News/Blog Tool - Customizing the Look
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Changing the look of news.html
If you load http://www.yoursite.com/news.html right now, you'll probably see something similar to the screenshot here.
Granted, it isn't pretty, but the functionality is there and you can edit the news.html file with the instructions below to make it suit your tastes.
You can change all fonts, size, colors, and alignment with CSS stylesheets. There are links to resources at the bottom of this page. They're a great thing to get to know.
Changing the look and feel (fonts, size, colors, alignment) won't change the data in your news/blog/journal. They're kept in two different places. This is important to understand. The actual content, dates and anything else you entered before, is all kept as raw text in your own database. And now, to present it, you can choose any color scheme you want, and your news will be shown with that "theme".
It's a very cool way of working, and it's how XML and all future website technologies will work in the future, so you should learn a little something about it.
Here are some good links about CSS stylesheets:
- Effective Use of Style Sheets (useit.com)
- Robust CSS Tutorials (w3schools.com)
- good book about CSS (amazon.com)
- CSS homepage at world wide web consortium (w3.org)
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