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Right.. thanks for that! My problem with the pages was that I had not reset the permalinks to default properly, because of the borkage introduced by htaccess. In case anyone else wants to know, I managed to properly reset it to the (un-pretty) default state like this: Set “default” on the permalinks page first. WP writes to htaccess and borks things. Replace the htaccess file with an original (which you will hopefully have) and then _re-load_ (i.e. re-post) the permalinks form. This way, it actually switches back to default. After that, no more trouble with htaccess it seems.

I noticed this 301 redirect plugin by Dean Lee — it seems to offer a very elegant and easy solution, especially if you’re just starting out and don’t have to worry about old posts breaking.. can’t I use this to change my urls from the wp default to something else?

The only downside seems to be that it requires the wp address and the blog address to be the same. Thoughts?

P.S. I am a little disappointed with the lack of suggestions on the Codex page for apache without mode_rewrite — everything seems to center around how to use it on IIS. Unfortunately, not all hosts make mod_rewrite available.. Also, there’s a link to a different plugin by Dean Lee for IIS, which is different from the one I link to above.

KatGirl: I see your point, and I agree with what you’re getting at. However, I’ve just – very gently and shall we say lovingly – modified the Kubrick theme for my purposes. No fat graphics anywhere – except for that big fat header of course. I’m mostly curious why I get this noticeably different performance out of default Kubrick and my modifications, and right now I’m assuming it’s that 140KB header img because I can’t find any other reason. Well, I suppose it’s obvious, huh?

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck..

Duh.

Also, I am using the Gimp. Right now I just can’t be bothered to go back and re-import the picture I’m using as a jpeg instead of png, merge layers, index colors blah-di-blah.. unless someone can re-assure me that that is what I should be doing. 🙂

vkaryl: Ehm. Good question. Let’s see. 🙂


body {
font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Times New Roman', Times, Serif;
background-color: #8b4513;
color: #333;
text-align: center;
line-height: 1.8em;
background-image: url(img/6a622f/kubrickbgcolor.png);
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#page {
padding: 0;
width: 760px;
border: 1px solid #959596;
margin: 20px auto;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
text-align: left;
background-image: url(img/6a622f/kubrickbg.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
border: 0px;
}
#header {
background-color: #999966;
margin: 0 !important;
margin: 0 0 0 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: 170px;
width: 760px;
background-image: url(img/6a622f/kubrickheaderv3170.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
clear: both;
}
. . .
/* Begin Structure */
#headerimg {
margin: 0;
height: 170px;
width: 100%;
}
.narrowcolumn {
float: left;
padding: 0 0 20px 45px;
margin: 0px 0 0;
width: 450px;
}
.widecolumn {
padding: 10px 0 20px 0;
margin: 5px 0 0 150px;
width: 450px;
}
.post {
margin: 0 0 40px;
text-align: justify;
}
.widecolumn .post {
margin: 0;
}
.narrowcolumn .postmetadata {
padding-top: 5px;
}
.widecolumn .postmetadata {
margin: 30px 0;
}
#footer {
background-color: #d9d9ba;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
height: 63px;
clear: both;
background-image: url(img/6a622f/kubrickfooter.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border-bottom: 0;
}
#footer p {
margin: 0 0;
padding: 15px 0;
text-align: center;
line-height: 1.4em;
}
/* End Structure */