Theming a view to use node.tpl.php
Greetings,
I am attempting my first custom Theme and am having trouble understanding how to theme the views. I have added a custom content type called "trouble" and created a node-trouble.tpl.php file that perfectly styles the posts on my homepage. Now I am trying to implement the "magic tabs" module which will allow me to put three tabs on the front page to allow sorting on most recent, most popular, and highest rated.
I've created 3 views and associated them with the tabs, but I don't know how to make the view use the styling I've already done in node-trouble.tpl.php. Basically I just want the view to look exactly like my homepage does already with node-trouble.tpl.php.
I've tried a bunch of different things, including changing the row type of the view to "node" and using a node-recent.tpl.php file (for a view called "recent"), which didn't seem to do anything. I have overriden my node.tpl.php file.
I also tried using the views-view-recent.tpl.php file, which did work, but I would have to go through and translate my node-trouble.tpl.php file into something that would work in the views-view-recent.tpl.php fields file.
Basically I'm just wondering what I should be trying to do and then I can proceed from there.
Here is the site if you'd like to look at what I'm trying to do. you can see the blue magictabs is what I'm trying to make look like the posts below it.
Thanks for your help!