By saeborne on
I finally got Drupal up and running. Many thanks to Arevos and Max Bell for getting me on my feet.
Next very basic question: To alter the appearance of Drupal, let's say to make the background black as opposed to white, do I simply edit the "drupal.css?" I saw there was a section called "themes" but I'm not certain how to implement those. Do I simply rename and replace the existing .css files?
I imagine if I wanted to move to a black background, I would also have to invert some of the bitmap files like "menu-expanded.gif."
At anyrate, thank you very much for your help!
Saeborne
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Modify the theme
All sites use one theme or another. Go to your admin menu -> configuration and you will see the default theme your site is using there. There are a couple of themes that come with a standard install, and then you can download other themes (read the install file that comes with them on how to put them on your site).
What I do is then start modifying the theme by changing the theme file itself, or the .css (just depends on what you want to do). I then go into my user settings and select that theme for specific user (rather than changing the default theme) so only my account (or a test account) experience my changing things around. Once I'm happy with the theme modifications, then you can change the default theme to use your new theme.
I'm partial to modifying the Xtemplate theme now, as I like how this them has an admin function to do some of the changes right there.
Good luck and happy themeing...
Ahh! Love them themes!
Thanks for the point in the right direction, Mike. Edited the .css file and next thing you know, I'm in business! Thanks again.