jkovis

In your theme’s header.php change

<li <?php if (is_home()) { echo 'class=""'; } ?>>/" title="Home">Home
</div> <!-- navigation-left -->
<ul class="sf-menu sf-menu-right">
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
<li class="subscribe">" title="Subscribe">Subscribe

to

<li <?php if (is_home()) { echo 'class=""'; } ?>>/" title="Home">Home</li>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
<li class="subscribe">" title="Subscribe">Subscribe</li>
</div> <!-- navigation-left -->

and in your theme’s style.css file change

#navigation-left {
float:left;
width:720px;
}

to

#navigation-left {
float:left;
/*width:720px;*/
}

and change

.sf-menu li {
background: url(images/menu-li-bg.jpg) top right no-repeat;
float: left;
padding: 10px 25px 12px 15px;
position: relative;
}

to

.sf-menu li {
background: url(images/menu-li-bg.jpg) top right no-repeat;
float: left;
position: relative;
padding: 12px;
}

1. When mousing over the ad there is a white box in the background.

— The ad is at the bottom of the page, correct?

in your theme’s style.css change:

background:url(images/bullet-on.gif) no-repeat 7px 8px #fff;

to

background: url(images/bullet-on.gif) no-repeat 7px 8px;

2. I changed the text color above the ad to grey but I only
see the change in chrome not firefox.

— Did you change the color by adding <font color="333 333"></font> around the text?

Change:

#lower .widget {
	width:270px;
	float:left;
	margin-right:20px;
	overflow:hidden;
	border:1px solid #434340;
	padding:12px;
	background:url(images/pixel-grey.gif);
	color:#fff;
}

to

#lower .widget {
	width:270px;
	float:left;
	margin-right:20px;
	overflow:hidden;
	border:1px solid #434340;
	padding:12px;
	background:url(images/pixel-grey.gif);
	color:#333;
}

can you post a link to your site?

my blog has gone down 3 times today

— What exactly happens? Do you get any kind of error message?

my host doesn't offer support for this software, and wordpress doesn't offer
support for this software installed on hosts

— it might be less of a hassle to switch to a wordpress.com or another wordpress hosted account and not have to worry about these server issues

Good to hear. Can you mark this ticket as resolved?

A lot of strange (non-WordPress) things happen when I go to your site…

If I click on another page (like http://www.zudorfloors.net/flooring-project-list.html) a lot of the navigation images don’t appear because their location is not referenced correctly…for your images you should change

src="images/nav-5-I.png"

to

"<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/images/nav-5-I.png"

and for your URLs you should change

href="/hardwood-flooring.html"

to

"href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?page_id=3"

for each corresponding page

you also should change your apache settings on your /images/ directory so it’s not indexed (add Options -Indexes directive)

I'd like to have the author accompany all posts on all pages.

You’ll need to change each of these files:
index.php
archive.php
page.php
single.php

In index.php change:

<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> </small>

to

<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>  by <?php the_author() ?></small>

In archive.php change:

<small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></small>

to

<small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?>  by <?php the_author() ?></small>

In page.php and single.php change:

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

to

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<small>by <?php the_author() ?></small>

Note that you can put any xhtml markup around <?php the_author(); ?> (not just <small> </small>)

I understand the concept of the loop, but don't know which files affect it.

–Each template page can have its own (or many different) loop(s)…which makes WP really flexible, but also tricky sometimes to determine which file changes what page…

Can you list the php files in your theme?

For example:
index.php
archive.php
single.php

Also, on which page(s) are you trying to add the author name? All pages, just the home page, category page? (it’d probably also help if you could post a link to your site).

Did you recently change your permalink structure (/wp-admin/options-permalink.php) or delete your .htaccess file?