What apps are you using to edit the themes? I am hoping for some sort of WYSIWYG program. I also need it to work on windows. I tried setting up dreamweaver, but it does not like to display PHP in design view. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Well, none of the programs I use is WYSIWYG. I stopped that years ago when I found out I have better control doing it directly. I use Textwrangler as a pure editor but that is Mac only. Main developing is done using Eclipse. Eclipse is available for all platforms.

I am not familiar with Dreamweaver (used it years ago the last time) but it should be able to work with PHP. But of course you need a web server to be able to display them in function.

I just wanting to do some minor changes, like font & color text, shadow on pictures and insert a logo. Do you have any suggestions on where I could look for an easy way of learning how to do this w/ PHP. I did read thru the theme tutorial, but I am still somewhat lost. I don't have a lot of time to invest in learning PHP throughly and hoping for some sort of shortcut. Can you tell I am an young generation American? Ha!

FYI - For those who are interested in this topic, I did some research last night and found this helpful article on why you do not have WYSIWYG editors for PHP.

http://www.thesitewizard.com/php/wysiwyg-editor.shtml

Sorry it will be unavoidable to take some time to learn basic web techniques like HTML and CSS if you want to do layout changes yourself. A good learning resource might be http://www.w3schools.com/

Changing fonts/colours, and depending how you do it, shadows, you can probably do in Dreamweaver with a bit of trickery -- from a browser, save the source of the page, then edit the CSS to get the look you want. Then merge those changes into the theme's CSS.

Anything you want to change beyond what the CSS can do will require you to look at the PHP files.

Thanks to both of you for the info. I will take a look at both options in a little bit. Alex, nice job on your latest theme, Silhouette. I will be looking forward to the release.

I have the same question as jsoupene. I found a theme I really like, namely zpGalleriffic
The only thing is, I'd like my own background color and my own font colors. He has that lovely script as his title and I want that too. And I don't like the orange. Gotta lose it.

So far, I have just been able to change some of the background. I wanted to have the following image for my header: http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i100/erika_conn/header_fotos.gif but when I link that from Options, I get this tiny looking box with a red X.

I don't know much about css. I usually use html. If you look at his custom css file, you'll be surprised. There are only 4 lines there. How did he get that beautiful page with 4 css lines?

Oh, my site is http://fotosbyerika.com

Any help would be so appreciated.

So you use HTML without CSS? And how do you style? No website you see nowaday is done without CSS styling! Knowledge about HTML and CSS is not avoidable if you want to change themes which all are styled via CSS. Seems to me that you have to learn a few things about web techniques.

BTW. zpGallerific uses more than one CSS files, screen.css is actually the main one.

Yes, the lines in the custom.css file is all that is needed to override the colors in the main screen.css file.

When setting the logo image file in the theme options, you must enter an image file INSIDE the theme's images folder (not an absolute path).

The font used in the default is called Scriptina:

http://www.dafont.com/scriptina.font

I was talking about back in the days before dynamic pages. Yes, I know I sound like a dinosaur. Gee, it seems I just learned html. Now it looks obsolete.

Well, as you can tell, I'm no techie.