Ok, hopefully this novice exploration isn't annoying everyone, but my questions are getting more focused....


What my problem seems to be boiling down to is one thing:

When my blog is displayed and I view the source, whether it is the main page or a comment page or whatever, I always see several ...

I've found where to change the text but still can't find where to format it.

When the page with comments is pulled up, these two black text lines are coded as follows:

<div class="serendipity_commentDirection serendipity_comment_s9ymarkup">Make text bold by enclosing it in asterix, as in *bold ...

Thanks Garvin, again, for pointing me in the right direction. I had found a trackback section of entries.tpl but there was another below it that controlled the display of the heading, which is what I had circled in my image above.

As for the black text, I'm searching around lots of language files ...

Ah... I'm slowly making my way. Thanks Garth for the updated link - I've now figured out how to put a banner on my main page - it was the index.tpl file in the default folder all along!

However.....

Now I'm trying to do some work on my page when it's displaying comments, and I'm lost again. Tried ...

My blog is currently in a member's area of an adult website - tame and tasteful by comparison, but it's still NSFW.

I can provide access if necessary, but the question is simple - anyone who customizes their blog will know the answer (I make this assumption because I'm certain I'm missing something ...

Ok, I'm making progress and further customizing my page, and my question is now focused to:

How can I add a header or footer to my main blog page? I want to add a simple banner and text at top. What file controls the layout of the main page?

Any help?

Thanks.

Jeff

I'm missing something fundamental. The first link you gave me takes me to a page that includes a section on "Creating layout.php."

Here it says that if I dont create this page then it will use /default/layout.php but I dont see this page in my system anywhere.

I can customize css for my page, but ...

Hi -

I've installed, picked a template, done some customizing of the css file and all is working well.

I can't see where to customize the entire layout of the frontpage, however. The documentation mentions a layout.php file but I have none anywhere. What file is used to create the main page? I ...