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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Technorati repeats post titleNo takers?
I don’t think this is a Technorati problem. I think I did something to a template that messed things up. If anyone knows what’s wrong or at least what Technorati might be getting confused about I’d appreciate it.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: scribble, scribble, scribble…Maybe you’ve already thought of this, but if your quotes (in the blockquote tag) are short the background image you style them with won’t display entirely — meaning you’ll get something like QUOT or QU … in the grey letters that run vertically down the left/top side.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Icarus DivingCarterco, thanks much! I think I have the slippery background problem fixed now. The screenshots were helpful — thanks for thinking of that.
The “click to enlarge” effect isn’t mine. You’ll find the code for that here: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/. It is supposed to work on IE too, so maybe I set it up wrong …
As for the mouse-over thing, I intentionally set it up so that the images would always be shown in IE due to its lack of support for hover on anything but links.
Again, thanks. Very helpful.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: AutoHacks – Go on, have a go at meAll in all a simple, clean design. Navigation seems a little awkward in some cases. It’s become sort of an unofficial standard to have the blog/company title serve as a link back to the home page (even when you have a “HOME” link in the toolbar). I think you should also have the “more content” indicators (i.e., “[…]”) following post summaries work as links. Because you’ve styled the post titles so they look like normal titles it’s no longer clear that they are also links to the full post. When I’m reading one of the posts on the home page I found that I was expecting the “[…]” text to take me to the full post.
In the archive for December, look at the first post you made (the bottom one). It’s fully contained on the page so there’s no “[…]”. There’s also no clear indicator that this post takes you anywhere — i.e., it talks about something but doesn’t give you a link to go see it yourself. Once you click on the post title you then see that part of the text is now working as a link. I think if there are any links in the part of the post you’re using for the summary the links should also be in the summary.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Launched: CharlesPhoenix.com, and bless WordPressTry #FF6F00 for the
h2 acolor and #FFC336 forh2 a:hoverBy the way, there’s a color utility I wrote several years ago that you might find helpful. Google ColorWrite for the location. There are better color choosers out there now but still none that make getting your color values into a CSS file any easier. It requires a Java Runtime Engine on your computer. If you are using a Mac (OS X) you already have that. If you’re on a PC or Linux box check the download page for how to find out if you need to install it (and where to get it).
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Launched: CharlesPhoenix.com, and bless WordPressGlad the feedback’s appreciated. If you care to return the favor, … http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/55943
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Launched: CharlesPhoenix.com, and bless WordPressNice work! I checked it out on Mac OS X / Safari and everything looked well behaved. The only thing I saw that struck me as a bit off gets down to personal taste, I suppose: the headline link color, especially in a:hover mode. Something closer to the colors in the graphics at the top of the page would be better perhaps? The background color in hover mode seems especially week (again in my opinion).
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Icarus DivingI’ve made some big changes to the look of the theme since I first posted this. What do you think of it now? How’s it look/work in IE???
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Icarus DivingThanks, Jim. Glad you like it. I went ahead and fixed the CSS so that on IE the favicon links will (should) always be visible.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Double list with text in pageA “table” would imply that the columns and rows are providing metadata — e.g., this is a column of new members and this one’s of old members. What the OP is looking for is a way to format a list — the columns have no meaning in terms of the data, they’re just being used to format it. This is exactly what CSS advocates say tables are not for.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Double list with text in pageFor now, a table will be far easier if you’re unfamiliar with CSS. On the other hand, getting familiar with CSS will eventially make anything you do regarding themes (or just web pages) a lot easier.
Basicaly what you’re trying to do can be done with divs. You set up one as a container and in it you put 2 more, one for each column and you float one of these left and the other one right. So something like:
<div class=container>
<div class="leftColumn">
... use an unordered list here for column 1's items ...
</div>
<div class="rightColumn">
... use an unordered list here for column 2's items ...
</div>
</div>Then you’d add the styles for the divs (and ul lists) to style.css in your theme (probably). You can give the container div a width of 100% and the two column divs widths of 48% and remember to float them in opposite directions (col 1 left, col2 right).
For help styling the unordered lists, see if this helps.