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Title: Anyone know owt about building websites
Post by: Sam on 02 April 2012, 20:36

I cant get to grips with editing layouts and stuff. I have a wordpress site with a 'theme' and want to edit it but I dont know how to use the analtics so I can change the layout and colours etc within the wordpress coding. Its doing my f**king nut in, can anyone give me any tips or owt?

Title: Re: Anyone know owt about building websites
Post by: leegt5 on 02 April 2012, 21:35

Wordpress uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which will normally be one file for instance maybe called style.css that takes care of your layout, text and colours.

Here explains about css from scratch.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp

Title: Re: Anyone know owt about building websites
Post by: Sam on 02 April 2012, 22:38

Quote from: leegt5 on 02 April 2012, 21:35

Wordpress uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which will normally be one file for instance maybe called style.css that takes care of your layout, text and colours.

Here explains about css from scratch.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp

Cheers buddy, alot to read through there...

I seem to have managed to create somthing like what I want by hitting buttons in a random fashion but it took SOOOOOO much longer than it should have. Must read through that site buddy  :cool:

Title: Re: Anyone know owt about building websites
Post by: dom on 04 April 2012, 15:50

The W3C website is excellent. Essentially HTML is used for content, CSS is used for formatting/layout :wink: