you use tables.

Anyway, nobody is forcing anybody to use CSS everywhere. It’s just a matter of choice.