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Here’s a link to what I’ve done so far, with screencaps. FYI: This was done with the latest version of Office 2007, not the beta.

https://www.spittleandink.com/isis/img/wordblogging/wordblogging.htm

For what it’s worth, allegedly Word 2007 strips all non-standard HTML out of the document, allowing for “clean” HTML blogging with minimal code.

I use Word during the day so much, it might be useful to be able to blog while in it. Or not… we’ll see.

I’ll test it out and report back. Thanks for the tip re: xmlrpc.php. Should help me set it up easily… hopefully!

This is going to sound stupid, but I just did THIS TODAY, so it could be your problem?

I unzipped a few plugins to the appropriate LOCAL folder for my site, and then couldn’t figure out why they weren’t loading in Dashboard. Simple… I never uploaded them! I was looking at my local file set, not the remote set on the server. I use Dreamweaver, and never hit the “Put files” button!

Hopefully you’re not as stupid as I am, but I’m just throwing that one out there….

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I made a mistake in my explanation of margin syntax. The numbers align with THIS:

TOP RIGHT BOTTOM LEFT

Doh!!!

Search pulled up nothing. Zip. I don’t know if search was broken or not earlier, but anything I entered came up empty.

In any event, if you DO manage to get hits on that search phrase you find (as one mod put it rudely) “over 2,000 hits.” After scanning through more than 60 (!) of them, I found that NONE had an answer. They all went like this: someone asks about the dropping sidebar, and then someone else makes a rude comment about searching for it. No resolutions.

A search yield of 1 million hits does nothing if the results are just other people telling you to search. It’s a Moebius strip.

So, left to my own devices, here’s how I fixed the problem. (I’m posting this in the slim hope that someone here will find THIS thread that actually has an answer in it.)

Using the Kubrick template, I went into the style.css and modified the formatting for .narrowcolumn and .widecolumn so that ALL the paddings and margins were 0 px. This restored the sidebar to the side, but also tightened things a bit.

For my site, the styles now read as follows:

.narrowcolumn {
float: left;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 120px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
width: 500px;
}

.widecolumn {
float: left;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 120px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
width: 500px;
}

For anyone reading this unfamliar with the syntax, for both padding and margins, the four numbers go like this:

LEFT TOP RIGHT BOTTOM

So in my example above, the bottom margin is set to 120 pixels. Since the bottom margin doesn’t affect the sidebar, I left it alone.

You can’t go by mine for sure, however, since I’ve already played with the stock Kubrick CSS a bit to widen the page. So for my site, both the narrow column and wide column are 500 px wide. In short, your mileage will vary.

This solution works for those whose dropping sidebar problem was NOT due to an erroneous over-wide picture in a post, or some other weird anomaly.

The best way to get consistent results in FF, IE6 and IE7 is to UN-PAD the format… take out margins and padding for various callouts until you find the one that fixes it.

Now, of course, I have to test my site for Netscape and Opera. Lord know what I will find.

Hope that helps someone.

With all due respect, I did the search EXACTLY as you suggested, and a few permutations, and it comes up with nothing. Not a single entry. Nada.

Perhaps before assuming folks are too dumb or blind to see the “HUGE text field, top of forum index”, we should all try a little patience.

We should also recognize that the search feature here on the forum is sorely lacking.

Meanwhile, I’m going to go back and keep looking for another answer somewhere, for the same problem posed by the original poster.

The RSS importer is not working… not sure why. Perhaps it is a problem with Simpleblog’s RSS code.

When I import with it, all I get is a single blog entry imported, with no content and a headline that reads this:

” & Rs(”b_headline”) & “

Now Simpleblog’s RSS feed file links to two include files; either leaving those references in, or deleting them, seems to have no effect.

Ideas?

I had the same problem. I went into my website’s control panel, via the hosting company’s interface, and had to manually turn on PHP, PERL, and CGI services. I use Interland (Web.com) so it was easy. Depending on what provider you are using, it may be different.

I also needed to manually set index.php as a “default” page, so that when Word Press installation tried to go to a directory, you wouldn’t get the “directory browsing not allowed” error message.