liverpoollad

Firefox issues sorted apart from a small issue with page posts needing to have more of a margin, or something. I’ll sort that tommorow.

I see the point about colour, but you’ll see a few themes appear in the website/blog as I tweak it, and I’ll repost here when I do so.

I’m taking onboard all the suggestions and will redesign to make it at least easy to navigate.

I’ve just installed firefox and see the issues there, but should not be a problem to solve.

The colours don’t matter much as I can alter them. Too much red? Perhaps, but the main text area, is plain black on white.

In what way do the links look ‘wierd’? Do you think plain links would be best? With no bullet and hover bullet?

I suppose its a bit crowded, but with 3 columns in 800px its hard to look spacious.

The site will have at least 35 banners, and I’ll style each theme to refelct that, hence the red theme you see right.

Monkeypup, I’m not sure how to take the ‘AHHHH!’. Can you be a little but more, constructive?

What I release will have no images, just a fill in banner and Css divs once I’v cleared up the Firefox fixes.

You can run many instances of WordPress on the one database, you just need to alter the table prefix in the config.php file

If you open one up, it points were you need to alter the table prefix, I usually just put wp_1 and wp_2 and so on.

It will be the Css that is making people scroll the screen and I’ve seen a few blogs do this.

Best way to stop it is to resize the actual div for the rap, then take off the size of the main content, and the sidebar.

If you size the rap under 800px, say 780, the blog will always be good to view, and if people on under 800 resolution screens need to scroll, I draw the line there and just expect them to scroll.

You can use % sizes, but all that means is that your layout is different on each computer, and the nice paragraph on one pc is just one line on another.

Try posting the sizes of the rap and main content and sidebar in your blog

If you look for WordPress themes (there are hundreds) you’ll find a few versions with two sidebars.

For the calendar, first download it, then read the intructions, each one has instructions which allow you to copy and paste the php code for the calendar into your sidebar.

A well designed blog easy to read and fast to load.

As above, perhaps shaving that little bit off the sides of the banner would be about the only aesthetic thing to do.

Quite a few people with cancer do this sort of thing, and needless to say I wish you well and pray all goes well with your treatment.

Good luck

The test of your article, was it typed up in a word editing software then uploaded to the blog to be published?

I find that copying from Word and pasting it into WordPress will invalidate the html.

As for validating the blog, it ought to be done by people who have a bit of html knowledge. Out of the box, WordPress is spot on, it is the user that invalidates the code

As for errors on WordPress, it is a massive website with tens of thousands of pages. The Wc3 website also invalidates on some pages if you look.

There is no way we can expect the average user of WordPress to validate the html and css, but if you build a website using WordPress as the engine and have an important website, you have to make the effort to win the nice little Css and Xhtml validated logo.

The only two real ways to mess up a WP blog is widgets and like I said, copying stuff from Word and so on, which keeps the formatting only Microsoft could manage, with each sentance marked up with html.

The best way to solve this is to go to the html code and put in the exact image size there.

You can see the html code in the post section if you click on it.

I created a home.php file, and when altering this file in WordPress, I found that alterations were shown as I open up the to the home directory of that installation.

I thought that creating this page would not do anything until I followed the intructions that filosofo includes with his plug in – it was reading some of that which must have prompted me to create the home.php file, I don’t know php but can copy and paste and alter little bits of it.

I thought that just pointing my url address to the home.php file would sort out a ‘homepage’ for me, and that to create the home page I’d just copy the index page, and add anything I needed.

I guess I’ll be trying this plug in in about a minutes time.

Cheers.

Edited –

Ah, it was your page which prompted me to do the home.php, which does work, but you’d need to take out the loop (I think) which brings the posts to that page.

I guess I want WordPress as a sort of CMS to make it easier to maintain websites and to structure all websites on.

For most people the plug in is the way to go, but I’m already deep into this messing with the php and will keep my home page.

The white text on a kind of light blue background is a bit of a put off, but I suppose the excitement of your second anniversery is all too much.

I’d also organise the sidebar better.

You ought to have a button to switch off that video, part of disablity standards.

My first website was basically an animated gif waiting for an epilptic to sue me.

I don’t think thats the best of themes though, mostly due to the colour, though the graphics are nice enough.

Why not just have the usual links and catorgaries and the Rss and suchlike?

Good luck regardless.

To have the Rss feed you put something like this in the sidebar or wherever you want it

-<h2><?php _e('RSS Feeds:'); ?></h2><br />
This website uses 'Really Simple Syndication' or Rss.<br />
<a title="RSS2 Feed for Posts">">Posts</a> | <a title="RSS2 Feed for Comments">">Comments</a>-

I removed the mention of the font face in the calendar php file and all is well.

Cheers Jonlandrum, you’ve saved my day.

Thanks Jonlandrum, I’ll take a look at what’s going on – I suspected the calendar as it is usually the sidebar widgets that throw up errors.

If I remove the calendar there are no errors, so it is that damned widget again.

Change the theme by just deleting the one thats giving problems.

If you have a free hosted blog, use the meta link to access admin then switch the theme to default WordPress.

Be it the line height of the text, or the height of some line, it will be the Css that offers hope there.

I’ve not used this theme as I’ve been trying to do the same myself, inasmuch as making the sidebar (two in this case) appear on all pages.

I’ll put up a test page and link soon, but the main difficulty I found was that WordPress does have a lot of different sized fonts here and there.

WordPress is great for dipping your toes in php, and to ‘copy and paste’ glory as you move bits of that php code and see it work.