WordPress.org

1. richardkearns
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   folks,

   i have been publishing "on the engines of enlightenment: journal of an aids shaman" http://www.aids-write.org/ for nine-ish months now, and migrated from dreamweaver to wordpress three months ago. my health has been a little skittery since then, but now i'm trying to tackle issues of page design.

   am ready to try out 2.0.1 but there are some issues i have questions about whatever the version i'm on.

   #1
   i want my text typeface to be arial narrow. i have a rough idea how to do that in dreamweaver. how do i do that in wordpress?

   #2
   how do i turn off the right justification so that i get flush left copy?

   #3
   i post a lot of poetry and am finicky about tabbing. how do i set up tabs and indents?

   #4
   i just figured out how to post graphics

   #5
   i want to start working with a color palette

   five ought to do it for starters. i have really struggled with wordpress documentation for a while, as well as struggling with my health. i'm grounded in writing and design, not html code. dreamweaver was useful for me because it was wysiwyg.

   any help would be appreciated. my email address is rk@aids-write.org. the website is http://www.aids-write.org/

   my nickname on my own site, run by wordpress, is lyr.

   forgive me for not searching for my topics first. i think i'm lucky to have made it this far into your system without something blowing up.

   richardkearns

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   1. Everything like that is defined in the style.css file of your theme (seemingly it's the default that comes with WP)
   Look for something like this at the beginning of it:
   /* Begin Typography & Colors */
body {
font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background-color: #d5d6d7;
color: #333;
text-align: center;
}
   and delete the first two font types, or change the order of them to have arial first.

   2. I don't see right justification on your blog.
   3. I don't know...
   4. good :)
   5. I am not sure I understand the question. Color palette where?

3. richardkearns
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   moshu--

   thanks. will take a look in a bit.

   what i mean by right justification is that the spacing is variable so the left and right side of each column of type is straight, as opposed to a "ragged right," where each line is "flush left," usually with no hyphenation. i want a ragged right.

   will explain color palette later.

   will check back. thanks.

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.