hi - i'm a newbie non-techie and JUST getting started trying to set up a site/blog with wordpress for the first time. i'm using the Atahualpa theme and have what should be a very basic question that i'm not clear about... it looks like style.css is the "style sheet file" but it seems to have nothing in it while css.php looks like it has lots of stuff in it... which file do i look in and edit to change stuff like the top nav items/functionality, right sidebars, footer, top/banner image, etc. thanks so much for any answers!

jj

you don't edit either, you look thru the theme options and let the theme do it for you.

Take a little time and look at each of the theme option pages, you be surprised with the options and if there is some css that you can't set as an option, you can add it to the CSS Inserts so it becomes an option.

hi - thanks for your reply, but i'm not totally following since i've never used WP before, only Movable type...

take a little time and look at each of the theme option pages,

....... where do i "see" these? i looked in the theme directory via FTP and don't see any "pages"?


you be surprised with the options and if there is some css that you can't set as an option, you can add it to the CSS Inserts

...... what is a CSS Insert and where do i find them?

thanks so much!

so it becomes an option.

fyi - these are the things i want/need to do and i thought i do them all by changing stuff in the style sheet file (that's how it works in MT)

Change the background and font color and order of the top nav items (created from draft static pages i created)

remove the comments RSS tag on the upper right

change image in the top banner

remove the uncategorized phrase and color bar below the top image/banner

edit the look of, i.e. border and font colors and sizes of the right sidebars

change the links/copy in the right sidebars

delete some right sidebars

edit the contents/copy/links in the default footer

Get into the backend of your site and go to Appearances->Atahualpa Theme Options and take a tour

oh wow - thanks so much - this looks great and i'll spend the time going through it... really appreciate your help!