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Any suggestions?

I’ve tried NEXT Gen, but while I can get it to show thumbnails or a single image, I can’t figure out how to get it to do both at the same time.

Your links are an unordered list. I’ll assume because you’re asking to put | between the links that you’ve worked out how to make it display horizontally. One way to get this to work is to set your li tag to have a border on the left or right hand side.

The following code is from a working site. The background is black hence the #fff setting. The negative margin is needed to “hide” the bar on the outside edge of the list.

li{
border-left: .5em solid #fff;
float: left;
line-height: 1.1em;
margin: 0 .5em 0 -.5em;
padding: 0 1.25em 0 1.25em;
}

Why?

So the client can revise the site themselves. We also build drupal sites, but its too heavy-weight for a site this small. We’ve also discovered that the average office worker can learn how to work with WordPress more easily than they can Drupal.

Even with clients who don’t want to do their own revisions we’ll almost always use some form of CMS. That much quicker for us a year down the road when the client says, “can you add a paragraph to this page and change a few photos?”

For those that might be thinking use Dreamweaver templates or something similar: 1) client training requirements are higher; 2) Dreamweaver and other WYSIWYG apps suck with CSS especially once you use floats; 3) it doesn’t save any time on the development side; 4) it ends up costing the customer more as they have to buy the software.

Thanks for pointing out the missing CSS rule epicalex. Fixed it thanks to your observation.

Some of your validation issues stem from using HTML 4 practices like your TD widths. Changing your DTD statement from XHTML to HTML 4.01 should fix many of those problems. You can get the exact expression you need over at W3C.

Just had this happen to me. Thanks to the information in this thread my frenzy of panic was immediately relieved when I went to my host’s control panel, selected the database management tool and the correct database and used the repair function. Instant relief.

Many thanks to previous posters.

Ditto.

I use it for clients on a budget. Just because they’re a small client with a small budget is no reason they should be cut off from the benefits of a good CMS. WordPress allows them to compete.

Great!

Thanks very much for all your help: appreciate it.

You can either add the ‘home’ page to the page list manually, or you can also use the sticky-menus plugin and build a main menu that combines pages and select categories.

Why not do it by category? You could then have a custom category or more for special posts.

Sorry about all the typos, too. Multi-tasking reduces typing abilities.

If your XHTML structure is clean and your CSS clean and smart, IE 7 isn’t be a big issue.

There are erros throughout your site starting at th ebeginnign of the file where you specify two character encodings. You do have some weirdness with your main navigation. There’s an addition LI pair wrapping around all your LIs but the first?

Right after that you use a tag ‘center’. As far as I know there is no such tag in XHTML, so that’ll be doing some wacky things.

You’re also using HTML 4 ‘br’ tags rather than XHTML (your doctype). They’re ‘br /’

You’ve also wrapped font tags around soem sections of text. Font tags are also not in teh XHTML spec. You could try getting the desired effect using classes and defining them in your CSS.

Under ‘Recent Entires’ your first unordered list (‘ul’) using the clas s ‘menublock’ isn’t closed. All tags in XHTML must have a closing pair or self close. You also at least one occasion in your main content where you double the opening ‘p’ tag but only close one.

You really need to use a validator and see all the errors in the page and then clean them up. Once you’ve done that you will have likely fixed most of your trouble spots.

Additionally, you’ll have a real tutorial for your readers: Writing valid code.

XHTML validation report:https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdesignnewbie.com%2Fwhere-to-start%2F

1) instead of p align=”center” use the div’s id of ‘menu-right-right’ and set its image attributes to centre the images in the column.
2) In more general terms your page is a mix of HTML and XHTML tags and methods. For example, you don’t need to use br tags of either flavour to space elements. That’s the job of your stylesheet padding/margin settings.

Dunno what the Mooose is experiencing, but when I place a new theme, or even a renamed copy of one of the 2 install themes, they aren’t recognized and presented as options in the control panel.

Themes are usually downloaded separately from WordPress. To install a theme you generally just need to put the theme file or files into your wp-content/themes directory. Once a theme is installed, you may select it here.

Did all of that. So what do you do when “generally” doesn’t apply to you?