Title: Finally finished
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Finally finished

 *  [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/)
 * Hi, [this](http://www.taijiquan.pro.br) is my website. Finally finished thanks
   to many from this forum who helped so much!
    The website is mainly about taijiquan(
   tai chi chuan), but it is in portuguese, i am sorry to have removed the “translate
   this” links but they where keeping the site from validating. I would appreciate
   all feedback specially regarding design. The fonts, color and layout are the 
   Gutenberg CSS, from the design contest, so there is not much news about it, but
   i would love comments on: – the pictures (old) on the top right corner (do they
   look good, do you think they integrate well with the rest?) – the text fade-in
   effect (do you like it, does it work in your browser?) – the contractable menus
   in the menu bar (are they well distributed, do you think “contractability” improves
   the look of the site, do they work in your browser?) And finally, i am in need
   of a little help from someone knowledgeable about CSS: if you click on “Fórum
   de discussões” on the menu, you will land on my (low traffic) [discussion forum](http://forum.taijiquan.pro.br),
   which i tried to style the same as the WP part of the site. Now, i see it ok 
   with Safari – but if i load the forum with Firefox 0.8 Mac weirdness reigns: –
   When loaded on the front tab, a, unwanted scrollbar will appear inside the page;–
   When loaded on a tab in the background, if i wait until loaed is complete to 
   look at it, it will show fine (!!!), but when i navigate to a topic in the forum
   the unwanted scrollbar will appear again. Now is that a Firefox bug, did i mess
   thing up trying to style the forum (and can i fix it), and what happens when 
   seen with IE ? Thanks **a lot** to all who helped get my site working, and thank
   you for the feedback. Eduardo

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 *  [evilguile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilguile/)
 * (@evilguile)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47356)
 * it all works fine in IE6/Win2K from what I’ve seen. I think you could get some
   better pics of Chen Fake doing the first Routine from Jarek’s China from Inside:
   
