Re: Newbie needs help with 4 design elements
What I described will get the front page pretty close to your original blog layout, there will be certain compromises , possibly ,that have to be accepted, but it may also be a case that the conversion has missed a few steps? or is incomplete but I have no knowledge of the template pack plugin I’m afraid.
There are aspects of the new layout I don’t get such as the 140px x 1000px background that exists in the new version that didn’t in the original and doesn’t look as though it’s really required, it looks as though it’s to facilitate faux columns for a layout that follows default themes body rules for min/max and main width values.
You will be able to play around with aspects such as tab positioning and login form but I would take things a step at a time and concentrate on the primary layout elements first then come back to detail.