alisonius

I don’t have access to that link, but thank you for your reply, it helps a lot. My child theme was not properly activated, so that was why some of my changes weren’t coming through. As long as I can create my own styles in the child theme by leaving out the @import, I am set! Thanks!

To piggyback on this thread-
Since you mention “starting your own style definitions from scratch,” I was wondering– how do you recommend doing this within wordpress? I have been working on a new site, where I heavily modified the original css of the Twentyten theme. After reading more about WordPress, I tried to move these changes into my own child theme, so I wasn’t altering the original css. I am coming up with a lot of problems, because instead of just being able to add and delete elements at will, now I have to make sure I address every element from the original theme.

Is here anything so bad about altering the original stylesheet, as long as you keep a hard copy of the css in case WordPress updates? I prefer the freedom that this gives me, but as I am learning as I go, I don’t want to get myself in a bind later by doing this. Thank you so much for any advice!

Thank you for getting back to me– I just read through the conditional tags post, and I see that I probably need to use the tag:

if (is_page(“welcome”)

to make change the settings for my welcome page. But I am still kind of at a loss for which file this code goes in (functions.php? header.php?) and how you would go on to specify the change in header size. If you have a minute, any help would be great! Thanks again!