I may just be dense, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to change my site’s appearance effectively. I have managed changing the images and colors and such, but as far as the actual layout and placement of things, all I have managed to do is move crap around in a non productive fashion. I made a file called test.php. In it I have <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
<title><?php echo $title ?></title>
<?php
Template::Show(‘core_htmlhead.tpl’);
?>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<?php
Template::Show(‘core_htmlreq.tpl’);
?>
</p>
<p> </p>
<div id=“mycontent”>
<table width=“993” border=“1”>
<tr>
<td width=“868” height=“57” align=“left”>
<?php
Template::Show(‘frontpage_main.tpl’);
?>
</td>
<td width=“109” align=“left”><p><strong>Newest Pilots</strong></p>
<p>
<?php
Template::Show(‘frontpage_recentpilots.tpl’);
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height=“46”> </td>
<td align=“left”><p><strong>Newest Pireps</strong></p>
<p>
<?php
Template::Show(‘frontpage_reports.tpl’);
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height=“59”> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I tried it w/o the htmlreq and html head tpl’s as they are in header.tpl. I’m so confused, I just want it to look like it does in Dreamweaver and I have not coded in PHP in a very long time, and this would be over my head anyhow. Do I have to copy every .tpl file i reference into my skin folder? How does it know what HTML file is my template file? I’m so lost and I’ve read the tutorial like ten times and lost my patients. I called the div mycontent in the head and it still hates me. any ideas?