Stumbling over CSS and PHP

The first site I’m working on is another locator site, using the same software as thescrapbookstore.com, that  will help people find local farmers where they can buy fresh, organic, healthy, real food. They can type in their ZIP/Postal Code and it will show the farmers who sell direct, complete with driving directions.  

My reasoning for doing this site first is purely selfish - I watched the movie Food Inc.  over the holidays, and my trips to the grocery store are now accompanied by a newfound sense of trepidation. What am I really feeding my family?!?

I am using the Frugal WordPress template as the basis for it, because it lays everything out in nice easy boxes.  The locator script is a free script called phpGoogleStoreLocator.  My knowledge of CSS or php is painfully limited. I know enough to know something is possible, but I don’t know exactly what to type without googling something like CSS background color, and following the directions to the letter – for every little tiny thing I want to change.

While the Frugal template gives me a fairly clear menu to make my choices, the phpGoogleStoreLocator absolutely does not. It’s a very painful trial and error process to make the search pages and results pages look the same as the rest of the site.

Once I have it all “looking” seamless, I need to make notes on where exactly I changed things in the store locator’s CSS file, and where I added things into the php code of the pages itself, so if I pursue another locator site, it’ll be a much more efficient process – no more spending 53 minutes trying to figure out how to make all the various borders on the various divs look the same.