music_man

Thank you for the links.

The lists have no padding or margins anyway. I just cannot figure out why there is that gap when there is absolutely no padding in the list (except fot the a tags which have a 10px padding, but that is 10px all over and shouldn’t affect it).

I would very much like to not use a table but I cannot find any viable alternative (as I use png’s with transparency and IE doesn’t like that). I also find that positioning them very difficult.

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Thanks for your replies. I have got rid of the h1’s etc and replaced them with divs and p’s.

I tried adding your CSS suggestion but it affected the rest of the page, just not the navigation.

I have corrected the code for the index page and it is now valid XHTML strict 1.0. There is still the problem with the gaps in the
<li>‘s though.</li>

Thank you for bringing the omission of ul to my attention. I use h1 etc tags because of a SEO tutorial I read, I also think that using <br /> rather than <p> </p> is better. I am sure I didn’t use that many <br />‘s.

I have tried having the images as a background image but it proves exceedingly difficult and it makes the png’s non transparent.

Why can’t I have an h3 tag?

I’m finding it quite hard to validate my code and fix these formatting errors for firefox/opera. Not sure what I’m doing wrong with the CSS.

WordPress automatically inserts tags which the validator has an issue with. Any ideas please?

I use the w3 validator most times – only I haven’t got to that part yet.

I am aware of the faults of Internet Explorer but I disagree that I should use firefox for design. 90% of viewers are on IE. I know my site should work with all browsers, however I will endeavour to accomodate IE.

As this site was just made and I am error checking I hardly call it my mistake.

Thank you for the help.

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It’s my own theme. Hm I wonder why Opera stuffs up. The CSS code is pretty good… Thank you very much for the help.

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Funny you should say “debate theme” I spent countless hours designing that theme. Ah well. It obviously doesn’t work. I know it is not ideal for a debating site. I would like to have icons to say whether they agree or not and having top debates, affirmative and negative options and quick posting (not having to go to another interface via admin) and other features.

It is more suited for a forum but when I had a forum (which was the original concept) they were too hard to modify and they look so empty without lots of posts. With WordPress I could modify the theme and add things via plugins. Having it in a blog sort of layout I thought would compell people to write longer articles and give people easier access to them.

I am competing against other popular blogs and news sites and it is very hard to get my foot through the door. I am not sure what theme to use that can accomodate my ideas for this site nor do I know how to get people to post (some seem to reply readily enough) but it is rare that somebody starts their own topic.

I have my own blog which I don’t really care how many people look at. I thought the more content the better and I have had some trouble sorting out permalinks with some plugins.

I can’t have just a single topic and post to that, for the idea is for other people to post and get debates going. I have separated them out into categories and perhaps I could have columns on the page which lists the latest post from each category.

Thank you for your suggestions.

Could you argue that having permalinks – which makes it easier to understand the content of the link – is the price to pay for a lower search ranking (assuming this is correct).

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https://www.debate.co.nz

I am not sure if it is for archives. Say I make a new category and write a post for it – that would create a link in the sidebar – that link in the sidebar would go to my category.php file which would list that post only (as it is the only post in that category).

Thanks

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Say you click on “politics” from the sidebar, you will be taken to “category.php” which lists all the posts from “politics” only.