Custom Theme
I see that you have created a theme called "custom". To change your theme you will need to use CSS and the best way to do this, particularly if you are going to make lots of changes to the original, is to create a page specifically to hold your CSS. In my case I always use a name called css:theme. The other advantage of doing it this way is that you can create several pages with different CSS and change them regularly, or try out different things. When you have done this the first tag on the page must be [[code type="CSS"]] and once you have added all the CSS elements you must close it with [[/code]]. A basic example is here:
So you add the CSS elements you want on this page. Save the page. Then go to your site manager at admin:manage, then Appearance -> Custom Themes. Press edit next to where it has your custom theme name, in your case "custom", then further down the page where it says "Enter the page name below to import the CSS code" enter the file name (e.g css:theme) and then press the Import button and then press the Save theme button further down.
The following stage you will normally only need to do the first time. Go back to Appearance -> Themes. Make sure that _default is selected and then Press Choose a theme and pick your custom theme from the list. Look at the other items on the list, system, admin etc and make sure they have Inherit from _default checked. But it is wise to select admin and then choose a default theme, for example Clean, for this one. The reason is that sometimes custom themes can cause problems with the admin:manage page, side bar or top bar. Make sure you then click on the Save changes button.
Then navigate to one of your pages and you should see the changes you have made to your CSS. I usually do a hard refresh for this (F5 on IE, ctrl+r on FF) to make sure any cached page is not loaded.
Hope that helps.
Rob
Leo Pang, 12 Nov 2008 02:20
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