Hey guys,
First off, I'm going to state that I am far below the understanding of even the newbie tutorials and explanations on this site.
I cannot figure out how to get my theme to even appear in the selectable themes listing under system preferences on my site.
To put it simply, I made and coded my first template using
this tutorial: Thus, I made a folder, erroneously named "Template" (as I did not know there was a difference between template and theme at the time). In it includes a style.css file, a index.html file, and a "images" folder with all the .png files necessary.
To me delight, opening the index.html file shows a theme and working potential links, etc.
From what I understood - this was all that was necessary to create a basic, decent looking site.
By the way: If needed, I'll upload the files to help troubleshoot if necessary. I noticed every other default theme in the ftp /theme folder has java script files: are these necessary?
Again, please understand I have almost no idea what I'm doing and going off tutorials with huge holes in them, making me question a lot of things and trial and error the rest.
Some side questions: What's the difference between the sftp and ftp to me site? they essentially contain the same files, and both have a XOOPS directory.
The site I'm using to host, Register.com, automatically installed XOOPS for me. Version: 2.2.6
There's a root/public_html/xoops/theme directory, and then there's a root/www/xoops/theme directory: what's the difference? To be safe, i tried uploading my theme folder to both.
I read a tutorial on here, saying to clone the default template of the site. I did that, but it doesn't say whether to "generate the files" or not? What's the point of doing this anyway?
Lastly, there's an index.html file in the theme directory, but not in any of the choose-able theme folders under that directory - what's the point of this .html file?
I hope this is enough information for you guys to get me started off on the right direction. This is the first attempt of hosting and running a website of my own, and I've spent about 10 hours yesterday and starting again today, trying to learn as much as possible.
Thanks for the help in advance,
-Jake