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That’s very kind of you, podz – thanks. I might just take you up on that offer.

Just wondering – I was reading skippy’s link http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress and it says:

/ — the root WordPress directory: all files should be writable only by your user account.

Does this mean the number should be 700 or 755? It doesn’t mention whether the files should be readable or executable by group/world/user – it would be much better if the right numbers for each directory were given, instead of words, which can be ambiguous.

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but stuff like that does my head in.

Thanks for the links, everybody. I really wish there was a simple ‘cheatsheet’ kind of thing for setting up WordPress, though. I’ve found myself reading pages and pages of information before I find the answers I need, in most cases – just to get the thing running properly (and it still isn’t, yet). I’m pretty close to giving-up 🙁

jbbrwcky – it was pretty simple, once I figured out what was wrong. I’ve still no idea why the above code works fine in a html document, but doesn’t in php. I don’t know what made me think of it, but the solution is to repeat the placing information for each state of the rollover and forget about the ‘link’ one altogether, like this –

#rollover1
{
float: left;
width: 119px;
height: 41px;
border: none;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
background: url(images/f2_onyx_tabs_01.jpg) no-repeat 0px 0px;
}

#rollover1: hover
{
float: left;
width: 119px;
height: 41px;
border: none;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
background:url(images/f2_onyx_tabs_01-over.jpg) no-repeat 0px 0px;
}
#rollover1: active
{
float: left;
width: 119px;
height: 41px;
border: none;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
background:url(images/f2_onyx_tabs_01-over.jpg) no-repeat 0px 0px;
}

Note that I also got rid of the ‘a’ tag in each state. If you want to add a depressed button state, you put a different image in the ‘active’ part of the CSS script.

It all works fine now – the buttons anyway. I’ve still got problems with something else. I want to put a background colour behind the calendar, but I can’t find the damn thing anywhere, so I can’t change it. Seems like it’s pulled right out of the database, but I could be wrong. This could take a while yet.

This is what I’ve got so far – http://www.cafedoom.com/wordpress/ (try the buttons out). As you can probably see, I’ve got a grey background to show behind the calendar now, but it goes outside of where I want it, because I made the background show it the sidebar field, rather than just the calendar. Pain in the arse.

I’m trying to make WordPress look a bit like the original website, and then I’ll adapt everything (content) to suit. The links are currently outside of WP, but once I’ve got this thing figured out, it’ll all be inside and, hopefully, easier to maintain and update. Searchable too.

Should I post this in the CSS section, or just wait a while longer? Not sure what to do – I don’t want to upset anybody by spamming this around.

Hi, Beel – thanks for the reply, but I can’t make it work. The existing tag uses PHP to import the url of the stylesheet, as quoted below. I can’t figure out what to write so that it’ll find mine. I tried putting a straightforward "<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="yourfile.css" TYPE="text/css">" in there, but it doesn’t work – does it need some PHP notation to get it going?

Here’s a small section of the head, where I guess it goes. Is it better to add another style tag, or… hell, I’m baffled. Somebody help me, please.

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
@import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
</style>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />