wendell

FYI

Just to confuse you with syntax, # can be comments in certain programing language, but not CSS. In CSS comments are wrapped with ‘/*’ to start and ‘*/’ to end.

For example

/* COMMENT */

or
/*
BLAH BLAH COMMENT
*/

In CSS # indicates a id style while ‘.’ indicates a class style. An id can only be used once in a page, while a class can be used repeatedly.

For example I could have a div (layer) of

<div id="blackbox"> </div>

then in my CSS sheet I would have to define that style. Suppose I wanted a black rectangle 20px by 30px. Then in my CSS sheet I would have the following:

#blackbox{ background:black;
width: 20px;
height: 30px;
}

Now suppose I want to keep reusing this element, I would want to make it a class instead.

<div class="blackbox"></div>

In that case I would have the following in my CSS

.blackbox{ background:black;
width: 20px;
height: 30px;
}

I had the following problems:

1. Was I to install the wp-polls.php from your previous version? You didn’t include it in the zip file.
2. In your usage section of your documentation you have an error in you PHP. You are missing a ‘(‘ bracket in the if statement. It should be:
   <?php if (function_exists('vote_poll') && (basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) != 'wp-polls.php')): ?>
3. If I view the archives (wp-polls.php) I get an error:
   Fatal error: Cannot redeclare check_voted() (previously declared in /home/fearles3/public_html/test/wp-polls.php:225) in /home/fearles3/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/polls/polls.php on line 166

This was a fresh install… I will now cry myself to sleep

short answer is yes…

I did the design thing… Now I am learning the programming thing.

The best solution I found was using flickr.com on the backend to store photos (I bought the pro account) and using the falbum plugin to retrieve and display those photos within my blog. If you want to see it in action you can look at my photo section.

falbum: http://www.randombyte.net

my blog: http://www.fearlessgearless.com/
my photos: http://www.fearlessgearless.com/photos/
my setup: http://www.fearlessgearless.com/set-up/

Note all of my pictures in my blog entries links to my embedded flickr album thanks to an additional admin side plugin (flickr post bar). – although it is a bit dated.

http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wp-flickr-post-bar/

This plugin displays photos from your flicr account in the post page and lets you even search by tags. When you set the plugin up you can give it the URL to use when it creates the link (i.e. link back to flickr or within your site). I also hacked this plugin so it would wrap the photos with a div tag of a specific class as well as insert the photo’s flickr title underneath. All in all this plugin means you can search and insert your flickr photos within the post page with a click of a mouse – good for efficient photo blogging.

Random and Recent pictures
Falbum has both a global random and global most recent photo function. I use the random photo function in my side bar. You can have these functions return any of the available flickr sizes (i.e. big as per your request. But the size available depends on your flickr account). Problem is that it returns them wrapped a div tag of a specific class (falbum-random) or wrapped in a list item tag. Currently, I wrote my own random photo function so that it would just return the essential bits (i.e. image URL, link URL) so I could incorporate random photos into my css style (i.e. I set the background picture from my flickr account and display the photo as a background of my header div – currently under development)

Photo Tags
Falbum also supports tags, since flickr supports tags. You can only set the tags in flickr however. For an example of tags:

http://www.fearlessgearless.com/photos/show/tags/

Finally, as for all the other things you wish to do all you may want to consider creating a home.php template file if you do not want the usual scrolling blog entries for your home page.

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Pages
– scroll down to “WordPress as a CMS”

hope that helps some

I personally have a word/photo essay blog and I love keeping all my images in flickr, then integrating them in the site with falbum.

http://www.randombyte.net/

I also use the flickr posting bar for WYSIWYG post editing:

http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wp-flickr-post-bar/

I configured it so it inserts relative links back to my site itself. For me the falbum shows up in /photos/ on my site, so when I configured flickr post bar I used following the custom insert:

/photos/show/recent/photo/$PHOTOID/

Flickr handles all my images, but users never see that.

As a note: I did integrate Gallery2 into my test site on my home server, but I never much liked working with Gallery2… its too complex for easy painless posting. Flickr has been worth the money for me (I post Gigs and Gigs of photos)

hope that helps!!!