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“You keep saying “wrapper goes into header area” but so far I’m not seeing that these two themes overlap anything from the wrapper area into the header.”

This last one (so far) is not doing that, BUT we’re not using a wrapper image yet either. Let’s see what happens when we upload an actual wrapper image. If it still aligns up then we’re making some progress, but by far the lemon-neon-10 is the best so far, we just need to widen it a little.

I’d put it in the Bermuda Triangle column :p

Did you see this link for themes?

vkaryl here’s your link, but I don’t know how much good it will do you since we’re trying a new theme approx. every 15-20 minutes on average….

Looks nice but I don’t think I could use it because the wrapper goes up into the header, however I think that it’s great that you’re sharing it here for others. Other than having it right columned what did you do to make it more SE friendly?

The wrapper keeps going up into the header area, and down into the footer area. All we need is:

Header

Wrapper

Footer

Sounds pretty straight forward huh? But all we keep getting is:

Wrapper
Header

Wrapper

Footer
Wrapper

You probably haven’t run into this problem because you’ve used either square headers, or jpg headers. Ours is gif/png with rounded corners (so the wrapper keeps showing through underneith).

Click HERE or HERE.

Enjoy ??

Well firstly they’re not called skins…. they’re called themes here (yeah I know, it would be nice if all these companies could use the same terminology, or if I could at least win the lottery).

There are some blank themes. Let me go look them up for you and I’ll post the link…

Yes kubrick bad…. wordPress good.

Well we tried ‘Misty’.

Same problems as all the other themes…

But we’re still looking ??

Let us know what you find. We just might join you :p

It shouldn’t be this hard to make basic theme adjustments.

We’ve tried 4 or 5 themes so far, and they all have the same problem. The wrapper goes into the header and the footer area. We tried the theme viewer but all of the preview boxes were blacked out.

Well I’ve got to agree with vkaryl. LOTS of bad CSS and coding with that default theme. Why they did it that way is beyond me but it makes no sense to waste time and playing around with it. I’ll be checking out the themes that were mentioned above. If I have any luck with any of them I’ll post a link, with directions on how to change them for you ??

I was getting no where fast with that theme and so we decided to switch to the default theme and customize it. Unfortunately they use a jpg file so we switched to a jpg version of our header (that’s why you see the corners now). Once we iron out all of the header problems we will find a way to convert the header.php file to accept gifs. However now it seems that our server is down so we can’t access anything or work on the site (it’s always something going wrong :p). There’s a lot of bad CSS in the default theme so maybe we should spend this time fixing those while we’re waiting for the server to get back online.

Yes, that link works fine.

That’s why I left the link above. They are blank themes ??

For the record I am not a big fan of the way that wordPress makes themes. I have produced a lot of skins/hacks/themes for bigger products like Invision/SMF/vB etc. so we’re no stranger to coding (in fact we love it) but the ‘wordPress way’ doesn’t seem to be very straight forward. If there’s a rhyme or reason to getting wordPress themes to work we certainly haven’t seen it ??

“I’m very close to taking whoever’s advice it was (vkaryl?) and going with a custom theme and customizing it.”
We’re using a custom theme and having a lot of header/footer problems with it too. If you find one that words PLEASE share ??

“I would try adding a break between the header and the content so that the content is pushed down and doesn’t float up behind the header.”

Tried that, didn’t work ?? The wrapper is what’s causing all of the problems. It’s also causing the same problems in the footer. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the wordPress way of making themes ??

@root – Thanks! It’s very frustrating and ‘luck’ seems to be the only way to make a wordPress theme work :p

That works, except it left aligns everything (even though its set for center).

</head>
<body>
<div align=”center” id=”header”>
<h1>“><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></h1>
<p><i><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></i></p>
</div>
<div id=”wrapper”>

<div id=”content”>

You can see it here