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Personally I feel that would look too messy – have you ever seen any websites with that structure?

Also bear in mind that although a lot of people have a widescreen now, there are still many users on old devices. That’s the reason so many webmasters are still designing on 900 wide and 1000 wide templates. I assume you’d need to make your site much wider to fit all that in – and people with old machines wouldn’t even see your leftmost or rightmost content.

A magazine style layout would give you the ability to show multiple post excerpts and ads, maybe that would be suitable?

You could also try a program like Artisteer, where you can design your own themes from scratch without needing to know HTML or CSS.

Thanks Esmi, I appreciate your help. Unfortunately I don’t understand the first thing about code, so most of these errors are Greek to me. Also, most of these errors are on links not created by me – the e-Junkie one is an affiliate link, for instance, copied and pasted direct from their site. And wouldn’t the links be broken if they were incorrect?

Thanks Esmi, I haven’t seen that tool before. I will try uploading the new theme again and run it.

However I must say, the tool does throw up a lot of results I don’t understand – why would it pick on links created by WordPress, not by me?

In the Appearance menu you’ll find a section called “Menus”.

Create a menu for your nav bar using the pages and categories you want. You’ll notice you can give each one a “navigation label”, so give “Home” the navigation label “Welcome”.

Give your menu a name and save it, then choose it as your primary menu in the drop down box on the left.

However personally I wouldn’t. People understand what a home page is, and might be confused if you don’t have one.

I’m having the exact same problem.

I know some people are going to think this is a silly question.

I can see in the instructions that I have to add a line of code to my template.

Which template? Single post? Page template? And where – right at the top, somewhere else? Help?

Google NoDaddy and you’ll find lots of people equally unhappy with GoDaddy hosting.

They’re OK for cheap domain names but not for hosting!

I’m with Hostgator and have found their Live Chat ultra-helpful. I’m a writer not a webmaster, really. I was nervous about transferring my sites from my old host and they just said “don’t worry, we’ll do it all for you”!! Great service.

Update: I’m now using AddThis instead – it allows you to add the icons before AND after, and it’s nice and light too.

I’d love to know too – if a wildcard feature was available, it would be exactly what I need!

I’d be happy if I could just place the Share This chicklets before the content on my post pages. It doesn’t need to be after as well.

I’m having the exact same problem. I used Amazon Autoposter with great success to set up three different websites – now when I go back to add more posts, it doesn’t work on any of them. I get the “skipped category link” every time.

Wondering whether it has anything to do with compatibility with the latest version of WordPress.

Donncha, I’m quite happy to be responsible for my site. I’m just saying that if any plugin needs more than a simple install/uninstall, it should come with a warning that it requires more technical knowledge than most plugins.

I’ve been running my site for over two years and this is the first time I’ve come across a plugin that requires technical knowledge to uninstall. That’s the beauty of WordPress – that it enables people who are not internet gurus to manage their own website. So I’m sure I’m far from the only webmaster to be tripped up by this kind of situation.

Sorry, this issue is now resolved. After some trial and error, I discovered that it’s the main index.php that’s the problem, not the one within the themes.

I had one theme which refused to upload properly – looks like in the process, it was overwriting the main index.php file. I copied a version from my other site and it’s working OK now.

Sorry I panicked!

Can’t help you I’m afraid. Do you have the problem with the sidebar dropping to the bottom in IE6?