Painter Theme IE6 problem

You may need to serve up an additional stylesheet for IE6 using a conditional comment in header.php.

Just a small comment on your site.
You’re probably already aware of it, though.

You have the home page on the navbar twice. XD;;;
Also.. can I ask how you moved the sidebar to the left side? I’d like to do that for my site also.

…I’d also like to find out how you removed the blogroll and meta links and all that, too.

(I know, I’m being bad by hijacking the topic.. but I don’t think it’s possible to message the person privately..)

You have the home page on the navbar twice

I don’t know Painter. Does it use wp_list_pages or wp_page_menu to generate that top navbar? There are ways to avid that duplicate Home link but the fix depends upon which of those two template tags are being used.

can I ask how you moved the sidebar to the left side

Just guessing but look in style.css for:

#sidebar {
float:right;

Change float:right to float:left

Then look for:

#content {
float:left;

and do the reverse.

You may end up also having to massage a few margins to get the whole thing to work but that’s the main gist of the change.

Oh hey, that’s awesome. I got that to work. And painter uses….

wp_list_pages

I just checked in the header, and it uses that.

Bumping so the original poster can see it, and possibly someone who can tell me how he removed the blogroll and such… (unless he/she responds to the question. XD)

I’m sorry it took so long to post this. I had kinda back-burnered this project until I got some other sites finished. The biggest obstacle on the painter theme CSS mods was to actually find the CSS file. If you go to “Appearance” and edit the style.css file, all that is there is a few useless entries . . . useless in that the Painter theme does NOT use them. If you look at the link in the source code to your CSS file, it is:
/painter/css/style.css

However, the Appearance editor actually edits a file named
/painter/style.css

To make CSS changes that actually do something, you either need to change the CSS link, or mod the /painter/css/style.css file manually and upload it. With that said, to move the sidebar in the painter theme to the other side read below:

The original content CSS entry was
#content
{
float:left;
width:700px;
padding:14px 0px 10px 10px;
}

and the original sidebar CSS entry was

{
float:right;
width:250px;
padding:14px 10px 10px 10px;
}

I just changed the float on the content to right and the float on the sidebar to right.

To remove the blogroll and others, you can simply delete the appropriate DIV from the sidebar.php file in the Appearance editor. I don’t remember, but I think with 2.7 you can actually take the “links” widget off of the sidebar through the widgets page.

As far as my text not showing up in IE6, I’m still lost.