Finally installed...now why

[Deron]

wont it recognize my stylesheet?  Maybe I am just going about this bass ackward?  I've already got a site up (www.deronsizemore.com).  I'm just playing around with the CMSMS to test it out.  I wanted to impliment it with this current site to just experiement.  Well I add the "template" although I do not think I did that right either.  I just copied and pasted the html code into the editor and did the same for the css stylesheet.  For the template its got the info on there, but since the site is "tableless" the overall look of the site is located in the stylesheet which CMSMS must not be recognizing.  Do I need to upload all images, etc into the CMSMS or should it automatically recognize them from my webserver? 

Also are there any little codes I need to use for CMSMS?  For example if I have an area on my site:

does it need to have something in between the tags to be recognized by cmsms?  I've seen somethings like {content} or {news}? 

I know I have about 5 different questions here...sorry about that I'm just confused.  Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.  I had no idea it would take me this long to install it and get it set up.

[BuzCarter]

A couple of quick suggestions:

1. View page source; either the CSS is embedded or linked, if linked check the URL and the file

Did i say a couple? I've just started using this (about two hours ago) but i'd recommend just linking to the external style sheet directly within your html you've used to make the template. This way, you can test using a static page and the dynamic content should be identical.

Elliminate the unknowns, one by one, to find your problem.

Oh, 2. Yes, you need to include the CMS special tag of {content}.  In the admin there's an Extensions menu item, under this is Tags -- these are the out of box tags that are available for you to use in your templates.

Looks like there isn't much in the way of tutorials/help for this, but it is fairly straight forward.