liverpoollad

I’ve just looked at 6 3 column themes offered for download, 2 or 3 sidescroll, but all invalidate in the xhtml if you test them out.

That was the first 6 downloads of three column themes, although many errors will likely be widget errors, most of the theme examples seem to be crammed full of Google ads, which makes me wonder at the purpose of offering themes.

I think theme downloads, or the example page, ought to validate. I want to see a verifed theme before I install it.

All these WP themes are on the WP codex website.

Resiny, the theme is just a basic three column that fits into a 800 resolution monitor without scrolling. It looks ok on big 19″ lcd also. The 3 columns appear on all pages.

It validates with css and xhtml.

It is a foundation worth keeping, and there are plenty of WP themes which go for 3 columns, but not many can be read on a 800 or even 1024 monitor without the dreaded sidescroll.

It also offers a nice sliced header, or just a single image if you want.

I think the basic foundation of the design is good, and will continue to ammend it till I think it is good enough to offer.

Your widgets will not work unless the theme has them included, generally in the sidebar (s)

All you need to do is find the code for each widget, then copy it to the sidebar of whatever theme does not have that particular widget.

Few themes will include widgets, and there are so many widgets that no-one designing a theme could really attempt to do a crowd pleaser in that respect.

Thanks Handy Solo, as it happens it looks like there is some useful stuff there which I’ll try out later.

Besides, the plug I used was throwing up xhtml errors, solved them by messing with the php but the advice you point to sounds easier.

Thanks for taking the time to post.

Sorry to go on, but the Mr Peer theme switcher actually stops me from editing any of the themes in my WP user control panel when I install this plug in.

If I click on a theme to edit, I get sent to the home page of the website and cannot edit any files.

This happens in IE and Firefox.

If I deactivate the plug in, I can edit themes from the control panel. I’m not sure why this is so, but so it is, and I suppose I can deal with it until someone has a better solution on this problem.

I suppose deactivating the plug is no big deal and the bonus is that you can choose what styles you want listed as you get another add on section to the plug in editor which lets you do that.

All in all I can live with this plug in as it works with WP 2.02.

It was built for WP 1.5, so cannot really blame whoever made it.

I’ve found a theme switcher by Mr Peer
and it is at Version 2.0, I think.

This one has an option in the plug in editing pages that allows you to choose which themes are included.

Works a treat so far, using Firefox and viewing a WP 2.02 blog.

Im using Ryan Boren

Author URI: https://boren.nu/

Adapted from Alex King’s style switcher and one linked to here.

I’ll try another switcher out

The problems back again

Anyone?

Just use the Css to make the post title have an image as a background. Be careful if you intend to use text also, but if you just want an image for your post headings, this is the best way to do so, in my opinion.

I’ve put slices in a header and just followed the advice of one of the mods here

\<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/img/bannerslice.gif” width=”1″ height=”15″ alt=”spacer” />\

(leave out the \ at either end of the code above)

Just point to your url using the code above, it works like a charm

Also works to just have a normal image included

You seem to have several instances of the same div in the sidebar holding all the links and adverts.

Try to drop the advert that slips out into the div above called articleright, it might stay there.

I see the adverts also in an iframe which might not be covered in the css but is floated by the javascript which I presume you use to put the adverts in.

wsperuzzi

The header needs resizing.

Do it so that it covers just the top of the main and sidebar, it hangs over a little, and is easily solved.

It is a nice design, but i’d also look at that header and perhaps do it in a png as it would look real sharp, unless you’ve gone for a specific grainy or blurred look.

You can put images in the header and rather than use image slices with all sorts of complicated code and messy tables, it is best to use css and do roll overs that way with the a and a:hover using specific divs, instead of javascripts and so on.

I’m working on something which will allow a header to have a roll over menu using css. It would be quite a long css sheet if you were to use ten or twenty divs with seperate rollovers, but I think the image file size could kept to below 50k even with 20 odd rollovers.

You could do an advent calendar this way.

Hmmm

The problem has gone now, inasmuch as I can see the themes.

I’m not sure if it is standard in WordPress 2.02 viewed through FireFox (latest release) to have a page which says ‘OK, the document has moved here’ when you change the themes.

Is this just the way it is?

I’d prefer the theme to just alter without the add on page from FF, but I’m not a snob and will take this as standard if its the way it is.

WordPress Css is carefully designed and is spot on out of the box.

While it is true that one minor Css error can cause real heartache, we have to remember that with no Css, you’d be hand coding thousands of pages. Css is a beautiful thing, although you might not think so if your websites got errors.

WordPress is not coded sloppily, the Css offers every angle you need. If you want to add a break, I can see your point, but all you need to do is release a hack so that breaks are added, or paragraphs taken away and so on.

Remember also that the css works with the html, so you need to position each div in the html so that it is called up in the right order.

A link to the website affected would be nice, and we can download the Css file that way and maybe work it out.