Tope help

Hi, last night I went through the step by step three times. Each time something different happened when I got to the testing part. I have been cutting and pasting the source code from the index page that comes up in Chrome. Is this where I am going wrong? The directions seem confusing, because in the beginning I am assuming that index.html is the index Chrome file, and that in order to get the code, I just leaped to going to 'view source' and cut and pasting the code from the Chrome html page. But I have no idea if this is what I am supposed to be doing. The only 'notepad' document is the style.css.
The directions state:
"Now, open the tope folder on your hard drive and find the index.html file. Copy this file to a new file called tope.xml. This will be your Blogger template. Open tope.xml for editing in your favourite text editor (I like to use Notepad on Windows and TextWrangler or vim on the Mac)."
What does it mean to open the index.html file and copy? If it does not mean to open the file in Chrome, then go to the upper right pull down window (in Explorer) and open the "view source" then where would I get the code to copy and paste? And further, "open tope.xml in your favourite text editor" but would the text editor already be open if I was cutting and pasting code?

Hi there,

You need to copy and rename the file rather than opening the file and copying the contents.

(I assume from your wording that you are using some version of Windows, so I'm trying to give windows instructions from memory - years since I've actually used windows.)

So you need to:
open the tope folder - using windows explorer
select (rather than open) the index.html file - click it once with your mouse
use ctrl-C to copy the file and then ctrl-V to paste a new file
then I think it's F2 to rename the file. call the copy "tope.xml"
then you can open the new file with notepad to edit (see below if it tries to open in another application...)

Each file extension has a default application to handle (or open) it. (In your case .html is being handled by chrome.) If you need to use a different application to the default (e.g. you need to use a text editor) then you can click the item once and right click to bring up a context menu. In here there should be an option called something like "Open with ..." and then you can choose from a list of applications that can handle that type of file.

Hope that helps!
Cat

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