INTRO
Thanks for using my "Lean and Clean" WordPress theme.  I did my best to build this theme so that anyone could just plug it in and use it.  My goal was to make this theme with a clean, minimalist design.  In the Stylesheet I did my best to leave comments on what changes what and what styles control certain aspects of the side design.  

All I ask is that you kindly leave the link to my blog to give me credit for the design in the footer.  

INSTALLATION
Upload the "Lean and Clean" folder to your wp-content/themes directory - activate the theme and you should be all set.

CHANGING COLORS:
The one thing that most poeple will want to do is to change the colors of the links.  I made this as easy as I could.  There are only three lines of code that you need to change.  

Find: 

Line: 39 - a { color: #cc3300; text-decoration:none; }
Line 165 - border-top: 2px solid #cc3300;
Line 182 - border-top: 2px solid #cc3300;

In each of these, change the "#cc3300" to the color number that you want.  This will change all the colors of the links as well as the navigation bar colors. 

If you are unfamiliar with numbers for colors, here are a few options:

Blue - #0000FF
Teal - #3399CC
Deep Red - #660000 
Red - #FF0000
Orange - #CC3300
Brown - #666633
Bright Blue - #0099FF
Pink: #FF33FF

WIDGETS.
This theme is fully widget compatible.  I have split the widget sections into three sidebars:

Sidebar1 - this is the section directly below the main navigation that spans the two columns.  This is a great spot for a "about me" paragraph.  

Sidebar2 - this is the left of the two columns in the sidebar.

Sidebar3 - this is the right of the three columns in the sidebar.

Please note that the widgets are styled by the ".widgets" section of the style.css file. 

HEADER
The theme comes with a dark grey header image (header.jpg) that you will find in the "images" folder.  I have also included a PNG file for those who might need that.  If you want to add a custom image or header, just update the .jpg file and replace the current one and you will be all set. 

ARCHIVES
You'll notice that there is a template file called "cleanarchives.php" in the template folder.  I love the Clean Archives PLugin and you can find the most recent version here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clean-archives-reloaded/).  All you have to do to get this to work is to create a page called "Archives" and in the "Page Template" section choose the template called "Clean Archives."  

THE NAV
I set up the navigation to pull the list of your pages.  I built the theme to format well if you have about 5 pages with semi-short titles.  If you are like me and you have about 20 pages but you only want 4-5 to show up in the nav you can do the following: 

1. Open up the file "sidebar.php"

2. Find the following lines of code (lines 5-6):

<li><a <?php if (is_page('home')) echo('class="current" '); ?>href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
		<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>

3. Replace them with your the pages that you want to show.  Here is a format to follow:

		<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
		<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/page-title/">Page Title</a></li>
		<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/page-title">Page Title</a></li>
		<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/page-title">Page Title</a></li>

4. Save the file and upload it to your server.  Be sure not to delete the <ul id="nav">  and the </ul> following these lines of code. 

Thanks!  If you have questions about the theme I'll do my best to answer them.  But I can't guarantee that I can get to every question.  

Todd Hiestand
www.toddhiestand.com