How do you normally upload files to your web ?

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I use filezilla for web sites, but since this is a blog format I am confused how to proceed.

ok, I assume you've either downloaded one of the skins from the skins site (and extracted the zip), or created your own.

using filezilla, upload your new skins folder on your pc to your server into the subfolder called "skins" wherever your blog lives ( ie/ /public_html/skins/ or /public_html/blogs/skins/ ... where public html is the folder where your domain lives on the web )

After that you need to wander over to admin > global settings > skins > *click "install new skin* > click your new skin > and then meander to admin > blog settings > [your blog] > skins > click your new skin

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Thanks. Yes I have downloaded and unzipped one of the skins.

The instructions you provide are what I read on the b2e site. The problem is I don't know how to upload a FOLDER (just separate files) and I don't know how to create a new skin folder in b2e. Can you help with these 2 issues?

Urm, ohh, err, I don't tend to use ftp a lot but you *should* be able to drag the folder from your pc side of the window to the server side of the window in filezilla

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How would you do it if you were installing a skin?

I did that and now I am getting the message that the skin does not have any containers....

Well, I'd normally grab the zip via wget, then unzip it in a temp directory and then mv [skin_folder] ~/public_html/skins/ -r

"no containers" normally means you have a folder path similar to "/public_html/skins/[skin name]/[skin name]/" move all your [skins name]/[skins name] files up a directory ... or there are no containers in the skin ;)

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Thanks again. I will see what I can do. I appreciate your help! May take me awhile to go through and fix my files.

If there are no containers in the skin; how do I fix that?

Did you verify that the skin is actually uploaded to the correct path? That is to say /skins/yourskin/ instead of /skins/yourskin/yourskin/? Sometimes unzipping a skin causes the extra folder thing to happen. Dunno if that is the zip itself or the unzip method.

Anyway another possible cause is a very old skin (1.* generation). It will seem like it is correct except it won't have any containers and b2evo will tell you that.