regina

I can view your blogger source. hmm. but anyway.. I’ll try to help you out just from looking at it.
I would basically copy your entire blogger template into a blank notepad (or whatever you use) file and just start replacing tags. don’t try to “modify” the wp template it came with. big pain in the butt, easier to start fresh. once you’ve replaced all the tags you can with their equivalents, see which blogger ones still need to be deleted and which wp ones need to be added. by the looks of it, there shouldn’t be many. just look in the wiki documention for any tag you need. once you have all your tags in place, it’s easy. all your css is pointing to the right things, so the tweaking will be minimal. simply stick your blogger css info into a css file, name it (I would recommend naming it something OTHER than the wp default, so you will have the original as a backup), and upload everything. them you’ll just have to fix minor errors that come up instead of tearing down other css and layout files.
hope that makes sense. ??

that’s got to be the most diplomatic response I’ve ever seen. worthy of congress, I say. LOL

is my computer a glorified doorstop, or can I not view your wordpress page source? weird. I was going to try to help you out, but I can’t without seeing the source and css file. damn machine.

lovely job! I understand what you’re saying, especially about the cursing. ??

notoriouz,
you should look it up. I would think your yahoo control panel would tell you the exact name of your database, and you could see whether it is [username]_[databasename]. then stick that in your wp-config.php file and hopefully that will get everything up and running! good luck!

okay, just a quick question.. is your database named ‘wordpress’?
it would be helpful if you could copy and paste the EXACT information given to you regarding your database name and username (minus the password of course) so we can help.

okay, well.. if you put your ul back in, try this:
#menu ul {
line-height: 1em;
}
#menu li {
line-height: 1em;
}
it might force the spacing the way you want. I can’t help too much more without seeing the actual behavior of the ul within your source code.

I’m using IE6, and there appears be a border on the right hand side of the table. did you find your solution?

oohhh.. *takes the zip and makes a break for it* lol. useful script.

my suggestions, although I give no guarantees ?? :
try putting
background-image: url(“bg.jpg”);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:top left;
in your body tag to fix the bg position.
adjust the size of your content id to squeeze your table into the frame.
width:521px;
you can also try to narrow the gap between the left frame margin and the beginning of the text by reducing this pixel amount in your content id.
left:20px;
those are just the ideas right off the top of my head. hope they help.

interesting site! I didn’t even know they were coming out with another king arthur movie. good to know. site look great in IE6.

did you try your username as ‘bigboy@localhost’ instead of just ‘bigboy’? don’t know if that will work, but it’s worth a shot.

silverbear,
if you really want to learn and understand this crazy stuff, practice everything that you come across. if you want to learn how to do tables, sit down and play with all the table code you can find. see how it works, and how it won’t work. I recommend viewing the source code of a website that you like to see how they do it (not copying and pasting their code, of course!). ?? and start off with the basics – trying to master ssi and php before you understand html is probably not going to work. and you have your own domain, which will make learning all the easier because you have space AND control and can do pretty much whatever you please, stuff I would have liked when I was learning! and if you need help figuring something out, ask – us techie people are always wanting to flex our muscles and show off how smart we are! LOL

also, just to add on to other reply, once you connect to your site via ftp, different programs let you chmod differently. some you can just type “766”, but other (like the one I use) make you select various options. if yours makes you select, this might help.
766 means:
OWNER: read, write, execute
GROUP: read, write
WORLD: read, write
and to chmod, open your ftp program, login and stuff. go to your index.php file. right click, select ‘properties’ or something like that. this USUALLY will lead to a chmod section. then just enter the information. every program is a little different.
good luck!

thank you so much!