   [http://www.chinafrominside.com/ma/](http://www.chinafrominside.com/ma/) They’re
   a better quality than the one’s you’ve got… Then again, they do look familiar.
   Maybe you’ve just stretched the photos a bit and that’s why they look so pixellated.
   Anyway, interesting looking blog. I’m gonna put it through Babel Fish (I don’t
   understand Portuguese) to see what you say. I practice Tai Chi (Beijing 24, Yang
   and Chen) so check out my blog every now and then.
 *  [indieb0i](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indieb0i/)
 * (@indieb0i)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47358)
 * Yeah, the only real problem is with the pictures being stretched. They fit the
   design there, but the pixelation from the stretching is a little distracting.
   See if you can effectively enlarge them with another program, or else just get
   bigger ones.
    I totally dig the text fade-in effect – how did you do that (I 
   haven’t even glanced at any code right now). I like the contractible (sp?) menues,
   but you might be able to make them integrate a bit better. Maybe a simple box
   around it entirely, or just a shaded backgrounded could help draw them away from
   the content itself. Overall a very nice job, I’ll take a quick look at the forums
   later.
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47429)
 * evilguile: the pics are from Jarek’s site, i had to stretch them a little so 
   the width is the same as the menu’s width. His pics are 93×113, and i show them
   140×170. I wish i could see the real ones, i would scan them in a higher resolution…
   The translation on automatic translators is a bit comic, but please try it! I
   went to your site but could only see the frontpage, no link to the blog.
    indieboi:
   I will try some other way of enlarging the pics, good idea. You can find a discussion
   about the fade-in [here](http://wordpress.org/support/5/3782), it was Stevarino
   who helped me out with that. The menus use [this](http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/switchcontent.htm)
   code. I will try some background colouring for them. Thanks for the feedback!
 *  [liams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liams/)
 * (@liams)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47556)
 * anatman…
    Is there a way you can make your code for the nicer archives with category
   sorting available? I saw other posts on this elsewhere, but no one seemed to 
   be able to get it to work the way you have. Can you post a link to it here? Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47588)
 * The code is by LaughingLizard, it is here: [http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/b2-img/narchives.phps](http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/b2-img/narchives.phps)(
   his website). That has category sorting available, but to make it show up by 
   default please read this thread: [http://wordpress.org/support/10/3711](http://wordpress.org/support/10/3711)–
   the second post with LL’s instructions is what i did to get category view by 
   default.
 *  [JimKerr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimkerr/)
 * (@jimkerr)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47846)
 * How’d you get that cool fade-in effect?
 *  [MaxT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxt/)
 * (@maxt)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47849)
 * This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
    Otherwise very nice work, specially
   the fade effect, seems like people dig it 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47852)
 * Jim Kerr, the how-to for the fade-in is [here](http://wordpress.org/support/5/3782),
   that is a thread with Stevarino teaching me how to do it step by step.
    MaxT,
   thanks for pointing my XHTML error out – i fiddled with some images after i posted
   this thread and broke the validation by not closing an image tag… will fix that.
 *  [oisin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oisin/)
 * (@oisin)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47854)
 * The site looks magnificent in FireFox, slightly less magnificent in IE (running
   XP). And I only see one scroll bar in the forum on both FireFox and IE, and that’s
   the one that’s supposed to be there (unless you want to hide the bottom half 
   of the forum, of course)…
    The pop-up menus, of course, don’t work in IE, but
   I suppose you’re aware of that. Also, I’d advise to change the picture, like 
   the others have said – either get the full-sized picture from somewhere, or have
   a completely different picture (I don’t know the first thing about tai-chi, despite
   living in Beijing, but is there any reason you wanted that particular picture
   instead of some other?) And how come the text in the fade-in starts out as light
   grey, not completely white? I don’t know if it’s a limitation of the script or
   what, but when I load the page, at first I see very very light grey text for 
   a few seconds, and then it fades to black. Can’t it be set to completely white
   text in the beginning? That would make the effect more, well, effective… Two 
   questions that confuse me: 1) Why is it that the area around the menu points 
   that ‘create’ pop-up menus has a help cursor? (Ie. when you hover over the area
   just left and right of “Categories”, “Links” and “Meta”, there’s a help cursor)–
   Wouldn’t it make more sense to just have a default cursor? 2) How come the title
   of the Yin link is “Visualização para o dia” and the title of the Yang link
   is “Visualização para a noite”? Shouldn’t it logically be the other way around?
   But these are tiny things – overall, the site looks awesome. Thumbs up.
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47855)
 * Hey Oisin, thank you for the feedback!
    Scrollbar: i ended up solving the former
   scrollbar problem, it has been looking ok for a little while now. It was an overflow:
   auto; declaration that made an unwanted scrollbar appear. Pop-up menus and help
   cursor over the Categories, Links and Meta: these two are related. I knew the
   menus wouldn’t work in IE, so i made a “all the links” page and linked to them
   from the words “Categories”, “Links” and “Meta”. I changed the cursor over them
   to try to get the reader to read (hehe) the tooltip on those words. I don’t love
   the help cursor also, maybe i will change it back to the normal cursor… Fade-
   in starting grey: yes, it is true, it starts grey. I was not sure if it was good
   this way, or starting completely white. Now that “all the links” page has a light
   grey background for the two columns with links in them – this was one of the 
   reasons i decided to start light grey. I could solve this i i were able to pass
   a parameter to that initialColor() function that sets the initial color for the
   text, but i have no idea how to do that! I may change that, too. Pictures: i 
   am in the process of getting those pics in a better quality. Those are pictures
   of a legendary taichi master, Chen Fake, and are very rare. I know the owner 
   of the originals, but he has to get permission from his elders before i can get
   to scan them. This will take a while, you know. Yin and Yang: of course, you 
   are completely right! I changed them around by accident, i will correct that.
   Thanks for pointing this out.
 *  [oisin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oisin/)
 * (@oisin)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47856)
 * (I find it quite amusing that a legendary tai-chi master should be named Fake.
   Especially if his surname, Chen, is Cantonese, ’cause then it would be Zhen in
   Mandarin, and that means ‘true’. So basically, ‘True Fake’ :P)
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47857)
 * Hahaha!
    That Chen is Mandarin, the Chen family is from northern China (Henan
   province, Wenxian county)… and Fa Ke are two words, i will search for their meaning
   but i can’t be sure to find. Now, thanks to Jesuit, the fade-in will start at
   light grey in pages with light grey background, and will start white in pages
   with white background (will take a day to update the site). He has cooked a plugin
   that make the fade-in effect available to all WP users, it can be found here:
   [http://hacks.chrisjdavis.org/wp-fade.phps](http://hacks.chrisjdavis.org/wp-fade.phps)
   If someone uses it, please leave him a comment saying thanks.
 *  [oisin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oisin/)
 * (@oisin)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47859)
 * I did a little search 😉
    Apparently, he’s called 陈å?‘科 in Chinese – Fa Ke
   might be taken to mean something along the lines of “He who will bring prosperity
   to the family”… but it could also just mean “distribution branch” (the former
   is probably more likely, I’d say)… (And it’s Wen County, not Wenxian County –
   县 (xian) means “county”)
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47860)
 * Hey Oisin,
    I visited your site (not just the WP installation), it is awesome.
   Thanks for the info on Chen Fake’s name – i didn’t know that. And indeed he brought
   prosperity to his family, whose taichi style was hardly known outside Wen county
   😉 before he travelled to Beijing. Are you in China to learn chinese?
 *  [oisin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oisin/)
 * (@oisin)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-finished/#post-47861)
 * Yup, that’s why I’m here 🙂
    And thanks for liking my site 8) I kind of like 
   it too 😛 (except that it table based and probably doesn’t validate – I’ll tackle
   that later…)

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