All Nucleuscms install package came with a default skin which we think it got all the options in it. We just changed the way it looks and left everything else in place. After tons of trials and errors we think we can explain what's what in the default skin.

The skin come standard with the default_right.css and a backup default_left.css which are the two files we modify to change the look of our blog. Inside the skin folder, there are other files like head.inc, header.inc , sidebar.inc , skinbackup.xml ,  navigation.inc , footer.inc

If we want to select the default_left.css (which the sidebar is on the left of the item body), we can go to the head.inc and change the default_right.css to default_left.css.

Before we start to modify the default_right.css, we recommend to have a graphic software like photoshop, we use Jasc paint shop pro 8 (bundled with some hardware we bought many years ago), cooltext.com, colorcodes (to select colors for the skin), if you can't find the color codes for some color, you can google for other website which has all different colors, the must have is notepad++ to find the lines of text in files since we need this to edit or modify files in...