Eric Daams
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Changing Horses In The Middle Of The Stream….It really depends on what you have currently. If any of the plugins you use clash with the theme you implement, then you’ll have problems. Same goes with if there is anything in your current theme that is hard-coded into it (ie. not in there via a widget), then you won’t have it when you switch theme.
But that said, most of the time I’ve found it pretty safe to switch themes.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Pushing Logo UpYou have a margin-top and a margin-bottom on your header div. This is going to push everything down, but it also keeps a bit of whitespace.
Could you upload a png or jpg of what you want it to actually look like? It’s a bit hard to know how to help without having a clear idea of what you’re trying to achieve. Same goes with the Apparel page.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Different Thumbnail size for different categories.The simplest solution would be to add in a different body class for each category page (ie. if category A, body class is category-a), and also add a class to the thumbnail img (for example, thumbnail).
Then, you could set the width and height for the thumbnail image on the category-a page like this:
.category-a img.thumbnail {width:200px;height:200px;}Cheers,
EricForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to position a Widget at the bottom of page?Unfortunately, no, not at this stage. I’ll send you a message through your contact form so you can email me and I’ll help you get it set up.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I am trying to place space in between the top and bottom of postsYour Facebook icon is outside of the div for the post. Put it just inside the closing div (ie. </div>) and it should create plenty of padding between it and the next post.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Ive made a blog, but feel like something is missing!I wouldn’t worry about it looking bare — it really doesn’t look that bare to me. Personally, I’d probably just add a bit more padding to the content and between posts, to really hammer home a clean look.
Potentially, you could actually ditch the sidebar altogether and just have a few navigation elements at the top. For a site about photography, that could be a nice way of emphasizing the photos themselves, by having them span full-width.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Feedback and questionsIt looks pretty good to me. I’d probably try to add more photos/colour, as it’s very dark at the moment. Also, seems to me you could make better use of the Featured Posts block in the sidebar — why not just show a list of the most recently featured posts? Perhaps if you have teaser images for each of them, you could use them in there as well, to bring in some more colour.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: John Mark MinistriesAre you using @font-face for the headers? I like that touch. Which font is that?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to position a Widget at the bottom of page?Yes, ga.js was the Google Analytics script. I just checked your site and it loaded in a flash, so that was definitely the culprit.
Cais’ solution might work, or a simpler option could be to set the character as a background image. You would need to create a new div directly inside the contentwrap div, and give it the character image as a background (positioned bottom right). Let me know if that works for you.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to position a Widget at the bottom of page?Hey tdouglass,
Do you mean the photo that’s at the top of the sidebar, under the Recent Figure Preview heading? If so, the simplest thing to do would be to copy and paste the source code and then drop it in the footer:
<h2 class="widgettitle">Recent Figure Preview: </h2> <div class="textwidget"><a href="http://www.animemaki.net/2010/04/figure-preview-marvel-bishoujo-phoenix/#more-99"><img src="http://www.animemaki.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Phoenix.jpg" width="290" heigh="147"></a></div>There’s also a loading issue on your site, which seems to be down to your ga.js (it’s taken almost 40 seconds to load!).
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Hybrid Child ThemeNice design, and nice use of the Hybrid framework.
From an SEO point of view, there would probably be some benefits to having individual pages for each of their major service points.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Your Cinematic Wedding StudioReally nice design. I really like the colour scheme and the sense of light and shade. Subtle, but very effective.
I’m undecided on whether I like the video controls; part of me thinks it would be better for usability purposes to have the pause/play control visible all the time, instead of just on the hover.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: John Mark MinistriesVery nice, clean design. Impressive to hear that traffic has tripled since switching to WordPress; obviously that was a good move.
I noticed a few small issues in the comments section. Try adding in a bit of padding between the Discussion and “2 Comment for …” bits — it feels a bit cramped without any padding. Also, there’s a random Google icon showing up before the commenter’s name, which looks kind of weird.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: defining posts per pageif ($pagenum='') $pagenum =1;should beif ($page_num='') $page_num =1;That might fix up a bunch of your errors.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Feedback and questionsHey Ke, it looks like the banners in the sidebar have a hover effect (all the other links do too), which is what’s creating that black rectangle. To remove it, try adding this rule to your CSS file:
.sidebaradbox a:hover, .email-banner a:hover, .facebook-badge a:hover {background:transparent;}With the errors, it looks like most of them would probably be located in header.php. Basically you just have to try and match up the snippet from the validator with the code.
In terms of loading time, it seems pretty good to me. Most pages loaded in under 2 seconds.