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Anonymous
I just looked at your code. It is clear as a bell where the problem is but explaining it may be difficult. I hope you don’t mind me saying your code may be a little eerrrrr *jumbled*. As I understand your blog you are quite young and it is a fine effort to get this far. Nothing serious but you need to tweak (more than) a bit. You have got body tags before the doc type and that type of stuff. Plus you have got the css in the head. Ok but you now have the ul in a class. Plus I couldn’t see a menu anywhere. So: maybe have a break, clear your head, and reread all your code from the top as if you are reading it for the first time. You will see it all. Good luck. Let us know how you get on. We HATE those bullets.
help me these bullet questions are making me mad…
/me runs for cover…
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Anonymous
Thought you were busy getting the new Opera fired up ?!:-) I am on point on lists.
I would strongly recommend making a backup of your current index.php file. Then, re-upload the default index.php and wp-layout.css from the WordPress install files. View the site in your browser, then view the source it’s created. Take a look at each section: the different div’s, classes, etc. Then, one by one, make changes to the wp-layout.css file to style it the way you want. (Remember to make a backup.)
FYI: the default behavior, if you don’t change anything in index.php or wp-layout.css files, is for the categories under the post title to have NO bullets.
Looking at your code (as Anon said), you have two sets of html declarations, two sets of head tags, etc. You have a bunch of style near the top, but without a proper declaration. I’m not sure what all those font classes are for, but ok…The bottom line is, you should start from the beginning and make one change at a time until you get it the way you want. It looks as if something went wrong along the way, and trying to fix it as-is will probably drive you nuts. Take a deep breath, then dip your toes back in…slowly.
-Tony
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Anonymous
Usual concise recipe from tcervo.
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Anonymous
This IMHO is out of line.The operator of the site in question is – as I understand it – fourteen years of age. It is a very fine effort to get this far. With some encouragement who knows how her skill set might develop.
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Anonymous
I am not quite sure that we are all sick of bullet questions. The question often contains more than the question. In this case the bullet question introduced what is the real issue which is persons new to css and WP and dealing with both simaltaneously. Strictly css is off topic for WP in its entirety. But there is a design forum. And it is plain that there is a mighty need for it. But heck if people do not have questions then we can’t post replies. Then where would we be ;). Bullets in lists? As they say in Texas : Bring em on 😉
It is a very fine effort to get this far. With some encouragement who knows how her skill set might develop.
Yes, in a few months time she might even be ready to use WordPress. Let’s not pretend this is a tool for beginners – that does any potential users a great disservice. To learn XHTML, CSS and PHP all at the same time is a hell of a learning curve and I think it is reasonable to suggest that people should get up to speed on CSS BEFORE they install, it will make their experience of WordPress much less frustrating.
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Anonymous
There you go again. Once installed which I will allow is a mighty caveat no php, xhtml or css is needed. You are going to be stuck with the interface but you can blog to your hearts content, straight out of the box. Nearly all difficulties posted here arise when the fiddling starts. But that is the fun of it. Personally I am not partial to battleship grey. But it is a choice.
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Anonymous
Quote: “Jesus H. Christ. As by the sounds of it – <font> tags?<body> tag before the doctype? – this person’s site is not going to validate any time soon, why not give her the quick dirty solution of removing the bullets through the php call?
<?php the_category (‘,’) ?>
Yeah, its not semantic, but its valid XHTML and it saves us another ten posts trying to explain the basic principles of CSS and why it is a bad idea to mess with index.php. Anyway, it is unlikely that regular readers of a badly coded blog will be using anything other than a web browser to view it. Actually, very unlikely that they will be using anything other than IE for Windows ;)”
Wow, aren’t you high and mighty? I agree with the person who said this was out of line. Please.
IMHO it is ‘out of line’ to attack regular posters without even taking a couple of seconds to register. I had to do it so why are the rules different for you?
someone forced u to register?
I was getting called a troll and a coward for posting anonymously so yeah, there was a certain amount of pressure.
ooh… well lets hope more anons have enough decency to do that! 🙂
What a bunch of snobs. If all you are going to do is ATTACK rather than INSTRUCT, please, keep it to yourself. I personally am NEVER too old to learn something new. YMMV.
