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  • I am using wordpress as a CMS for a website. I’ve got my template working for the most part. I just have one question, and I hope someone will be able to help me. If you go to https://debbiemiriello.com/site/?page_id=5 You will see the template with some content in the middle. The content makes the side bar get longer which is okay except I don’t want the little background buttons to repeat over and over where there is no URL. I’ve hear that using the style sheet, its possible to make a color appear in the used/non-link area, but have no clue. Any ideas how this can be done, or if it can be done a different way?

    Thanks so much.

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  • In you style.css file, there is the #sidebar definition. Try to remove the line
    margin-left: -20px;
    If it is not enough, try to change (increase) the witdh to the sidebar, say
    width: 280px; (instead of width: 220px;).

    Hope this help.

    just an FYI – the site looks great in IE, but gets a little wonky in FireFox…

    <cough>
    … from the site linked to the OP’s name:
    “Web Design
    We specialize in professionally designed custom web sites…”

    <cough>

    Thread Starter jjtarabay

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    moshu

    Theres no need for that my friend, we’ve never used WordPress to design a website. So we are just trying to learn. Thanks..

    Thread Starter jjtarabay

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    PozHonks and ladydelaluna

    Thanks for the constructive thoughts. ladydelaluna, I hadn’t had a chance to look at it in FireFox, so thanks for telling me, I managed to fix the footer, just have to figure out why the style sheet shows up differently in FireFox for the nav and body content. PozHonks, I will try what you said, although I am confused about what that will do. What I am trying to do is make a solid color appear over the background image where there is no link information. Is that what you are trying to help me do?

    well i think what moshu was pointing at here is that this is all basic CSS stuff you’re trying to do – so it doesn’t really make much sense that someone who specializes in website design is having this much of an issue with a site. (you’ve posted about this site specifically in the past)

    in that respect – i know that sometimes we tend to overthink things that are new to us. what you’re trying to work on (in my professional opinion) with the sidebar links should actually be done using buttons or hovers rather than trying to align text links up with a repeating image background. (yes, you can still do this and have a text link… but it’s within the CSS you’d have to do it… not the HTML)

    not trying to shoot you down or anything, just hoping that maybe you’ll realize that overthinking can cause a bigger headache than if you actually went back to the roots of CSS and HTML and did it the right way, rather than try to fool it. (might also help with the display issues with the browsers too)

    Thread Starter jjtarabay

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    Well…it works the way I want it to for the most part in IE, just not FireFox. So it can be done, and I’ll figure it out. I was asking for help in the wrong place it seems. I won’t come back and ask any questions related to its customization. There are plenty of people asking questions, so I don’t know why mine had to get all of this attention in a not so nice way. At any rate, if a question does not merit an answer, there is no need for rudeness as I did not word my questions in a “you have to help me rude way.” All I needed was an answer or to be told that you (as in forum users) couldn’t/wouldn’t be able to help. Thank you for you time with this.

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