YES!  That worked! (removing that "minify" business)

I may just keep it that way.

But in any case, I made the empty text file called csshandler.ashx, uploaded it, and still no style -- so the error pertaining to it, after I did that, says this:

2010-06-17 13:51:23,611 ERROR mojoPortal.Web.Global - 68.191.243.33-en-US - /csshandler.ashx?skin=dcarter-orangesunset&s=1&v=2.3.4.3
System.Web.HttpException: The page must have a <%@ webhandler class="MyNamespace.MyClass" ... %> directive.
   at System.Web.UI.SimpleWebHandlerParser.ParseString(String text)
   at System.Web.UI.SimpleWebHandlerParser.ParseReader()

And just as with that other server stuff, I have no idea whatever what that means -- all that %@ stuff is entirely new and unfamiliar to someone who's limited herself to Linux/php/MySQL for 10 years -- MySQL errors, even php errors (those dreaded parse errors from missing/misplaced semi-colons!), I can usually kinda puzzle out, but this... ARGH!  All new territory to me!

But at least now I have the means to make the site look ok, while I try and set it up.  I became really interested in Mojo because of how easy it is to use Artisteer templates -- I use that program a lot, for Joomla templates and lately for DNN, and it's a really great way to build a design visually before you have to get into the code of it.  Mojo has so much good stuff built in, I thought it seemed a much better choice for an asp.net-noob than DNN, which isn't terribly intuitive for new users, but having to get into all this just to get a template loaded -- well, I've managed to add to my miniscule knowledge of asp.net stuff, at any rate.  ;-)  (those web.config things seem a bit less scary everytime I have to get into one of those files!)

Since this seems to be more about server config than anything else, you may want to know that I'm on MochaHosting; they have a new control panel they're trying out as an alternative to Plesk (BLEAH!), so it's possible that they just don't have it fully configured yet, I suppose (I got a new set of nameservers when I switched to it, so it's apparently a whole new setup, with the new control panel).  The new control panel is called "DotNetPanel" and it includes the Microsoft Web App Gallery -- which is how I got Mojo installed, since I was unable to get it installed manually, with my almost-nonexistent ASP.NET skills.

Thx!

Andria

Well, that was cool; that snippet of code into csshandler.ashx did work; I put it in, and changed back those settings in web.config, refreshed, and hey, I've still got style! ;-)

Speaking of which, I've been working all last night and today on the skin, which is an adaptation of my basic design/colors for all my "CrypticSites" -- if you'd care to visit http://mojo.crypticsites.net/ again; I'm rather proud of it (love that Artisteer -- some of the design effects you can get with it are just sensational, even if I do have to optimize some of the graphics it produces). I finally figured out how to stop having a duplicated top menu, by removing the "nav" div code from the layout.master -- that seemed the only way to go ahead and keep the mojo-supplied menu at the top, and not have a dupe'ed home link just below (or in one of the Artisteer skins, the mojo menu was actually superimposed over the artisteer graphic menu).  I think I wound up using artisteer-24verticalmenu2, then removed the "nav" divs from that master page.

One thing I can't figure out (among so many!), and that is why that vertical menu is on the left, because in my design, it's a right sidebar, not left, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it over to the other side.  I watched the video about the hierarchy, but that didn't contain the info I need.

So I'm off to explore some more, and see what I can see. :-D

thx!

Andria