This little tutorial will help you change the images used for the RSS icon & the Mail icon and their position on your page. It’s up to you whether you work with the file live. It’s not brain surgery, but as always … back up any files you may alter before you start.

We will be working with these files:

style-one.css (or)
style-two.css
header.php
index.php

To move the RSS & The Mail Icons to the positions I have them in … open either the style-one.css or the style-two.css file depending on which you are using. What you need to change are around lines 79 & 80 in the CSS file.

Find:
img#rss-link{position:absolute;top:172px;left:-105px;}
img#contact-link{position:absolute;top:275px;left:-140px;}

Change to:
img#rss-link{position:absolute;top: 210px;left: 800px;}
img#contact-link{position:absolute;top: 280px;left: 825px;}

This will put the icons in the position I have them. But if you play with the top and left positions you can put them wherever you like.

To change the icons to other images as I did, find icons you like, there are plenty of free ones on the web. Open the header.php file go to this section:

<– RSS Link –>
<a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/rss.png” border=”0″ id=”rss-link” class=”correct-png” alt=”RSS” /></a>
<a href=”mailto:contact@instantshift.com”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/contact.jpg” border=”0″ id=”contact-link” alt=”Contact” /></a>

Change:
mailto:contact@instantshift.com
to
mailto:youreMailAddress@YourDomain.com

And as in my case I changed both icons to images that I wanted and they were both .png files. Of course if you name your icon files to something other than rss.png or contact.jpg you will also need to change the corresponding file paths in the RSS Link section (above) … i.e.: /images/contact.jpg  to /images/myfilename.jpg

Also remeber to keep backups of any changed or added files. If InstantShift updates this theme, you will have to make these changes all over again … or just re-upload your changed file after the update.

Hope this helps.

Pop eMail:

For those of you who have only one POP eMail account, the procedure is very straight forward.

Step 1:

At the bottom left corner of the Mail window click on the “+” pop-up menu. Select menu item “New Mailbox…”

Step 2:

You will then see a drop down sheet. Enter the name of your folder, mine is named “First Level” and click “OK”.

A new folder/mailbox has been created. To create a sub-folder, a folder within a folder, single click on the folder you just created, or any other you have created and repeat steps 1 and 2. You will have created a first level folder and a sub-folder within the first level folder.

IMAP eMail:

IMAP mail is a mail protocol that keeps all mail on a server, rather than delivering it to your computers mailbox and deleting it from the server. There are many advantages to using IMAP. If you have multiple computers or an iPhone, you would be able to see the same mail on each device. And if you delete an eMail from one device, this update will be seen by all of your devices. This includes all archiving folders created on the server too.

Here is how to create a folder/mailbox using a single or multiple IMAP eMail accounts.

Step 1:

Select the account mailbox you would like to create a folder in.

Step 2:

At the bottom left corner of the Mail window click on the “+” pop-up menu. Select menu item “New Mailbox…”

Step 3:

You will then see a drop down sheet. Enter the name of your folder, mine is named “First Level” and click “OK”.

Step 4:

If you were successful you should see something similar to this:

And that’s it! You now know how to create folders/mailboxes in Apple’s Mail.app.

If this was helpful to you … please leave a comment. Thanks!