framescourer

This works. Thanks (it’s a measure of my cavalier attitude to home computing that I didn’t even know I had Wordpad).

Could you explain what ASCII transfer mode is and why it’s important?

Actually what would be REALLY useful is if someone could suggest how to get the CSS to look like a line-by-line stylesheet in Notepad. At the moment, when I open it there it’s one continuous line (with plenty of confusing symbols, probably meant to show the delineation of the sheet in another format).

Yes, I’ve been there. It’s very helpful and I continue to benefit from it. Thanks

Oh dear, no… I downloaded and installed XAMPP: not only was I unable to use it as you suggest/I ought, worse, I don’t understand what it is and how it is that it works in the browser.

I feel that I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. I can see that Word Press is an impressive instrument in databasic terms, so I will have to think carefully about my content/design prioritising before I continue.

Thanks for your help nonetheless.

That’s great, thank you. I’ll give it a go.

Once I’ve put all my hair back in.

Yes, what I’d like to do is customise it locally in a WYSIWYG editor (I’m using Nvu) and then upload by FTP. However, the template editor only gives me the code piecemeal (i.e. for individual php files) so I can’t see WYG, if you follow me.

Please, I’m quite sure I’m doing (or NOT doing) something extremely obvious, being that customising the template should be so straightforward