How on earth do I design my home page?

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Basic Theme:

Standard way to change the colour and complete look of your page, change the theme.

You can choose from XMV or 51 generic themes using this basic function. They all don't suck! you will probably find something that matches your personality, or at least a base theme you can augment.

XMV uses the Pure Dark as the base of our theme.

** EASTER EGG - If you continue to HIT THE FORWARD ARROW you will see HIDDEN themes. They are cooler than the current themes. So have fun kiddies!

Three sections for your homepage design. Things you must decide first - you can always change and play with the outcome as much as possible until you get it just right.

Your Colors - what are the basic colour you want?

Text style and colour.

Media Player = you music player & photo player which can be a completely different style than the rest of your page if you desire it to be to stand out.

All Options :

A bit more than the basic features - you can upload your own images for your header, side and body.

I do not recommend uploading any graphic for your BODY image, unless it is severely muted in colour and tone. The "Side" feature should be treated more as a BACKGROUND feature. It is how we display the "XMV graphic. Header is your banner above the menu tabs. You can replace anything the XMV has done, its yours you are allow.

Advanced:

Wow what is this? That was my reaction, I thought "cool HTML" nope its CSS. Its not your granny's website! The link for the W3Schools is informative but can be confusing. Firebug isn't an amazing feature at all so i don't recommend it, most of the CSS code seems to be hidden from it. Best way to learn it is to just keep playing with it and surfing the web checking out other sites with CSS to get a feel. You can try templates but again you will have to adjust it. Once you get the hang of it you probably will only code in CSS - so I am told. I am still figuring it out myself.