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Are you writing xHTML or HTML? If you write xHTML, then a linebreak is <br />, but in regular HTML, you get <br>… so that may be a reason.

scratch that… took a look at your code… you have to use all lowercase in your markup when you use an XHTML doctype.

as for the del tags, I didn’t look too deeply, but from the validator’s notes, it may just be some quotes left open somewhere?

like, create a new button that will insert arbitrary code, like, say a link that has a specific class already attached?

yeah. You’ll have to hack the quicktags.js file in the wp-admin directory. I did so to add a button that inserts a link with a rel=”external” (how my external links are marked for some scripting tricks). My code was just this:
edButtons[edButtons.length] =
new edButton('ed_xtnl'
,'xlink'
,'<a href="https://" rel="external" title="Opens in a new window">'
,'</a>'
,'x'
);

All that really does is throw the empty anchor tag in the box when you click the button once, and closes it on the second hit. Whee.

You can also do what I do, and use sIFR to have Flash dynamically render your headlines in whichever font you choose.

More on sIFR.

Works great over here in Safari. Even IE/Mac works nicely.

As for the “edit” button… i’m assuming you mean the edit button on each post. One thing you have to remember is that it only shows up when you are logged in as the admin. The reason it is (most likely) not working in Safari, yet works in Firefox, is (possibly) that you are logged in in Firefox, and not in Safari, thus the “edit” doesn’t show. Just my 1/50 of a dollar.

thanks everyone. ??

Oh, and this isn’t a plugin, but the header text is done via sIFR.

Ah, plugins… well, one’s i care to mention right now:

• Chris Coggburn’s Audioscrobbler plugin
• Dumb Comments Link
• Flickr Gallery
• Gravatar
• A hacked up version of Moose Candy (I changed it so I could use it to add the onion skinned dropshadow on my first listed post)
• MyStuff (even though it has stopped working since the upgrade… well, the admin page. If I get some time I might figure out what’s wrong)
• Official Comments (to highlight my comments)
• Previous Posts
• RunPHP
• SpamKarma (oh how I love this…)
• Dunstan’s Time of day
• WP-Amazon (another one that stopped working when I upgraded)
• Last but definitely not least… WP Plugin Manager. Love. ??

The family site looks quite sharp. Nicely done. Is the photo section something under development? Just wondering, as the link brought up nothing. All in all, though, it’s very well put together.

And bravo on the chops. ?? I myself am prone to facial hair experimentation…

a few problems over here first (in Safari/Omniweb):

1. The sidebar isn’t floating to to the right (as it does in Firefox). My site does this in IE/MAC (which doesn’t worry me too much), and it used to do it in IE6/WIN. The problem in windows was a really weird bit with the content being slightly too wide in one section, and IE decided to break the float.
2. The ornament that sits at the end of each post in Firefox is showing up in odd places in Safari. Might have to do with the 40px on the position… I’m not sure, but I know Safari sometimes has issues with some lesser used background-position methods (ie, not left bottom or the like). I’d probably add this ornament via a background-postion: bottom center; (and if it’s slightly off, make it up via the graphic. But that’s me.

Aside from that, I like the look. Fits well with the name. May want to credit squidfingers with the background pattern… he doesn’t require it, but it’s always nice.

From the plugin site:

Some web hosts disable PHPa€?s eval() function if you are using PHP as a module and not as a CGI. (I believe Dreamhost does this.) If this is the case you will have to switch over the the method that allows PHP to execute its eval() function.

Perhaps its something to do with your host?

yeah, i seem to have the worst luck with hosts…

thanks for the comments.

have you tried the Flickr Gallery plugin? That’s how I use my Flickr account to show a gallery on my site.

(cute pictures, by the way).

you’ve checked the eval() Content box under the Allow Pings in the edit page?

Looks great in Safari, OmniWeb, and Opera 8(beta). No problems I can see.

the template method seemed to kind of go against the whole reason I was moving this to the “Pages” system… easy editing and maintenance. That and the methodology seemed a bit odd… anyway, the RunPHP plugin worked perfectly. Thanks.