TXP Serene is a template for Textpattern CMS (of version 4.0.2+), designed for maximum accessibility, flexibility and clean looks. Made by Vladimir Agafonkin.
The installation shouldn't take much time. It is just a matter of how fast you can do copy and paste. :-) If you are a bit familiar with Textpattern already, just follow the steps below. If not, I recommend reading at least a couple of these wonderful introductory articles before proceeding with the installation.
Login to you account using an ftp client and upload all files that reside in "images" directory of the template package to "images" directory in your textpattern installation.
If you don't have an FTP access to the website, you'll have to upload every image through the textpattern admin interface.
Every text file in the "pages" directory of the template package corresponds to a template page with the same name. Go to presentation -> pages in your Textpattern admin interface, then create (or replace) all appropriate pages, using the contents of that directory.
Note that the contact page is optional.
Every text file in the "form" directory of the template package corresponds to a form with the same name. So go to presentation -> forms, then create (or replace) all appropriate forms.
Go to presentation -> styles, then replace the default stylesheet with the contents of "default.txt" file in "styles" directory.
If you were unable to access your Textpattern installation through FTP, rename every reference to image in the stylesheet according to filenames you've got after uploading images through the admin interface.
Go to presentation -> sections, create "archive" and "contact" pages (the latter is optional, of course). Set the following settings:
Don't forget to save every section you adjust.
Go to admin -> plugins, then install plugins by copying the content of each file in "plugins" directory into an appropriate field and clicking "install" (exclude zem_contact_* if you don't use the contact form).
Go to presentation -> forms -> sidebar and edit the text under "about the author" heading, or just delete it if you don't like it. Go to presentation -> pages -> contact if you have one and change the attribute "to" of "zem_contact" tag to your real e-mail address.
You've done it! Congratulations! Now your website should work fine, but be sure to check everything at this point. The final step would be to customize it a bit...
Go to presentation -> forms -> sidebar. It has a very simple structure, so you shouldn't have problems customizing it after reading the code. Edit "about the author" text, add some links, rearrange blocks, create new columns (a new div with class="column") if you want, etc.
Go to presentation -> forms -> header, then add or remove any menu items you want. Note that if you are running your site out of a subdirectory, you do not need to include the subdirectory in the url attribute of "ako_nav" tag that manages navigation.
If you want to adjust the scale of the templage, do so by editing "font-size" attribute of "html" selector in presentation -> style.
More customization info to come in the next version of the temlate.