Step one: playing around with the stylesheet
The stylesheet is at the core of establishing the look and feel of a Wordpress blog.
Simply by playing around with the stylesheet you can make radical changes to the overall look of the blog very easily. For example, step one of my adventure in creating a new theme here was to start with the basic Kubrick theme that’s the default used by Wordpress and change the background.
I’m ultimately intending to have a background photo that is behind everything in the content screens which meant stripping out a lot of the “background-color” lines within the Kubrick stylesheet and replacing the references to the various Kubrick images to background.jpg. I’d to add “margin:0 and padding:0″ to the body style to remove the annoying little offset effect that you get when the central column isn’t quite lined up with the left and right ones. The Kubrick theme also refers to the background image within header.php so that needed to have two lines changed.
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