jonimueller

The above being said, I’m not sure how much there is to critique about your site. You’re using Brian Gardner’s Revolution theme with minor changes and the design doesn’t break in my ancient vesion of IE6. Considering the subject matter of the blog, I wouldn’t expect too many or too heavy-handed graphics so you’re good there.

rtl.css is only for right-to-left text (such as is common in Muslim or Asian blogs, which generally read from right to left, rather than left to right).

You need to put that code into the style.css file; that’s prolly why nothing’s worked for you.

I’m looking at your stylesheet and I don’t see #sidebar in there at all. I did a “Find” and came up with nothing.

Bear in mind that you have a fixed width wrapper so that limits the area you have to work with. You need to be sure there’s enough “air” between the left #content and right #sidebar. Then within #sidebar you should be able to apply margins and padding that you want, but remember if you add margins and padding there, you’ll need to adjust it downward elsewhere or the sidebar will drop down below the content. Make sense?

That’s incorrect.

It should be:
#sidebar ul
#sidebar ul li
#sidebar ul ul
#sidebar ul li ul li < for child list elements

And also remember that Opera, FF and IE all put different amounts of left padding into list elements to begin with so you’ll have to play with it and possibly write a conditional stylesheet if you want them exactly alike across all browsers.

http://www.darrenfauth.com/css-sandbox/css-list-cross-browser.php

😉

My frustrations with this forum is known. I think it is horrible that WordPress puts up a forum, calls it “support” and then it turns out that it is mostly the somewhat less blind leading the totally blind.

Unbelievable. It’s free software offered under the GPL. What do you propose be done? Set up a phone bank somewhere? Have the devs chained to their computers answering asinine questions all day? Because there’s more of THOSE kind of questions being asked than legitimate pleas for help.

I am not telling you to stop posting, I am asking nicely.

What hubris.

File permissions are set by you via your FTP client. That’s the only way to do that. You can upload any theme to the theme folder and once permissions are properly set, edit away, whether it’s your own design or someone else’s. That really doesn’t matter. You seemed so certain on the list that it was NOT a file permission issue, that the files were set to 766 (which is what they need to be in order to be editable from within the theme editor console). At least it’s solved.

Also, maybe all the JS files didn’t make their way over on upload. Can you check that?