WordPress Styles

I have a self hosted wordpress blog and am using a very simple theme that I created, and I would REALLY appreciate it if someone with more experience w/ WordPress could take a second to help me out…

I’ll just give all the info and then hopefully someone could shed some light on this for me because as simple as it may be, I am extremely confused and frustrated lol…

First off, my blog is located at: http://ryancallahan.com/blog/

And here is the format (pretty simple) that I am trying to get my posts to appear in upon being published:

DATE
-Format – April 10, 2010
-Font – Arial, Helevetica, Sans-Serif
-Font Size – 10pt
-Font Color – #696969

POST
-Font – Arial, Helevetica, Sans-Serif
-Font Size – 10pt
-Font Color – #ffffff

That’s it, that’s the only content from each post that I’d like to appear on my blog…and then have a div that i already uploaded to my current theme’s images folder that I want to appear in between each post (the divider i want is located at: http://www.ryancallahan.com/blog/wp-content/themes/default/images/blogdiv.jpg)

THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE TO ANYBODY THAT CAN HELP ME ACHIEVE THIS!

That’s actually easy, as long as you:

a) know CSS;
b) know a little about date controls in PHP
c) know your way around WP themes.

I am sure there are hundreds of tutorials available on the net. Even in the WordPress Codex too.

Your styles (font, size, colour) can be done with CSS. You just need to assign your post with a certain CSS class when you make your template. The date can be done with PHP (which is the basis of WP and its templates). Your only task is to learn your way around a WP template. Have a look at the Codex and then practice on the default themes. I’m sure you’ll find your way.

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