Tons

Thanks again. The clearer div works. For anyone else who needs help with this, I found an additional resourse explaining floats and images at:
https://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/
There is some css code there that installs an invisible horizontal line to force the next image below the first one.

Thanks guys.
podz – I have not tried tried adding the ‘clearer’ div. I don’t know what that is – as I’m not at all familiar with css stuff. Thank my whatever deity for the help I have got already with css here at the forums so far and the great online tutorials.
Is this a ‘clearer’ div tag that should be placed around the image?
<div class=”clearer”>the image url etc</div>
and does there have to be some “clearer div” stuff put into my css file to make it work?
thanks for your ongoing help.

Thanks for the quick help and the links podz.
I checked the info out, downloaded the tools, added the stuff to the css and installed the additional quick tags. BTW the “drop shadow” quick tag is really neat.
The changes fixed the problem of the posts displaying as a directory tree. Everything is now left aligned BUT (the always proverbial “but”) … the text in the posts is not married to the images in the respective posts. The text from all posts creeps up on the right to enter into the space made by the images from the upper posts.
The problem can be seen here: https://www.fetal.ca ie “Baby 2” text should be positioned to the right of the second baby image. Instead it rises on the right to enter the “Baby 1” text area.
Surely there must be some simple code, command etc. to make a break between one post and the next post?
Any help on getting this fixed is appeciated.

Thanks podz for the info and link to CSS – it is really helpful.

Hi Craig thanks for such quick help.
I have NOT altered wp-layout.css and I have NOT placed a call for a style sheet in my index.php page. This is because I’m not knowledgeable about css ?? and just wanted to build the site in plain html.
I though the same thing that tags like <?php get_archives(‘monthly’); ?> might somehow still be getting their style, colour etc commands from the wp-layout.css file so I deleted the wp-layout.css file but that didn’t fix the problem. I then put the css file back and looked through it for a place where I could set the font colour for the archives, categories lists and link list fonts to yellow but I could’nt find anything.
Where do i go to make the text for the archives, categories and links list yellow?
Thanks for your help.

Thanks very much Tony – that is one really neat script.
Much appreciated.

Thanks very much LL – after redoing the permalinks everything works great.

Ohhhh … thanks LL

podz – try a ?? or a ?? smilie
I don’t get an image for ?? as well but for the other types I do get the smilie.

Thanks very much for the nice addition.

Thanks aris and zonble – I’ll stay away from Zempt and I checked out FeedOnFeeds which looks good but a bit difficult for me. I need one of those EZ use interfaces for dummies like FeedDemon or NewsCrawler.
zonble I looked at your blog – very nice and you have a neat thing going with your topic urls like:
https://blog.nccu.edu.tw/archives/244

Please ignore my post above.
I found that I was using the incorrect tag. The correct tag for a list of categories is:
<?php list_cats() ?>

Sushubh – WP’s SE Friendly URLs should make google love your site!
I had a good look at my log file and saw that googlebot did a deep crawl and indexed all of the subject links and all of the archives links but then continued on with the “index.php” mysteriously added to all of the former link lines ending with the / and googlebot got all file not found errors.
Is googlebot figuring out that this feature is trying to mask the former unedible “php?” etc links or am I am I just being SE Paranoid? ??
I guess I’ll know in a few days when google does the usual directory rebuild and I see if the pages are listed or if the site is banned.

This might be an overly simplistic thing to check but I have made this error in the past.
Have you given permissions to your user to connect to the SQL database when you set up the database?

Thanks Cena – I was using the cvs version and when I just ignored the error messages in the install process I got an installed WP but there were still lots of errors on the index page. I then did the upgrade thing and that fixed those problems.