kickass

Though I’m all for saving bandwidth, I think commenting and easy to read and decipher css is a great thing if I have to go in and change something. The few bytes I’ve “wasted” can save me a LOT of time if I have to go in and make a change. Or it can lead someone else right to the change they want to make if I let a theme design out to the general public, which I’m planning to do soon.

Re font sizing– I think defining it on the body by using a word, like “small” is best, then using percentage adjustments on divs, tags, or classes which you wish to appear different. This gives the most easy to resize result across browserland. Pixel sizes are sometimes a problem (in IE I believe) and older browsers can’t handle ems well at all. There is no such thing as a “standard” font size anyway, as I’m reminded every time I look at something on my half-blind friend Jerry’s computer and see all those HUGE letters on his screen.

FWIW, I think all css should be in the linked stylesheet in all themes. It defeats the purpose of easy edits when it is put in more than one place. I was glad when I found an article on how to “deconstruct” Kubrick before reconstructing it, that article shortcutted me a lot, since I would have been looking in the wrong places for things that were styled elsewhere than in the stylesheet. That article is here:
https://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/

Re resources for css:
https://css-discuss.org
https://css-discuss.incutio.com

I would never have learned css as fast as I did without this group. Eric Meyer is one of the group leaders and moderators. Holly Bergevin and Big John of positioniseverything.net, and Zoe, who also writes articles for communitymx are list members. They’re just a few of the many, many incredibly helpful and knowledgeable people who make up the list group. And when your theme isn’t working in IEMac– the answer is here.

Yes, that’s one solution, but only a partial one. If, as the article says, it’s allowing people to post whatever using some other username other than their own the possibilities for comment and MB spam become somewhat more serious to site owners. There is a fix posted, but that’s to block the IP of the google proxy that’s serving the GWA. Somehow that doesn’t seem appetizing, since it’s punishing the people who will not misuse the GWA. Apparently there’s also some changing of webcontent being served via the proxy going on as well (can we say AutoLinks Part 2?)

There are other issues- people using the accelerator, if they mouseover an ad on YOUR site, or a shopping cart button, it seems to be registering as a click even if the mousebutton is not used. What’s that doing to those of you who serve ppc ads??? It’s also screwing up the google adserver, and ignoring robots.txt. More here:

https://fantomaster.com/fantomNews/archives/2005/05/05/the-google-web-accelerator-fiasco/
https://www.threadwatch.org/node/2450#comment-14611
https://fantomaster.com/fantomNews/archives/2005/05/04/google-the-coming-out-of-a-datascraper-spook/
https://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050504-145307

So “Easy” becomes not so easy. Iit affects you if you have a site, even if you don’t use the GWA. Let’s face it, most, if not all, of the people on this support board have a site.

Feel free to voice your concerns with this issue here:
https://www.oag.state.ny.us/online_forms/complaint_misc.jsp

You might also find this series of articles helpful.

https://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/

I like your site! My only (very mild) criticism, which is very easily fixed, is the text area in the comments form, which extends outside on the left of the green box, into the white area. This can be easily fixed by creating a class and defining a width slightly narrower than that green box that the text area rests in.

Others have mentioned it too. I find that red bar at the top to be a bit visually jarring. Maybe if it was a bit vertically narrower it wouldn’t be so disturbing. It draws my eye away from the stuff you want me to read, which I’m sure isn’t your intent.

I testdrove in IE6 on win2k and couldn’t reproduce the error other people experienced. I will mention though that IE has issues with line height as well as certain fonts. These issues could be triggered by certain resolutions or screen sizes. Just a thought.

Sign me up for the Old Dog WP club . . . my first computer was an 8088.

This may be a dumb question but . . . did you “add” the user to the database?

The way I do it in cpanel is
1) create database
2) create user
3) add user to database

As long as you do those three steps everything works.

Andrew, this works well! I have no reason to install since my blog is so new it’ll get no use yet, but this plug a very fun addition to the list of WP add-ons. I think you just raised the bar for anyone thinking of building plugs for a future competition!

The final followup– I GOT IT WORKING!!! And I felt like a complete idiot for a few minutes when I realized what it might be, tried it and found out it was that SIMPLE LITTLE THING– but after re-reading the posts and info in answer to me, the other posts on the same topic in the support section I had found, the basic WP docs, and everywhere else BUT the codex, maybe it wasn’t quite my fault since the codex is the only place it’s mentioned prominently. Also, those of you who offer advice should add this little tidbit as the FIRST thing to ask re any permalink problem. There’s no criticism here, understand, just a re-aligning of your awareness of what (ignorant) mistake a newbie to this script might make given the current docs.

Are you ready for this one?

The .htaccess file has to be in the same directory as the wordpress installation.

Those of you who write the docs should add this prominently- everywhere. It also might have been helpful if it had been mentioned in the admin area entitled “Edit Permalink Structure” where it told me, very clearly, to edit the .htaccess file. I assumed, wrongly, it meant the one that I already had on my site, rather than one that needed to be created exclusively for my wp installation. If the necessary path of the .htaccess file had been mentioned there I would have paid attention, and it would have saved a whole bunch of people (including me) a whole lotta time.

Thank you all for your help, I now have a KICKASS WP installation with SE savvy permalinks!

If you are sincere about learning css, I suggest you consider joining this list, but I warn you, it’s not for the meek and you MUST follow rules for posting (like read the wiki first, validate your html and css, etc.) This is a very active and very helpful list and some of the members are top names in css development (people who author books . . .), but it’s also a very busy one, and list etiquette for that reason is very important.
https://www.css-discuss.org/

Just reading the wiki for the css-discuss list will give you a good education into what css is all about. Wiki is here:
https://css-discuss.incutio.com/

Have fun!

I very recently installed WordPress and built my own custom theme for my first one simply by following the first in this series of articles:
https://www.urbangiraffe.com/index.php?s=Dissection+of+a+WordPress+theme%3A+Part+1

It basically showed me what needed to be dealt with. Once I realized that 90% of it was in the css I grabbed the ball and ran for the touchdown– and scored. There are two more in the series that I’m sure will be helpful to those who are maybe not so css familiar.

Good luck!

Well, min-height is supposed to do that, but it doesn’t work in IE (oh, what a surprise! *cough*)

Some info and links here:
https://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FooterInfo

Two solutions:
https://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/09/16/minheight_fi/index.php
https://www.greywyvern.com/code/min-height-hack.html

and the one I ended up using(because it worked easiest for me– in all but IEMac):
https://doxdesk.com/software/js/minmax.html
https://doxdesk.com/file/software/js/minmax.js

Ya know, I just found that article last night and it did give me one more idea to try to get the dang thing working on the host I’m currently on, and I just haven’t had time to try it. But I thank you for the steer, that’s a really good and thorough article.

I don’t know the answer, but I can say this– I’m fairly new to WordPress and have not experienced any of what you’re speaking of, so I suspect the problem is specific to your installed version of WP or the way it’s interacting with your chosen host server.

I know that’s not terribly helpful, but I thought it was at least a useful piece of info to have.

Re wordpress hosting . . . yes, those hosts are on the shortlist, and I hope, if I choose one of those, you’re at least getting an affiliate fee. You folks deserve a bit of support for the good stuff you offer here.

Thank you ALL for your help and suggestions.