Thomas Griffin

Hmm,

Since the DataTables is used in correlation with the JS, if I am not using the JS Library for the table, technically I can comment out the parts that aren’t validating in order to make the CSS validate?

Correct me if I am wrong, but it should be fine if I’m not choosing to use the JS options for the table.

Thomas

Nevermind again..didn’t realize transparency would render the boxes gray!

Sometimes I just need to blurt out my questions to answer them myself ??

Thanks for making this awesome plugin!

Ok I did run into a problem. Here it is:

Instead of using images, I am trying to use background images for each element that needs an image. Background images won’t be so rough on the load time for the page that has my table. However, when I use background images, the whole element background turns gray. I’m not sure why it does this, and not sure how to fix it. Here is an example of what is in my CSS:

.custom #content .wp-table-reloaded tr.row-2 td.column-2, .custom #content .wp-table-reloaded tr.row-2 td.column-3, .custom #content .wp-table-reloaded tr.row-2 td.column-4 { background: transparent url('images/checkyes.png') no-repeat center center; }

Any ideas what is up?

Nevermind, I found a way to do it..but it requires so much coding lol. Maybe in a future update add a way to dynamically add classes to specific columns and rows?

Thanks man! I would agree with you there (I had something different, but they didn’t like it), but they loved the font and were like “omg, can we use this font for those headers??”. I guess we’re always at the mercy of our client’s will lol!

You website is nice! I love the big image hover for the splash page (even though I don’t care much for splash pages, I am a HUGE fan of image hovers :)).

I would get yourself some pretty permalinks to make your site more professional, and try to brand those little inkheads some more (like have each on the sidebar headers as you have for your tweets). I would also add a little padding to the bottom of your images that display on your home page. For the images that don’t have whitespace on the bottom, it looks a little bit too close to the text. So maybe tack on a class to the image and add padding-bottom: 10px to it (or whatever makes it look cleaner).

Other than that, awesome site! Do you do well selling your own products?

Awesome! Thanks for the compliment. ??

Any tips? Critiques? Advice? Questions? ??

I’ve got a new website coming up in about 3 weeks for another client – a very highly customized version of Thesis. I think you will be surprised at the versatility of Thesis. ??

P.S. My client loves the site! He’s even asked me to be his go-to designer for future projects and wants me to build a complex application form! Thanks for all your help and critiques – it has really paid off!

wrmineo – I darkened it up some to make it more visible. Good call!

christopherros – I hand coded it myself using the text widgets. For the drop cap, I just added a <span class="drop_cap"></span> tag around the first letter and then styled it accordingly in the stylesheet.

As for the thumbnail, I just uploaded the images my client sent me to the media library, then selected the 150×150 thumbnail to use on the Services page. Then for each respective page I just placed the original image in the top left corner.

I started using WordPress right as 2.9 came out, so I never knew the time when the post thumbnails weren’t available..so I guess you could say that those thumbnails did use v2.9 ??

UPDATE: site is now XHTML 1.0 valid..CSS, however is not valid in 2 areas.

The opacity selector does not validate for IE..I don’t really know any way around this..so I’m just going to leave it as it is. Everything else is perfectly valid!

Any more suggestions?

Rich – I agree with you..I’m not a big fan of the dropdown, but my client wanted it so I had to include it. I thought the services tab would have been just fine because it contains all the necessary info..but you gotta please the clients ??

And getting it validated is a good idea. I think cforms has one thing that won’t validate…but it’s for Mozilla 2..so I’ll just edit it and get it fixed up. Thanks for the comments!

@andreas – This is a custom build based off of the Thesis theme.

@shalzerz – got the sitemap error fixed. I’ve tried to get the submenu to flash..but can’t do it. What browser are you using?

Rich,

Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot that I had fiddled with a separate div container and didn’t remove it. It was set to 942px for width, which caused the horizontal scroll bar. That is now fixed.

Also fixed an issue with the arrows for the jQuery slider. I forgot to add in the div that contained the whole slider. Once I put that in place, everything fixed itself.

Anymore suggestions?

Going along with all of this, how would I go about importing my current live site database into this test site database? I think that would help me out a lot.

Ok, got the excerpt part down..but I still cannot figure out how to format archives to show the amount of results I want. It still sticks with how many ever posts I display on my main index page. Is there any way to set a different number of posts to show up in archives?

I am shocked at how easy of a fix this is…and it has zero hassle.

All I had to do was add true to the end of the wp_register_script, so that it now looks like this:

if( !is_admin()){
	wp_deregister_script('jquery');
	wp_register_script('jquery', ("https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"), false, '1.3.2', true);
	wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}

Now the script is loading at the bottom of the page..and the site loads up even faster!

Thanks for your help.