Title: Installing new CSS
Last modified: August 18, 2016

---

# Installing new CSS

 *  [kupotek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kupotek/)
 * (@kupotek)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/)
 * Hi I downloaded a theme from Alex’s great website, and wanted to know how to 
   install a new theme, seems to be simply a new CSS file. Do i simply back up and
   overwrite the old one?

Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total)

 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55669)
 * Yup, if you don’t want the old one at all.
    Rename ‘style.css’ to ‘wp-layout.
   css’ then upload it, and any images to the WP directory.
 *  Thread Starter [kupotek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kupotek/)
 * (@kupotek)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55692)
 * Take a look at [http://www.kittysafe.net/](http://www.kittysafe.net/) and click
   on the Guestbook link…
    The background showed up in the wrong place and the whole
   thing is just HUGE Any suggestions?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55693)
 * Ah… I think that stylesheet is more suited to a full display rather than a frame.
   
   I don’t use frames at all, so I guess you’ll have to play with individual sheets
   and the settings within them to get the result you desire.
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55694)
 * [http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/StyleCompetition](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/StyleCompetition)
 *  Thread Starter [kupotek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kupotek/)
 * (@kupotek)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55701)
 * That didnt help at all, was it supposed to? Anyone here good with CSS? I really
   just need to line up the thing to the left and size to fit. Thanks 🙂
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55704)
 * oh damn, my inline frames are disabled and the site look crap.
    mate, think about
   accessibility and standards…
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55706)
 * Try taking the margin settings out of the #rap in the css ?
 *  [regina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/regina/)
 * (@regina)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55753)
 * my suggestions, although I give no guarantees 🙂 :
    try putting background-image:
   url(“bg.jpg”); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:top left; in 
   your body tag to fix the bg position. adjust the size of your content id to squeeze
   your table into the frame. width:521px; you can also try to narrow the gap between
   the left frame margin and the beginning of the text by reducing this pixel amount
   in your content id. left:20px; those are just the ideas right off the top of 
   my head. hope they help.
 *  Thread Starter [kupotek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kupotek/)
 * (@kupotek)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-55789)
 * Right now Im working on a no iframe site version, I think thats best to accomodate
   all browsers and OS. Thanks for the input!
 *  [kevrani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevrani/)
 * (@kevrani)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-56516)
 * I’ve also downloaded a theme from Alex’s site. I’ve done as Podz says, but I 
   still have the old (i.e. default) theme coming up! Does it take a while to take
   a effect or something??
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-56517)
 * Press Ctrl +F5 and see 🙂
 *  [kevrani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevrani/)
 * (@kevrani)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-56518)
 * So it does… *blush*
    Cheers!

Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total)

The topic ‘Installing new CSS’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 12 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [kevrani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevrani/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-new-css/#post-56518)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics