Comments on: Save yourself the trouble! http://discoverboo.com/2008/11/save-yourself-the-trouble/ Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:25:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Boo http://discoverboo.com/2008/11/save-yourself-the-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:31:27 +0000 http://discoverboo.com/?p=260#comment-327 Cristi, thank you! I must say that I was not referring in any way shape or form to the thematic forum because I put up a question there and was given a really good answer and some good resources too.

But thank you for taking the time to tell me what you can. I actually started off with a few of the free templates like metamoph and minimoo but had problems with silly things. Like text flowing out on to photo’s. Then I asked a question about changing fonts over at wordpress.org ( not .COM) and think it was Ian (Key master) who sent me the child theme instructions page.

THEN I read somewhere (the distinction between wordpress.com and wordpress.org), that if you were new to it and you madea mistake you could lose your entire blog so I wasn’t going to touch anything!!

I don’t have time right now but I am most definitely going to check out those templates and see what I can do!

Just one more thing. Where is the best place to start learning this stuff?? As in, what do I start with?? What is step one LOL I mustn’t be the first person to ever come across and learn these things from scratch, and I can’t imagine that everyone goes to school to learn it either. So there must be some self help things out there that I could use.

Once again, thank you for taking the time to try and help me.

Boo :)

]]> By: Kelly http://discoverboo.com/2008/11/save-yourself-the-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:25:40 +0000 http://discoverboo.com/?p=260#comment-326 Boo inspired me to make ‘some’ changes to my blog. A custom domain being one of them. To add a bit to the benefits of Blogger.. for a mere $10.00 you can change to a custom domain and they handle everything. All you have to do is pick out an unused name and pay for it.

Changes other then that are as greek to me as they are to Boo, lol

good luck Boo – I know you’ll get where you want to be .. hopefully sooner then later

]]> By: Cristi http://discoverboo.com/2008/11/save-yourself-the-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:50:46 +0000 http://discoverboo.com/?p=260#comment-324 Hi,

I have to say I’m sorry you had so many problems but you’ve “banged your head into the wrong wall”. Setting up a wordpress blog might be a little intimidating if you didn’t do anything of this kind before, but creating a new theme (even a child theme for that matter) needs good knowledge of HTML, CSS and a bit of PHP. You don’t have to be an expert but you definitely have to have some basic knowledge of these technologies.

Your first mistake I think was choosing Thematic and trying to develop a theme based on it. It’s simple for me but Thematic was thought as a development theme to build upon.

There are quite a few other themes that allow you to change setting without touching any bit of html or css.

One such theme is http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/vigilance . You can change a lot of things just from an admin backend.

Other options for good quality themes you can find here: http://www.revolutiontwo.com/ There are quality themes that were released for free just a short time ago.

In the end there are so many places where you can find WordPress themes but I recommend you have a look here. http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

Hope you have better luck in the future :)

Regards.

PS: I saw your post on the Thematic Forum.

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