Dreamweaver and CSS

OK. I’ve checked in FF & IE6 – those are the most consistent browsers to check in – if it works in FF, then it will work (usually) in Net, Opera & Moz. Naturally, IE stands alone.

grinandgrumble, I can’t see any problems with your site, other than no navigational links to take me back to your home page, which is consistent with Kubrick theme.

I don’t require incentive to help you – the fact that you’ve asked is incentive enough.

Recommendations: take a break; go outside for a walk; have a drink. Then come back and see your site. It looks fine, or have I completely overlooked something?

Yes. I still use FP when I hack a template to death. It’s fast, instant and I can switch back and forth between html and style.css without having to be online.

And I don’t have to fuss with php code – I just: view source/then copy & paste the html from my home page or category view or dummy post on my wordpress site/then copy & paste the html into FP and go from there.

There’s no relationship at all between DW & WP – remove that thought from your mind and things will be easier for you.

OK. If you’re not accustomed to using CSS for anything BUT font/text styling, then I recommend that you select a theme you do like, upload it to your theme directory:

yoursite
-wordpress (if wp has an install name of wordpress)
–wp-content
—themes
—-kubrick, or
—-classic, or
—-any theme goes here

naturally in their own individual folders. You can browse and select/download any theme you pretty well like, and more than one

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

To change your image in the Kubrick theme.

Go to: Admin/Presentation/Theme/Kubrick/Theme editor = and click header.php – at this point in time you don’t really need to have chmod 777 on your theme files but it certainly helps.

Scroll down until you see this:

“To ease the insertion of a personal header image, I have done it in such a way, that you simply drop in an image called ‘personalheader.jpg’ into your /images/directory.

Dimensions should be at least 760px x 200px. Anything above that will get cropped off of the image.”

Find an image you like – make the dimensional changes as per instructions, save as: personalheader.jpg, and upload to your current theme: kubrick/images file. The rest should take care of its self naturally.

There should be only ONE index.php in your Kubrick theme folder. You will also have:

comments.php
comments pop-up.php
archive.php
footer.php
page.php
searchform.php
single.php
404.php
archives.php
header.php
links.php
search.php
sidebar.php

Your “homepage” right now is main template or index.php, unless you stipulate otherwise.

I strongly recommend you read the Codex for more info on working with WordPress – it truly will make your life easier.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

I think I’ve covered everything.

Post back if you have further probs.

K

I work in DW and I don’t run a local test server. I warn you though, I never use wysiwyg since it sucks for css sites. Just a suggestion– I create a static html page with a corresponding css file (called style.css for ease of transition) and then “slice” it up using comments to delineate the areas that correspond to the WP template files. Then I add in the changes I made to the html file into the template section by section. The css file just needs then to have the “blog” stuff added and styled. Upload, test drive, tweak and done! I’ve done probably 40 or 50 themes this way.

Well, not everyone works the way I do. I found that out when I posted on the css-d list to a question on how people create their xhtml/css layouts, and I answered that I do the entire css file in toto before I ever put a single piece of xhtml down. And usually it’s pretty much nailed at that point, other than spacing and (I-Freaking-E) debugging. The html is painful for me since I’m already mentally way past it, if that makes sense.

And thanks for the kudos (again!) You’ll be delighted to know I plan to release a couple more themes in the next couple weeks, workload permitting . . . one is gonna be teenage girly fun, the other broody goth artiste. The layouts are already pretty much done(one for real, one mentally) and if I can just get a COUPLETHREE hours away from the paying work I’ll have them wrapped. Of course every time I say that someone else throws money at me . . . *sigh*