tcervo

Heh, heh…don’t even go there ??

Right…turn off CSS (easily done if you have the WebDeveloper extenstion in Moz/Firebird) and view your nice WP CSS site…it’s not “pretty” but it’s very readable and useable. (Looks similar on a cellphone/PDA) Now, put in your “CSS” calendar and do the same test…a total mess. Unreadable senseless garbage.
Personally, I’m getting a bit tired of this argument. Many others have said it, I’ve said it, and it’s just a *fact* – TABLES are NOT EVIL. They still serve a very legitimate purpose – for TABULAR DATA. The “noobs who don’t want to upgrade” have nothing to do with it. The only argument regarding tables and web standards/css has to do with USING TABLES FOR PAGE LAYOUT. It has nothing to do with using tables for data. Learn the freakin’ difference!!!!!!!!
(Sorry. Been a long day and I’m a bit cranky.)

Have you tried explicitly defining the p tag for the storycontent class?
.storycontent p {…}
Might work…

True to an extent (no wrestling match intended), but it’s really more than just two lists…as those two are cross referenced, making it a bunch of lists. There’s a list of every date for a month that falls on a Monday, every date that falls on a Tuesday, etc. There’s, then, also every date that occurs in the first week, second week, third week…There’s also a list that tells you what day of the week any particular date occurs on…What’s date does the 2nd Saturday fall on? How about the fourth Sunday, if even one exists? etc…It’s a tabular way of displaying a whole bunch of information…many different views all in one neat package. It’s not practical to do that if it were just lists. Simply putting text into Excel cells doesn’t make it tabular data…there has to be a relationship…right?

What dougal said…and others before him, and probably more down the road…
To further illustrate his first point, here’s March 2004 as a list:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,…31
Sure, you *could* represent it as a *complete* list, but the extra redundancy is nuts:
Monday March 1: 2004, Tuesday March 2: 2004, Wednesday March 3: 2004, Thursday March 4: 2004…etc.
Since this is, in fact, tabular data, we could instead put the year and month in the caption, have a single header row for the days of the week,…you know, just like a calendar. Doing a calendar as an exercise in CSS is great, but insisting it should be used for WP to be “tableless” just doesn’t hold water.
As for the “CSS Tableless” thing, as long as tables are used for data and not presentation, the badge of honor still stands.

Zaaba,
What types of problems were you encountering with the example I posted? If we could solve whatever issues you’re having, it sounds like exactly what you want: it’ll return a random image NAME. You don’t have to alter any code…just drop a new image into the directory and it’s immediately available to the script.
Which part isn’t working?
Anon: thanks…
-Tony

Rino,
Ok, that makes some sense to me now…I’ve never used MT, so that type of syntax is a bit foreign…and doesn’t seem to be how WP is set up to operate.
Anyway, I’ll just agree with WillM that lists are returned as lists for the ease of use/protection of Joe User.
-Tony

do something akin to MT’s container functions wherein you call what you need and the “container” loops through the entire array for you.

Isn’t that what the template functions are doing? You call a template function, and it loops through the array for you…
Curious: when MT’s container functions loop through the array for you, what do they return to your template?
I really do want to know what this ellusive “resulting chunk” of data is, and how you would be free to mark it up how you want? If whatever you call returns something (previously refered to by anon as the “resulting chunk”), what are you going to do with it in your template? I’m at a complete loss as to how you would do anything with it…Unless of course you had the logic in the template: go to the database and get me all the classes and subclasses this item belongs to; as each one is returned, mark it appropriately as a list-item. It has to be done *somewhere*, right? I guess I’m just not getting your point here. If you say we wouldn’t be “adding logic to the template”, but you don’t want lists returned as marked-up lists, then when and how will they get marked up?

I know this may be messy, but have you tried putting your entire block on a continuous line (no breaks after dl’s, dt’s or dd’s)? That may avoid the p tags…

Stevarino (and anon#1) re: the paragraph tag:
I’ve only styled the blockquote tag, and even though there are paragraph tags inside the blockquote, it works just fine…

You’re missing a semi-colon after the border-left declaration. Also, just a style tip, try to use lowercase instead of all caps. Not sure it makes a difference, but it might in some browsers…Better safe than sorry.

Look at the forum links instead of the topic links. The topics will always be the most recent topics in any forum. On a day like today when there’s a ton of activity, particular topics will fall off the list if they’re not updated.
This topic (3 columns layout) is in the Design forum…

I would strongly recommend making a backup of your current index.php file. Then, re-upload the default index.php and wp-layout.css from the WordPress install files. View the site in your browser, then view the source it’s created. Take a look at each section: the different div’s, classes, etc. Then, one by one, make changes to the wp-layout.css file to style it the way you want. (Remember to make a backup.)
FYI: the default behavior, if you don’t change anything in index.php or wp-layout.css files, is for the categories under the post title to have NO bullets.
Looking at your code (as Anon said), you have two sets of html declarations, two sets of head tags, etc. You have a bunch of style near the top, but without a proper declaration. I’m not sure what all those font classes are for, but ok…The bottom line is, you should start from the beginning and make one change at a time until you get it the way you want. It looks as if something went wrong along the way, and trying to fix it as-is will probably drive you nuts. Take a deep breath, then dip your toes back in…slowly.
-Tony

Are you using the default wp-layout.css? If so, my previous code should work for the categories listed in the “Filed Under:” section, which I *think* is what you were asking about…If it’s not working, then we’ll need to look at your code to see what else might have changed…

In your CSS file, fine the section for .meta ul. Change it to:
.meta ul {
display: inline;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}