Posted by Ms1993x on November 18, 2012 at 12:10am
My site: http://onegizmo.com
Theme i am using : http://drupal.org/project/magazeen_lite
What I am trying to is
1)remove the black spacing at the top of the page and
2)place my own pictures in the slideshow
I have used Dreamweaver before so I will be able to solve both those problems in DW but, how do i get my files from drupal into Dreamweaver and then how do I upload them back to my database ?
Please explain every step thoroughly because I am beginner and very new to drupal.
Thanks allot !
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you should build a subtheme of the theme in use. then override the CSS in your custom.css file. see: http://drupal.org/node/225125 as well as the many tutorials that can be found with google. Utilizing a subtheme protects your customizatons when the theme itself is updated.
If you choose to hack the theme in use, your files are stored in sites/all/themes/NAMEOFTHEME
Dreamweaver can be a pain to use with drupal. IMO you are far better off utilizing firebug in firefox or chromes developer tools to inspect current css in use and alter. edit your files with a text editor. if using windows notepad++ will aid.
I've never imported a theme
I've never imported a theme into Dreamweaver...wouldn't be quite sure how to do it.
You could manually open the page.tpl.php file with DW - the slide images are hard-coded into the page template. If you only have a few and they won't change that's fine. If you want something more flexible you'll want to look for a rotator module of some sort (nivo slider, views slideshow).
The black bit at the top is just css. ... are you familiar with using FireFox or Chrome to inspect pages? If using Chrome, you can right-click on the area and 'inspect element' you can see the info.
Just looked-actually it's an image or series of images.
Open the style.css file in the them and search for #header (around line 280). There is a series of styles pointing to images in the theme images/ folder. If you are looking for the same 'look' but just want a different color you could replace those images or drop them and just have the CSS hex color (you'd still have to shade the bg of the search image to match).
Good luck!
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