Home boxes

Base URL issue

I'll look further into linking the the stylesheets and images so that they show up. I don't have a great deal of time right now, so I'll need to ask you to be patient with me getting it to work on a localhost as well. It works when it is on a live domain so I'm placing a lower priority on this. This is a duplicate issue and any updates will be posted there, however.

Home boxes

Create 3 blocks for the home boxes and position them in the homeboxes region
I do actually think that most of the instructions I have provided are above and beyond the scope of a themes documentation, but for you I'll go a little further.

Go to Site Building > Blocks (admin/build/block)
Click "Add block"
For description I added Home Box 1, as this only shows up on the blocks page it is handy to name it something you will recognise
For Block Title, type Home Box 1
In the Block body add some text, I used:

<p>
<img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/sample_home3.jpg" title="sample_home3" />
</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit etconsectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>
<a href="node/2">
<strong>Read more »</strong>
</a>

You will need to upload the image sample_home3.jpg to the directory sites/default/files and ensure it has the correct permissions.

I then set the User specific visibility settings to:
Users cannot control whether or not they see this block.

Under Role specific visibility settings:
I leave all options unchecked

Under Page specific visibility settings:
I check "Show on only the listed pages."
and in the textarea I type:
<front>

Click Save block

Back on the blocks page you can drag Home Box 1 to the region Home boxes or you can choose Home boxes in the dropdown select and click "Save blocks"

Repeat this excerise for Home Box 2 and Home Box 3

Views Nivo Slider

Perhaps the instructions are slightly ambiguous, here.
In views, under Basic Settings the views style and the row style do have to be set to Views Nivo Slider as you say. The instructions I link to are quite specific about this. As my instructions are still in the state that they are more like notes to myself that need to be filled out, I will look at making them a little less ambiguous when I can.

What my instructions were referring to, was when you click the settings cog next to Views Nivo Slider in the Style settings. There are a number of default settings that can be set there too, for example:

Image field Preset: slider_image
Style: None
Effect: Random
Slices: 15
Animation Speed: 500
Pause Time: 3000
etc.

If that instance of Style is left as "Default" instead of being set to "None", then you may experience something different than expected.

Conclusion

Thanks for taking the time to highlight the issues, but if I could request a couple of things in return.

1. Please don't open 1 issue for 3 different problems you are experiencing, if I fix 1 or 2 of the issues but the third isn't fixed I have to leave the issue open. 1 issue == 1 issue, I would sooner have 3 issues so I can address each one individually and close off those that have been solved.
2. Don't open a new issue for an existing issue, if you are having similar problems to another issue add a comment to that issue, so I don't have to close your issue as a duplicate.
3. Don't assign yourself to an issue, unless you intend to fix the issue and supply a patch, which you would be more than welcome to do, especially when there is a recognised problem with the documentation, that I could do with a hand to fix, due to time constraints.