Hi Joe,
Thanks ever so much for your swift response, it's much appreciated.
Regarding the contact information - I had originally tried to give just the village name in the website settings but it didn't seem to like that and insisted upon having a street name as well. I suspected it was possible to remove the includelet, but no amount of playing about would let me. I had another go though, and by some fluke managed to do it so that's all good!
As for the rest of it(!) I've had a play with Firebug and you're right - it's ever-so helpful for working out exactly what is being edited each time. The dynamic display, where it changes right in front of you is incredibly useful. I managed to get the page looking almost exactly as if it had been produced by our HQ, in terms of colours and fonts, which was fab. The only bit I had hoped to tweak but couldn't fathom was the colour of the dotted lines that run both vertically and horizontally across the page. Is that possible? If not, then I'm hoping that I'll get away with it since it is only a slightly different shade of blue than the official one that we're obliged to use!
So, that all seemed quite promising and I was feeling particularly pleased. Unfortunately I've come unstuck once more at saving and using the theme. I wrongly assumed that I would select all the code in Firebug, paste it into Notepad, save it as a '.html' and upload it to the Assets Library. I did all that, but once again messed up the entire site.
If you wouldn't mind spelling out for me exactly what I'm supposed to be saving and then modifying then I would be very grateful! Am I right in thinking that I ought to be right-clicking on the home page and choosing to 'view page source'? I can get that far all by myself, but then it all seems to go belly-up! When viewing the page source, I'm seeing various bits ending in '.css', several of which have 'v2' in and one of which has 'theme.css' in. I'm confused as to precisely which of these I should be saving.
Doubtless I shall need further clarification when it comes to saving my modifications and uploading them (I think I can work the Assets Library, which must be a start?!) but if you are able to help point out exactly what I should be saving then hopefully that will be a big start!
Once again, thank you ever so much for your services and your help. =]
I don't think its possible to save your edited CSS changes from Firebug. Certainly I've never had any joy doing this. If you make some changes in Firebug and then save the page I very much expect that you won't end up with what you'd hoped for!
Unfortunately doctoring an existing theme isn't as easy as you might hope. I think the main problem is that even if you copy the existing theme.css then any paths that are referred to from that file (images etc) wil now probabaly not work, as they'll be looking for the images as a relative path from your new file, not from where the existing theme is located.
In the nearish future I hope that you will be easily able to specify a "supplemental" CSS file for any theme, which will avoid you having to create a new theme based on an old one. If you can wait a while then I would recommend doing so! If you're really keen to get a new custom theme working based on an existing theme then you need to do something like this:
The first step is to get hold of the CSS rules for the existing theme. There are a few CSS files but most of these are the base stuff for laying out the apps etc which will be included for you anyway, so don't need to worry about these. The key file is the one called theme.css.
In actual fact, in the them you're using, theme.css file loads up two other css files - body.css and style.css. So what we're looking for as a starting point is that you create a new css file that contains the rules from body.css followed by the rules from style.css.
Any URLs referred to from within your newly created CSS file will need to be updated to explicitly load images/etc from the old theme's resources. So for example background-image: url('topBullet.gif'); will need to become background-image: url('/resources/themes/template6e/topBullet.gif'); - and the same for all others.
Once you've done that then you should find that if you upload your new CSS file into the Custom Themes section of your assets library, and then set this as the CSS fiel for the Custom Theme in the Look and Feel settings, then you should have a theme that looks like the old one but is now using your CSS instead.
So, after you've done all that, you can then edit your new CSS file to have your new colours etc and upload a new revision into the assets library.
Like I said, it's all a bit long winded. But have a go if you are feeling confident. Otherwise perhaps wait until we've implemented the change to allow you to upload your own supplemental CSS file to any theme!
Thanks
Joe - Voice Admin