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Clint you might also want to give THIS a try. I prefer fluid designs – with left or right sidebar as your choice. If you don’t want a sidebar it would be easy enough to remove.

*note to self – add Zorgg to Christmas list*

Why not just integrate bbPress into it?

“When I try to view the image directly at the URL above, it gives me the same parsing error.”

How could you get a parsing error if you view the image directly? Can you post the path to your header image so we can check it?

‘I’m wondering where/how I make the name and tagline sit under the image.’

The easist way is to just make it part of the image. Just layer it on top wherever you want it. Remove the old test that you see now through your ACP. I think it’s in the Options section. Just clear out the two top lines (Weblog title: and Tagline) and click on ‘Update Options’ ??

“I assumed that, at least, would be a simple affair.”

You assumed correctly ?? It shouldn’t be giving you this much grief. But don’t give up just yet, we’ll find the problem.

I saw your Parse error before. First of all take a DEEP breath. All your frustration can take a lot out of you. Somewhere, somehow, you’re overlooking something, probably something very basic.

First of all what version of wp are you using, 2.1.2?

Also, what happens when you try to view your image directly by typing in its address (https://www.YourDomain.com/blog/wp-content/themes/theme_name/images/kubrickheader.jpg) do you see it?

Great plugin viper007bond. Very creative ??

Yeah we really shouldn’t be laughing, we should be crying, but I’m glad you got a good chuckle out of it ??

“IE can sometimes do weird things in the presence of incorrect CSS.”

LOL. What’s worse is that IE can sometimes do weird things in the presence of correct CSS :p

BTW, you didn’t mention what version of IE you’re using.

Keep in mind that unless they have your font on their computer it will not display the same way, unless you’re using Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) which I seriously doubt your using.

Do you have a link to your site? What ‘text’ is overlaying, the site name and tagline?

“I don’t consider taking care of current customers and their issues “baby-sitting.” On the contrary, I consider that the first order of business.”

You’re using terms like ‘customers’ and ‘business’ but there are no customers as wordPress is free, and there is no business as wordPress makes no profit. When you pay for something you become a ‘customer’ – until then you’re just a ‘user’ of the program.

“But it does make more sense to me to have someone who actually works on the WP code provide”

There is no ‘wordPress code’ per se. It is standard PHP and anyone knowledgeable in PHP knows everything that the wordPress coders do. Having said that I have also noticed a lot of people having problems with wordPress images, particularly the headers. I still don’t quite understand why wordPress uses the wrapper as they do. I am more than happy with trying to help you find a solution to your problem. After all, the more I learn about why all of these people are having such issues, the more I can help others that have the same issues down the road ??

“XHTML and XML are not the same thing”

Well technically that’s NOT true. XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, according to the XHTML 1.0 specification. In other words, it is an XML-based markup language that has the same set of element types and attributes as HTML 4. Read more about it here. IE does not support the application/xhtml+xml MIME type and it never has. You can make IE recognise this MIME type through a registry hack, but it will still treat it as HTML.

wordPress is my religion :p

You would need a conditional to keep it in one post only.

If I recall correctly then it only mentions how to install in the sidebar…

Yep that’s the ticket ?? So what code do we need to use to have it displayed that way, and where should we place the code?