I have left it well over a day and my favicon stil isn’t displaying, although I seem to have said this repeatedly during this module, this time I mean it -  quite frankly I am baffled!! Tom said that the code is correct and in the right place in header.php so there should be no problems there. I tried reloading the favicon to the server in the mushblue theme folder using the ftp file manager in dreamweaver, which again I have been assured is correct. But no!!! No sign of the damn things.

Its really frustraiting as I’m sure I’m missing something blindingly obvious and I hate it that Friday’s lecture is so far away as I really want to get this blooming favicon to display now…if it’s the last thing I do.

I decided to to see how my website would look when in several different theme templates I’ve previously downloaded, just to spice things up a little. I downloaded each of the below themes and uploaded them to the server using the ftp manager in dreamweaver. I then activated each of them using the dashboard. However I didn’t like these themes, I much preferred the mushblue theme, which I downloaded and then dramatically edited to give it a personal touch. Here are screen shots of all the themes I downloaded and used, just to prove my ftp and theme installation capabillities:

Wordpress Default Theme:

Wordpress Classic Theme:

 Box Blue Theme:

Cutline 3 Theme:

I then took the changing of CSS to the next level and made drastic changes to the background of my blog. Firstly I removed the original, rather plain background images. I then created a new image in photoshop that I wanted to replace it with. Once I had finished making the picture  I then saved it to the images folder in my wordpress document, which then automatically shows in my dreamweaver.

Once this showed in dreamweaver I then uploaded it to the server. Then I went into the Style Sheets folder in wordpress and added the image to the background in the body section of the style sheet. The end result is a new picture showing in the background of my blog. This is starting to show an understanding of how CSS actually works.

I have made a few bigger changes to my blog using CSS. In order to do this I went into my styles sheets in the theme editor. I then changed the text body colour to blue using a really helpful website that lists CSS colour codes. The web address for this is http://html-color-codes.com/ . I then went to the body section and deleted the original code for the original text colour and replaced it with the new colour code.

Here is a screen print of my favourite chosen theme in its original state. This is so that whoever is marking this can see the changes I have made to the original theme i.e. I have already changed banner, width between banner and rest of the blog using CSS, added widgets etc. More changes will be added soon: