Triplanetary

Edit: Sorry, wrong thread <_<

What I would suggest is to put the YouTube embed inside a <div>, give the <div> the background you want, and then set a padding property for the <div> so that the background is visible around the edges of the YouTube embed. Your HTML might look something like this:

<div class="youtube">
<YouTube stuff>
</div>

And then you can style it with CSS thusly:

div.youtube {
background: url('location/picture.png')
padding: 15px;
}

The padding will add 15px of blank space to each of the div’s four sides. The div’s height will thus be the height of the YouTube embed, plus 30 pixels. You’ll need to give the div a “width” or “max-width” property to keep it from stretching to fill the entire width available to it – set it to the width of the YouTube embed, plus 30 px again.

But what I’m driving at is that, with this height and width in mind, you can create a background image with the same dimensions as the div. (15 pixels is just an example; you can set it to whatever you want, of course.)

It is a label. It’s generated by the comment_form function, but you can override it. Go into Twenty Eleven’s comments.php file (or copy it to your child theme if you’re using a child theme), find the line <?php comment_form(); ?> – it’s at the very bottom.

Replace it with this:

<?php comment_form( array(‘comment_field’ => ‘<p class=”comment-form-comment”>’ . ‘<textarea id=”comment” name=”comment” cols=”45″ rows=”8″ aria-required=”true”></textarea></p>’) ); ?>

And that’ll remove the label.

li.widget { list-style: none }

Works when I try it out in Firebug.

WinXP’s lack of support for IE9 is just another reason you should switch to Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. Plenty of good options, so instead of whining about WordPress’s acknowledgement of a fact, you could be doing something about it.

If there are multiple stylesheets related to navigation, the safest place to put it is in the one that loads last, so that it won’t be overwritten. You could even put it in its own stylesheet and insert that sheet into the header of your theme.

I’m not going to knock premium themes – they have their uses. But the general answer, in my opinion, to a question like “Do I need a premium theme?” is no. Unless you have very large-scale needs. The main thing you get when you pay for a theme is full support from the theme developer. In terms of features, you can get pretty much all the same stuff with free themes, and any features your theme is lacking can easily be adding using plugins. So for a personal blog, you generally don’t need to pay for a theme.

So here’s what you should do. Go here:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/themes/tag-filter/

There, you can check those boxes next to the features you want in your theme. As you can see, you can search for three-column layouts among other things. If you want your page’s layout to be as wide as possible, I recommend also checking the “flexible width” box. This means that the layout of your pages will always adapt to the width of the user’s monitor.

As for an image-based navigation menu, your best bet is probably to use CSS background images. If you look at the source code for a generated WordPress nav menu, you’ll see that each menu item has its own CSS class. You can use this to define a separate background image for each of them in your blog’s stylesheet.