users uploading and changing font

  • hola peoples,
    got a little difficulty setting up wordpress the way i want it. i’m using wp 1.2 and evolving slowly beyond the “complete computer idiot” stage into the “computer dummy” one, so bear with my simple questions and please give simple answers (podz for president?)…
    1.) anyways…first of all, i read the entire tutorial on how to change site styles, and then i read the entire (and very helpful tutorial) on basic coding. yet i still can’t find out how to change just the default TEXT style.
    last time i tried to change my site template, i ended up doing so much damage i had to do a complete purge/reinstall. and i’m not sure if the custom theme switcher commonly linked to around here (“style switcher”?) is for visitors to my site or if i can use it to change the entire site myself…so i’ll be content with just changing the default font (for now) but where in the heck is it referenced in the code?
    2.) one of the reasons i installed wordpress to begin with was b/c i wanted to set up a family/friends sort of casual meeting board. which means i want select members to be able to post images. setting up this aspect of wordpress was easy enough (especially giving different levels of authority to people- very cool). but as of now, i’m the only one uploading images. i use 1&1 internet hosting for both this site and another one related to business, so defining the correct path was a bit of a hassle.
    my image path is convoluted enough- “https://www.sitename.com/wordpress/wp-images/links/deng.jpg” (which is fun to type out in entirety every time i click the “image” tab when posting, but i digress). yet when setting up the path for other users (hopefully i’m correct in assuming that i don’t have to share the same path with everyone, and instead i can set up a common path for everybody but me?) i run into a problem.
    i get the following error after clicking on the “upload” button: “It doesn’t look like you can use the file upload feature at this time because the directory you have specified (/homepages/42/d88579156/htdocs/*/wordpress/wp-content ) doesn’t appear to be writable by WordPress. Check the permissions on the directory and for typos.
    (* = where i have my site name -stripped of “https://www.” and also minus the “.com” ending).
    the only reason i have that mumbo-jumbo sounding directory specified is b/c that’s what was suggested for the box labeled “destination directory” when setting up the “upload” options via the wordpress control panel. under the “destination directory” box is the “uri of this directory box” which i also filled in via the wordpress suggested path. that one is a lot simpler however, and is : “https://www.sitename.com/wordpress/wp-content”.
    i’m guessing that for the specified directory i have a bunch of things in the path that shouldn’t be there, such as “homepages” and all those numbers, but i dare not mess with it for fear of having to do yet a third complete reinstall b/c i’ve corrupted it again.
    sorry for such a long post, but i figured i’d be as descriptive as possible in order to describe my situation better. and thanks again for the help!

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  • Default text style:
    Try changing the CSS in these places –
    body
    font-family: ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
    p, li, .feedback {
    font: 90%/175% ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
    letter-spacing: -1px;
    }
    Uploading:
    Have you tried this ?
    https://faq.wordpress.net/view.php?p=70

    Thread Starter browndog77

    (@browndog77)

    hey podz,
    thanks for the quick reply. regarding your advice, my problem is that i’ve scanned my page a thousand times and can find no mention of the word “font” anywhere. i *know* that’s technically impossible b/c the code is responsible for telling the browser what to do- so the only conclusion i can surmise is that i’m going to the wrong place to edit somehow… (i even used a text highlighter plug-in i have for My-IE2 but it couldn’t find any query results for “font”, “font-family”, “font-family:”, etc. either.)
    here’s the path i use to get to the code, please tell me if it’s wrong…
    1.) i log onto the site as admin
    2.) after name + password, when i hit enter, it takes me to the main control-panel page which has the large “wordpress” logo in the upper left hand with the twelve item options bar (“write”, “edit”, “categories”, “links” …”plugins”, “templates”… etc.) and under those tabs is the box i use when composing posts with the appropriate “save”, “publish”, etc. tabs underneath it.
    3.) i click on the “templates” tab found at the top of the page.
    4.) voila! i arrive at the page with all the coding jargon, but i can’t find any mention of the fonts.
    unless the place i’m going to edit the code is incorrect, could i shoot u an e-mail so u could check it out when you have a convenient time to do so?

    From 3)
    Look to the bottom left. See a box for entering a filename and under that a short list of files ?
    Enter ‘wp-layout.css’ into that box, click EDIT and up it should pop.
    You can chuck an email my way, sure ??
    tamba2 at gmail dot com

    Thread Starter browndog77

    (@browndog77)

    actually i take back my e-mail request i just made a second ago in that last post… b/c i’d rather use up my blue chips for the other issue i mentioned which is of more pressing concern: the error message i get as a result of having an improperly labeled “upload” path… i can live with the font style the way it is since it’s more an issue of aesthetics than function (one of the few times i side with ayn rand on anything is the “function triumphs over form” argument, even if i am an artist!)

    Thread Starter browndog77

    (@browndog77)

    dude,
    you’re on the ball. i wrote that last post before seeing your response, sorry! … lemme go check it out!

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