calicosun

There is one workaround that I think will work and that is to name the custom fields in alphabetical or numerical order ie. Image 1, Image 2, Image 3 etc. I know this wont work in all situations but may in some. I don’t think there is an option available yet to do this… maybe in the next upgrade?

Thank you, thank you and thank you again! I have spent over two hours trying to figure out where my template drop down option went to! Nowhere in any of the research I have done does it say that you have to reactivate the theme after upgrading – something else to my ‘must remember to do when upgrading’ checklist!

I would like to know the answer to this also please.

Hi there, did you ever figure out how to customise things so we can choose the number of words in an excerpt for the home page? I need to to the same. In some excerpts on my home page I only want about 15 words, others 20 and others 40. Have been looking for ages to find a way of doing this but no luck so far.

Thanks for that. So far I have been very impressed with the help and support I have received at the enquiry level and I have also come across a lot of very good reviews. I have decided to go with wp e-commerce. I am sure I will experience some issues but I am also pretty certain those issues will mostly be because of me doing something wrong! ??

Hi there

I am looking at purchasing wp e-commerce – would you recommend it Dimitri? I notice there seems to be quite a few bugs in it if I go by the number of ‘issues’ people seem to be having or maybe that is because is it so popular and you are bound to get issues with that many people using it?

What did you end up using?

How did shopp work out for you?

Hi there

Did you ever figure out how to do this? I see no one was able to assist you so perhaps it can’t be done? I am trying to do this at the moment but am quite new to WP so that will explain why I am struggling with it.

You are so kind to have taken the time to read through my mess of a post. Thank you. I have one other question if possible. If at all possible could you glance over the code below and tell me if based on what you see it is sort of ok? I suspect the answer is ‘no’ as the code supplied is not going to be enough for you to understand what I have done but don’t think I should post the entire code!

My biggest problem is getting the colour bars to run across the entire browser window due to the 1000px width restriction in the body code below:

body {
margin:0;
font-size: 12px;
line-height:16px;
border: 1px solid #666666;
background-color:#ffff;
font-family: “Arial”, Verdana, Helvetica, Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;
min-width: 1000px;
}

To overcome this I created a wrap class as follows:

body {
margin:0;
font-size: 12px;
line-height:16px;
border: 1px solid #666666;
background-color:#ffff;
font-family: “Arial”, Verdana, Helvetica, Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;
min-width: 1000px;
}

.wrap {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1000px;
border: 0px solid #666666;
}

And then used the wrap class around each section as per the html code below. To be honest I have no idea why this even worked as it doesn’t make sense to me due to the wrap having a 1000px width:

<div id=”services”>
<div id=”services_topBG”>
<div class=”wrap”>

<div id=”services_BC”>
<h1 class=”services_heading”>Brand Creation</h1>
<h2 class=”services_subheading”>Create a new visual identity
or look for your business</h2>
<p class=”services_body”>This can include the creation of logos, stationery, marketing material, promotional material, building signage, vehicle signage, websites – anything you need to promote your products or services.</p>
</div><!–//services_BC–>

<div id=”services_BD”>
<h1 class=”services_heading”>Brand Development</h1>
<h2 class=”services_subheading”>Refresh and tidy up your
existing visual identity</h2>
<p class=”services_body”>This can include the creation of logos, stationery, marketing material, promotional material, building signage, vehicle signage, websites – anything you need to promote your products or services.</p>
</div><!–//services_BD–>

<div id=”services_BM”>
<h1 class=”services_heading”>Brand Management</h1>
<h2 class=”services_subheading”>Manage your existing
visual identity</h2>
<p class=”services_body”>This can include the creation of logos, stationery, marketing material, promotional material, building signage, vehicle signage, websites – anything you need to promote your products or services.</p>
</div><!–//services_BM–>

<div id=”services_OM”>
<h1 class=”services_heading”>Online Marketing</h1>
<h2 class=”services_subheading”>Create your website
and email newsletters</h2>
<p class=”services_body”>This can include the creation of logos, stationery, marketing material, promotional material, building signage, vehicle signage, websites – anything you need to promote your products or services.</p>
</div><!–//services_OM–>

</div><!–//wrap–>
</div><!–//services_topBG–>
</div><!–//services–>

– If I remove the wrap then the page aligns to the left of the browser instead of the center – colours are fine, they run across entire browser.

– If I change the width in the body to ‘width’ instead of minimum width then all the colors cut off at 1000px.

I am a bit worried that if I have the wrap class holding together each main area it wont transfer to word press correctly. I am also worried that I have not done it correctly and it is going to fall apart once live or in IE.

Lisa

I can probably do a screen shot of the code like this as well if needed.

Thank you so much.

Lisa

I am not sure if this will work or even how helpful it will be but I have uploaded a screen shot of my home page into Flickr. The link is below. No idea how to use Flickr so hope I have it right:

Sorry to be such a pain. This is the reason I have not asked for help before. I thought it might be a bit complicated.

Lisa

Hi there

Thanks so much for replying to my post.

I am working locally so there is no url for it at the moment. Am in a bit of a tricky situation as don’t want the website to go live until it is completely finished, or at least working reasonably ok in wordpress. I can’t convert to word press until I know I have coded it correctly.

Is that the only way to get help on this forum? Are we not able to link txt files with the code? If so then I am in big trouble as I will be creating all my websites locally so if I need support then I have no way of proving code to check… unless it is little snippets which I guess I can copy and paste into here.

Lisa

Yay. Thanks so much. I saw the 2nd row of editor buttons in some tutorial screen dumps but couldn’t figure out how to get it to display.

Sorry I have taken so long to thank you. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my enquiry.

Thanks so much for your help. Is there a tutorial for setting up a mac computer to work locally?