Mostever- in your administration side of the program, click on Site Administration. you will see all of the original info you used to set up the site. under this will be some check boxes. uncheck the simple cache and the page file cache. Your site will run a little slower but things will happen just by refreshing the page. Leave this off while you are under developement.  The css file can be edited just like regular css, just make sure you save it as .php. The file for the site is located at yoursite/views/default/css.php.

IF you install different widgets, some of them have there own css file and you will have to edit it to match your site also.. Or you could just plug in a theme form here and presto you are done. IF you do that your site look will not be effected by future upgrades.  

Thank you for you assistance. I don't like to figure these types of problems out so I used a software program to install the site automatically. It installed everything correctly, but unfortunately I must now get myself familiar with all the files.

I will continue to play around. I am still disapointed in the overall progress of the site. After 5 years of development you would think that the elgg site would be better than what it is. I don't know php so I guess it must be more difficult then I was told.

the site is a little messy, but everything is here. Make sure and check out the themes and plugins in the drop down top tools menu. most of them have a readme file that will help you install and use them.   Also Find a member named Fusion and follow him. He is the god on this site.  

Hello, I am brand new to elgg as well and I just got set up with arvixe.com as you mentioned. They do set it up for free, but it took me a while to figure out where to go to get it done. I am not familiar with their control panel and it was confusing but it set it up real fast and all is well.

Now I just need to figure out how to customize elgg. It seems as though elgg was writen for programmers only, because if you don't have the book on elgg and if your not a programmer, you are stuck with the plain out of the box version.

I can hold my own with xhtml and css, but this is rediculous. I know nothing about php and I can't find the files I need to edit for the life of me.

Sorry, don't mean to be negative. elgg has the best rating out of all the sites in their class, I am just frustrated that everything is so clouded.

Go to: yourElggSite/views/default/css.php

look for: collapsable_box_header

edit: background

* dont forget to edit borders

good luck!

well this works too. I will try to get back to you as quick as I can.

thanks again Zakary.

I thought it best to move the full previous discussion here...

could not find another customisation group.

well this works too. I will try to get back to you as quick as I can.

thanks again Zakary.

I thought it best to move the full previous discussion here...

could not find another customisation group.

well this works too. I will try to get back to you as quick as I can.

thanks again Zakary.

I thought it best to move the full previous discussion here...

could not find another customisation group.

i just was thinking of something where we could have page a url to it and then place html code in the page... I dont need an editor just a page where there is a section to add html code thats enough. I am sure I can figure it out with the plugs out there like the FAQ plug but i was just wondering if there was something even simpler.

and its for embed code so people can paste banners on myspace profiles and what not... once i have the page setup  can do the rest in html and php

I was not thinking of the badge. But, I badly need the technology to be able to create new pages. :|

Yes... I'm sure dhrup will see this as well... I think we could very simply create a login_form.. put it some where on the server and call it with (include = 'login_file.html').

What do ya reckon?

Yes... I'm sure dhrup will see this as well... I think we could very simply create a login_form.. put it some where on the server and call it with (include = 'login_file.html').

What do ya reckon?