New User to Serndipity [HELP]

[mmarshall29]

Hello everyone!

I'm new to this blogging software and would like some help with a few things if you guys don't mind

1. I would like to know if theres a plugin or a way I can modify my header navigation to have drop down menus that go to different static pages.

2. Linking the pages in my drop down menu.

3. Customizing the font in my header (news box) at the top I want to be able to make colors, red, blue, green etc... and maybe have like NEWS! <red then a link here> or somthing all those lines and I would like it to go left to right if possible.

4. Add a header Image with a *random quote* underneathe or a quote in which I define.

5.Youtube Button - I can press and it will paste my youtube video embed code, in which the size that I specified in my other videos I would hate to resize my videos each one I post it's rather annoying.

6. I would like to embed a smaller version of my stream in the corner of my page (under the search) if possible it's like a mini video (ustream) of me http://geekinc.org/index.php?/pages/live but would be on the front page aswell under the search if that makes any since it would be a tinyer version

7. Advanced shoutbox that makes it so they have to put in a name in order to post a shoutout so I know whos posting the shoutout.

8. Can I remove the copyright on the bottom? IF not thats cool just asking I would like to put some things on the footer but don't know how to go about it and what the main templates called I don't want to break anything.

9.Custom background - I think this is in the CSS? of the site not to sure but I want to be able to add my own background.

10. Have the header change from blue? to Green? To red? or have 5 colors in which you can press the color you want

11. Locating the main index so I can add some things LOL!

Thats a bout all I can think of at this moment. If I could get some help with these things I would appreciate it?

-Miles
Website: http://www.geekinc.org
"I would love to fix the world but they won't give me the source code"

[Don Chambers]

Is there anything else??

Nearly everything in your list is POSSIBLE, but not without quite a lot of effort. What are your top 3 priorities from that list?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Most things can be achieved if you get yourself familiar with CSS and HTML. Then you can simply edit the "index.tpl" template file of the template you are using, which contains the HTML-Markup for most surrounding things. Also "entries.tpl" can be used for any changes entry related.

Depending on the template you use, the CSS file to edit would be user.css (for bulletproof) or style.css (for most others).

Best is to create your own template, by copying the current template directory you use to a new directory like "mytemplate", then edit its "info.txt" file to give it a unique name, and then start editing files. This way you preserve your changes on serendipity updates.

Some other things can be done with s9y plugins - have you looked at the youtube plugin for example (serendipity_event_youtube, available on spartacus.s9y.org). Also random quotes and shoutboxes are available as plugins.

And like Don mentioned: It's best to take things one at a time.

Regards,
Garvin

[mmarshall29]

First of all thank you for your fast replies.

Some of the things I want to achieve eventually is all of these but let me start with 3

The Navigation - Linking , and drop downs with links

3. Customizing the font in my header (news box) at the top I want to be able to make colors, red, blue, green etc... and maybe have like NEWS! <red then a link here> or somthing all those lines and I would like it to go left to right if possible.


9.Custom background - I think this is in the CSS? of the site not to sure but I want to be able to add my own background.