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Recent tunes allows you to upload loads of data in relation to what you’re playing, although what you do with it is up to you.

Recent Tunes
Recent Tunes stores a list of recently played iTunes songs in your menu bar for quick access. Choosing a recently played tune from the list immediately plays the song in iTunes. Version 2.0 adds the ability to upload files to your Web server (via FTP, SSH1, or SSH 2) or to a database (via HTTP GET) – perfect for bloggers looking to post a list of their Recent Tunes online!

The section you’re looking at refers to css, not the html. Image maps use img tags, which are html. You need to add the tag wherever you want it to appear within the template. As such it has nothing to do with php, the php is server side and outputs html to your browser so that when viewed a raw html and a php generated page would look no different (apart from the actual content).
Not being familiar with kubrick I can’t tell you where you would need to put your image map, although I assume from the css reference you want it as a header.

<rant>Calling IE forgiving would be one way of putting it, IE being wrong would be another. If this “forgiving” aspect had not been included in the first place it wouldn’t have resulted in people thinking that alt was the same as title and we wouldn’t now have the problems of people wondering why they don’t have tooltips.</rant>

I haven’t looked at the css or xhtml in any detail but I think it may be to do with the fact that your menu is relatively positioned, I would guess that the gap under your content is the same height as your menu. Basically the menu is within the flow of the page and is extending the overall height accordingly, however when you reposition it (top:-450px) then it appears where you want but in context to the html it is still causing the overflow.
Since your content is set to be a fixed size you could probably get away with absolutely positioning the menu. Of course this could cause problems if people resize text but so do most designs potentially.

Do you mean that if someone has other sections (such as an about page, gallery etc) they get called through the same index.php?

textarea is an input so not remotely applicable for your usage. Why not just leave the content within the storycontent div and style that appropriately?
You can style a div to look like a default textarea and similarly you can style a textarea to look like any other element on a page, basically you can make them look however you want. You just have to use the right element for the job semantically, as it appears to just be a styling job then a div should be fine, just add the appropriate css.

I can never remember which (maybe both) but just set padding/margin to 0px.

I really need to tidy up my custom fields plugin so that other people can use it, mine integrates with a custom version of PHPCurrently (which would do what you want on it’s own really) so you can update it from within a post or just read in the existing value(s) as well as offering an asides function, related links, signatures (per-post or drawn from an external file or in this case invision forums) , rating of your post (reviews) and various other bits and pieces, but is chock-full of custom code and is a tad bloated as it’s just sort of grown over time. *adds to list of things to do*

As I recall, if the font-size for something is set as px then IE can’t resize it.

If it’s just css you want to edit, use firefox and download the webdeveloper extension and test your css in real time, live on your site (or any other) it won’t help with other browser testing but it’s incredibly useful generally.

Google has a browser?

<meta name=”Description” content=”your text” /> works. Alteratively you could just enter the appropriate text on your front page so that it onlys shows if say the query string is empty.

The first / in /archives/2004/18/08/hello-world/ would take you to the root of your domain, if you’re running wordpress a sub-folder the links would be not be relative to each other. If it’s not a bug in the wordpress .htaccess generation it’s most likely to be a misconfiguration of your urls, possibly you have it defined as being installed somewhere else than it actually is. Without a url tis a bit hard to say exactly.
As an example if you have: https://www.domain.com and your wordpress in https://www.domain.com/blog/ then a link of: /archives/2004/18/08/hello-world/ on a page in your blog folder would lead you to: https://www.domain.com/archives/2004/18/08/hello-world/ not https://www.domain.com/blog/archives/2004/18/08/hello-world/

I’ve been having the same thoughts of late and have even created a seperate page that displays the calendar on it’s own in a large format, admittedly I’ve yet to remove the smaller version as I’ve got some changes to make in my sites custom coding so that other people on my site can still display it if they wish.
It has to be said that I do prefer that at least it’s available, it’s not hard to remove.

Primarily, editing index.php shouldn’t really be about the design at all, it and any other html should only really be edited if you want to alter the content. Your content can then be styled via your css. If you’re editing your index.php in order to provide extra/different hooks for your css (3 column layouts etc) then that’s fine but to me that implies you have enough knowledge of css in the first place to justify needing those changes.
It does kind of irritate me when so many people moan about WordPress being difficult to style, it’s not WordPress at all. Admittedly a person may find css tricky at first but it’s not WordPress’ fault, WordPress tries to do things properly, once you grasp the principles of css then it becomes much easier than the non-css equivelant, although as with anything the more you practise the more you learn and the better you get at it.
Similarly when people say that you can’t use tables with wordpress, that’s rubbish, you can use what you want. Why should WordPress deliberately degrade itself in order to propogate backwards methods of doing things? Having the css in a seperate file is how it should be, for one it makes offering multiple styles much easier.
It strikes me as odd that so many people want to use WordPress but don’t want to bother learning the basics of how to use the fundamental tools and practices that it utilises (I’m not implying people learn php or anything that drastic). If someone doesn’t want to use css or “proper” html then as previously stated there are other solutions (like blogger), if you want the advanced functions of WordPress surely it’s worth putting a small bit of effort into learning how to get the most from it? And of course css isn’t just for wordpress, it will help someone to build the rest of their site as well.
Rant over.