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i'm trying to get serendipity going through my hosting service that provides it... i am quite familiar with css, xhtml and web structure... and somewhat familiar with javascript... but i am completely new to blogs and php... i was told that if i set up a blog... there would be some sort of wizard but i have not come across such a thing installing serendipity through my hosting service... i am trying to acheive the following things:

i would like to have the blog be the index page on my site... or create a splash that goes straight to the blog...
i would like to style the appearance of the blog with css and i would like the logo to appear at the top left... (currently it shows up top right)...

when i pulled index.php off my server all that's in the file is css... and no other code...

HELP...

chatty wrote:i'm trying to get serendipity going through my hosting service that provides it...

If your hosting service provides serendipity, I would assume that it is already installed ..?

chatty wrote:i was told that if i set up a blog... there would be some sort of wizard but i have not come across such a thing installing serendipity through my hosting service...

That would be the case if you have to install it to your webspace yourself.

chatty wrote:i would like to have the blog be the index page on my site... or create a splash that goes straight to the blog...

Depends on the type of installation: If it is installed to the root of your webspace, i.e. www.chatty.net, it should be the index page. If it is installed into a seperate directory, i.e www.chatty.net/blog/, you would have to setup some kind of index.html which links to the blog.

chatty wrote:i would like to style the appearance of the blog with css and i would like the logo to appear at the top left... (currently it shows up top right)...

This can be done by editing the template your blog uses. You can choose from a variety of styles from the admin panel. serendipity usually ships with a variety of templates, plus there are additional templates available i.e. on http://spartacus.s9y.org. The technical documentation should help you get started, and since you already know html and css, this should be a piece of cake for you.

chatty wrote:when i pulled index.php off my server all that's in the file is css... and no other code...

Now that's strange. How did you 'pull' it - by ftp or did you save it from the browser? However, in both cases this is strange. Can you give us an URL?

YL