Iv just done my first bit of hacking around with CSS and PHP on a WordPress site - one of my clients, SkateFresh. I started off by having a look at the current template, then working out how to steal the stuff from the main page, so I came up with the following:
Which gave me the following:
Hangon a second! That doesn't look right! There aren't any list items for that thing! It turns out the WHOLE of the left hand side bar isn't supposed to have any item bullets, because of the navigation. I think this is a bad design idea, but im not a CSS guru, there might a good reason to do this, so with a bit of hacking:
It now works properly:
And all this took me was a few hundred years about 30mins, including saying hello to my brother / sister in law / their 2 kids, and having lunch! Another job well done!