I created a draft Drupal 7.26 site on my development pc using the Bartik theme which I copied to /sites/all/themes and renamed. Renamed the .info and bartik terms in template.tpl.php, it worked well so I made alterations to style, colors and layout.css files. It works well on my setup.
I zipped the /sites folder and the database, installed drupal 7.26 on the server, set up the database on the server to have the same name, username and password. Renamed the default /sites folder to /xxxsites then unzipped my uploaded /sites file to replace the original /sites folder. When proven I simply delete the /xxxsites folder. I have done this process many times successfully but not with a rejigged Bartik theme.
I have standard modules, ctools, views, colors, and others on my dev machine which copied across in the zipped /sites folder.
Things seem to work on the server, I can log in to, view and alter the site. Except the Bartik banner colour which I altered to grey in my copy does not display in the server display. If I switch the server theme back to original core Bartik it displays the original blue banner which disappears if I try to change colours from the original blue.
I seem to remember this was a problem in a number of themes, Mayo, Danland and others quite some time ago but never found a resolution.
I have compared the server css files to my dev css files, I have compared the .tpl.php files and all are word for word.
I have tried altering the server css code but alterations do not work. I suspect there is something i have overlooked but do not know what. Can someone please point me in a direction on how to solve this issue? thanks in advance Roger