This tutorial is not complete yet, but might give you some ideas…
http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/2005/07/05/integrate/
Sorry, but that tutorial really hasn’t helped. I’m at a wall with my php/XHTML/CSS editing skills.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!
Chris
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You might also give this a read, it really explains how the theme files interact and how to include the calls for different pieces of things.
http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/
Again, thanks for all the replies. Unfortunately, I don’t think the Themes are what I’m looking for. Perhaps I have some sadistic desire to do this the hard way, but…
A) It doesn’t seem like I can do what I want with themes (perhaps I’m wrong).
B) All that Theme stuff is just confusing me anyway…
Blog is at http://www.bartlett-family.net/chrisbartlett/blog2/
Problems In IE:
The entire right side nav is below everything, and you’ll notice that “Blog Search” through META is right on the vertical line. It should be about 10px more to the right, and the blog search should be right below the navbar, pretty much right next to the site search.
The BLOG footer “Chris Bartlett’s Blog is proudly powered by WordPress
Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).” is centered, but it’s centered in regards to the entire page, not the contentleft area. I’d like it to be, and I’d like it to be positioned right below the lowest blog entry. This happens in FF & IE both.
Problems In FF:
Much better than IE. Basically, the right side nav needs to drop about 20 or 30px or so and move 5 or 10px to the right.
Can anyone simply help me do those things?
Thank you!
Chris
I don’t think the Themes are what I’m looking for
Since you are using WP 1.5.x you have to look for themes – all the styling, display and design is done with the template files of a theme.
It doesn’t seem like I can do what I want with themes
Like what? What is that you cannot do with themes? The themes control the layout and design. And with the flexibility of the templates you can do almost everything 🙂
I don’t understand why I HAVE to use themes. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding, though. I am modifying the php files in the themes/default directory… Is that what you mean?
No worries. I’ve gotten 90% there on my own. I can figure out the remaining 10. I appreciate all the advice.
Chris
You don’t have to use themes. Just one theme 🙂
Modifying the themes/deafult directory’s file = modifying a theme. So, you are using one. Good luck.
OH, ok then. So, could you or someone else, then have a look at my php files and CSS and see if you can help me figure out what’s wrong?
I’ll post txt versions of the php files if necessary.
Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding. I was staring it in the face all along!
Chris
The best way I can “illustrate” how the template files of a theme work together – it is here on my site:
http://www.transycan.net/abc/visual_anat.html
IE. The sidebar usually goes down under when one or more elements are too wide for the width of the sidebar div. It could be an image, a long link, a hidden script, a too wide search box… anything. By taking them out one by one you can easily find out which one is the “guilty”.
The footer is in the wrong div, i.e. in the main-main div (?wrapper) – that’s why it’s centered relative to that one.
Well, I’ve since figured out that what was causing the problem with the sidebar in IE. It was the width attribute in the sidebar id in the CSS file.
You were right about the footer, though. Thanks a million!
Chris
