ivovic

if all the themes you use are giving you trouble, then the problem is with your content.

Keep markup out of your posts as much as possible and make sure any images you use are small enough to fit horizontally.

I don’t see too many validation issues at the moment, but that doesn’t mean anything in itself. Something you’re putting in your posts is DEFINITELY the problem, if changing themes doesn’t help.

crap I clicked through because you said it wasn’t safe for work, but was sorely disappointed. 🙂

cheers mate, glad you sorted it out 🙂

well, in short, wordpress could easily be for you, if you’re prepared to do a little copy/pasting.

using php includes is quite possible, but largely unnecessary for what you want to achieve.

the idea is to (mostly) copy/paste your site layout into a wordpress theme… then dynamically injected wordpress content will be inserted into your design in all the right places.

The deal then, is to take your old content and turn it into wordpress posts or wordpress pages depending on their chronological or static nature respectively.

It’ll be easiest in the long run if you convert your whole site to wordpress. Categories allow you to *easily* differentiate between various types of content.

You can make posts in one category appear as featured news items, while posts in other categories appear as headlines only, or as though they were written on ‘talk like a pirate’ day… there’s no limitation on the difference in display options you have for posts in different categories.

This is all a function of your theme. WordPress provides a framework which allows you to stuff information in a database. Your theme which relies largely on you and your existing design, is responsible for pulling that information out of the DB and stuffing into the right areas of your design.

For someone who has enough php experience to use includes, the learning curve won’t be too steep. You’ll certainly have to spend a little time understanding wordpress template files (in the theme) and looking up some functions in the codex for the correct syntax, but for the most part it’s all within 3 clicks of a google search.

It’s really quite a nice feeling to pull your content out from the design. It just means that posting new stuff involves many less steps than it would otherwise.

Do it, do it, do it 🙂

for the record, I mean that about absolutely any kind of CMS… if you play with wordpress for a while and decide it’s not for you, don’t go back to static pages. Find a CMS which you *are* happy with.

Having said that, wordpress offers quite a lot of flexibility because it’s templating system is just a bunch of php files. Not having a custom templating language means that you can do anything php can do.

well, with a little hacking you should be able to modify your theme to allow widgets first, then your own stuff – or the other way around, but you won’t be able to intermingle them.

the thing is, if you know enough to make that change to your theme, there’s no reason I can think of to use widgets at all.

… lost cause.

I can’t really help you with safari, but I can I suggest you simply wrap your links in anchor tags if you want to make them look shorter?

Obfuscating links via redirection services like tinyurl is a great way for malicious users to trap people into following dangerous links, which is why a lot of people just learn not to follow them.

this is *especially* true of people asking you to visit a link with a specific browser, which may have specific exploits, if you take my meaning.

Just trying to increase your chances of success while you can still edit your opening post.

yeah, there’s no way I could have found that stuff in there 😛