Patrick Muldoon wrote:
I want to learn about installing the Joomla templates and editing / changing them.
First thing I always do is load up joomlaXplorer.
www.joomla.org/content/view/443/37/
-Helps with changing and deleting files. Use instead of FTP for most stuff.
You may still need an FTP client to set some permissions. I use smartFTP.
For general template/module position understanding, you may find it useful to load up several templates and flip between (set default) them to see what changes. Then figure out why things change.