2 newbie questions

[whag]

Hi there to all,

I would like to use serendipity to give my wife a chance to blog about our first-born, who's due in a few weeks.

1) How can I modify the colors so serendipity looks more like the rest of our site and the used colors on our printed cards?
2) when I upload a bitmap, I can preview the image, but it won't show in the post.
For all I know, our hosting supports php5, but that's as far as my php knowledge goes.

Thanks!

Wim Zwarts

PS: using Serendipity 1.4.1.

[yellowled]

1) How can I modify the colors so serendipity looks more like the rest of our site and the used colors on our printed cards?

By modifying the style.css of the template your blog uses.

2) when I upload a bitmap, I can preview the image, but it won't show in the post.

You most definitely want to convert the bitmap files to jpg (and upload them again), especially if they're photos.

YL

[whag]

1) How can I modify the colors so serendipity looks more like the rest of our site and the used colors on our printed cards?

By modifying the style.css of the template your blog uses.

2) when I upload a bitmap, I can preview the image, but it won't show in the post.

You most definitely want to convert the bitmap files to jpg (and upload them again), especially if they're photos.

YL

Hi Yelowled,

concerning the bitmaps. It's doesn't work for bmp nor for jpeg...
I'll try another jpeg tonight and let you know.

Any tips on a good WYSIWYG CSS editor?

Thanks,
Wim

[judebert]

I don't think there are many of those. What you can get is live editing. I like to use Firefox with the Firebug plugin. It'll allow you to edit your CSS on the fly, and it even tells you the source of the data (if you have multiple stylesheets).