Serious head erproblems with CSS and Themes

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    carrimak · Member ·

    Serious problem. This is my first experience with blogging, but I am fairly experienced with other software; and with html/css.

    OK. Signed up for a free blog, added custom CSS. Using IE6, when I tried to edit the CSS, instead of opening the CSS in your editor (within IE6); it insisted on opening it in my editor, no matter what changes I made in “tools” in ie6. So I copied the CSS from my editor, pasted it into the “box” on the dashboard, and saved it. That seemed OK.

    However, now whenever I try to select a new theme; it’s always displaying with the previous themese css. Probably because they all are named style.css. Even when I “clear cache” and this happens with Firefox as well.

    Also; many serious problems in all of the themes trying to display a custom header image. Seems to be OK in the preview, but never the actual.

    I’ve looked at previous forum messages from earlier this year and see that this has been an ongoing problem.

    So any suggestions? It seems as though custom CSS and changing headers are all interfering with each other.

    And I wish each theme had it’s style sheet named differently; so that it included the theme name.

    I really don’t know what to do at this point…

    Thanks.

    Carrie

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    cornell · Member ·

    At this point, don’t panic! ;)

    It confuses me too and I’m supposed to know what I’m doing!

    The first thing to do is go into your custom header and if there is one delete it.

    Next, Go to the CSS Editor and if you want to keep any changes you have made copy them and paste them into a notepad window on your local PC.

    Select Start From Scratch from scratch and just use this. Delete anything that’s in the window. Save it. That will clear the CSS you have.

    Now go back to it and select “add to existing CSS”. Save again.

    That should now have set your blog back to its original CSS from the theme.

    I believe that the Custom Header and the CSS CAN interfere with each other, you need to be careful about what you’re changing.

    Please try the above and let us know how that goes. We can then tackle the next problem. :)

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    carrimak · Member ·

    Thank you! That helped a lot…now I can see the new previews as they were supposed to be, by clearing out the CSS…..

    So I will go back to the beginning and try again.

    carrimak….

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    cornell · Member ·

    :)

    Let us know if you have any questions. Glad you got it sorted!

    Collin

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