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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gibberish code after comment’s, trackbacks, and pingbacksI’m glad we could help.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using wordpress as a personal websiteYou might want to start here:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gibberish code after comment’s, trackbacks, and pingbackstry this:
#content code
{
color: #7EC0EE; /*note closing semicolon*/
}instead of this:
#content code
{
color: #7EC0EE
}Also, make sure the 0 in that hexadecimal is a numeral and not the capital letter O.
Oh, and inline style? BBBAAADDD IDEA! Get rid of it and put it in the stylesheet.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Error in status bar and missing text while scrolling!?Why don’t you post a screenshot and answer vkaryl’s questions about the screen resolution it’s happening in? Then MAYBE we can see what is going on . . . until you do all we’re doing is guessing, so it’s no wonder you aren’t getting any satisfaction with this. We can’t help you until you give us the information we need.
Oh, and did you actually try the peekaboo fix? More possibilities here:
http://kickasswebdesign.com/webgeekdir/CSS/Browser_Bugs/
And here:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=InternetExplorerWinBugsDidn’t happen for me, btw.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Negative Margin Layouts Bork in WP 2.0.XVicki, the only thing that makes me hold out hope that the conditional comment isn’t the problem is that I also have it on the “simple crappy” layouts that work in 2.0 with no sidebar problems. But then again, these themes that cough a hairball with 2.0 are very complex layouts and we all know that 2.0 does seem to have a bit of an issue with jscript. Even good well-written jscript.
And yes, you’re very right. If it is the conditional comment this could get ugly.
Michael, you’re right, people do make mistakes, that is what the validator is for. 🙂
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Negative Margin Layouts Bork in WP 2.0.XOh, so you did give it a good workout. A couple other people who snagged it off my blog also did, and couldn’t see a damn thing wrong with it.
ooh, I just had a thought. There is a bit of a sort of a kind of a jscript in there . . . the conditional comment for lte IE 6 browsers to call the iestyle.css that hides stuff from IE7 . . . podz, could that have ANYTHING to do with this? We have to use that now to futureproof our sites against the advent of IE7 . . . oh PLEASE tell me that has nothing to do with it!
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/iestyle.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Negative Margin Layouts Bork in WP 2.0.XPodz, thanks, I’ll play with clearing that cache out and see if that makes a difference on either of these two borked themes. The database on my test install is fine. Oh, for the record, vkaryl downloaded and verified the Brill layout theme bork. I think she ran it on her local install. There was no javascript of any kind in that theme, nor in the one on the PIE layout. But I have had some issues with jscript and the sidebar on another theme using the PIE layout.
Michael,
First of all, the links I posted are for CSS LAYOUTS that were created by some of the top xhtml/css coders on the planet (you didn’t recognize those names?)
Secondly, if the layout works on a static html page in every browser, even IEMac, and the layout works on WP 1.5.x in every browser, even IEMac, and it works when templated to a different program in every browser, even IEMac, then it’s not a browser issue, especially when the layout borks exactly the same way in EVERY browser, including IEMac, but only in WP 2.0. Follow MY logic?
Thirdly, I have created probably in the neighborhood of 50 or more themes. I think I know how by now. I’m not a beginner, as most of the regular people here know.
This is the list of plugins I have active on my test blog:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post using only htmlI repeat–
UNCHECK the box.
Maybe if you want your html to look pretty you should be using static html pages to blog . . . Oops, Podz, I REALLY didn’t mean that in a sarcastic manner, really! *hides behind vkaryl*
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post using only htmlOh, one more thing . . .
This will allow you to post html nicely, but there are no guarantees that WP won’t add whitespace where you don’t want it (like in list code where it triggers IE hasnolayout bugs) so I’m not sure this is going to do what you want. If you want it to look “pretty” when you look at source code, you might find it doesn’t.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post using only htmlIn 2.0 admin go into options/writing and uncheck the box that says “Users should use the visual rich editor by default”. Save your new setting.
Now go into write/post and click the button that says “html” and paste out of notepad and into that window.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: IE Support for WP-Andreas09Here’s some links for you:
Scroll down on this one, Bruno’s got a whole section on IEMac fixes on this page:
http://www.brunildo.org/test/Code Bitch’s Mac Edition:
http://www.macedition.com/cb/ie5macbugs/You’ll need this to feed stuff to IEMac so that other browsers don’t see it:
http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/And more:
http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/And the group to beat all groups if you can’t get the answer any other way:
http://www.css-discuss.orgForum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: The transition from simple elgance to— plain uglinessIt isn’t just you.
I came in on the web back in ’95 and started learning web design not long after that. The attitude then was to jam every cool thing you could do onto a page until it was so bloated and had so much going on that the theory was people would have so much to do and see they wouldn’t wander away. But it got TOO DAMN CLUTTERED. Got to the point where all those flashing and whizzing and blinking things became such a distraction no one saw the content. It’s no wonder the pendulum swung in the other direction!
But yes, it’s swung too far and for too long in the direction of WAY too simple. Though some designers can handle the Zen of a simple webpage and make it sing, most are just aping (badly) what they see happening, or, even worse, following their client’s instructions on what the client wants (read what the client is paying for whether it’s good for him/her or not.) And unfortunately I’m as guilty as anybody else. The girl’s gotta pay her bills and if the client wants a mostly white website with a little badge in the corner and a bit of a very subtle gradient in the background near one of the edges (usually blue to white OR gray to white)– in other words a website just like everyone else’s, that is what the client gets. Actually, I end up dressing it up a little and then take the stuff I added back out at the client’s request is the way *that* usually goes.
I can’t tell you how much fun it is when I get a small businessperson who IS NOT web savvy who wants me to just create the most fabulous design that represents THEIR personality in whatever way I see fit. That’s when fun happens, and that’s when magic happens. Unfortunately it doesn’t happen often enough. Those designs are NOT plain. Neither are they “busy”. They’re just FUN (and sometimes, dare I say it, IN YOUR FACE) design and usually get the most compliments and the most work re referrals.
Just don’t blame it on (all) designers. It’s usually not their fault, though there are some who won’t do anything BUT the empty page look.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Can wordpresss support media?Yes, but . . . it’s not easy. Some of the possible problems– bad behavior plugin sometimes fouls up the works, sometimes server settings are such that file uploads/downloads are set to a too low filesize by your host, if you use third party aps to post you can’t use the default browser in 2.0.x, and sometimes it just plain doesn’t work for your particular server config. Hope that helps.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: IE Support for WP-Andreas09I’m not familiar with this theme, but I’ve troubleshot enough for IE to tell you that with IE 1 + 1 = 2.01 when it comes to pixel widths (maybe not EXACTLY that but IE always needs more room for everything. It’s the broken browser.) Oh, and you didn’t post an image in a post that was too big for the post column, did you?
I did look at the site you’re linked to and it’s fine in both FF and IE at 1024 x 768, unless you’re talking about another site.
My suggestion is to narrow widths in the stuff in the columns, mostly on padding and margins. Do a bit at a time, and keep testing in IE. I’d also validate the theme and make sure there’s nothing going on there, though Andreas’s stuff is usually known to be pretty clean, so I doubt it’s that.
If stuff is looking crappo in the other browsers after you’ve made it look good in IE, there is another way– feed IE a special stylesheet via conditional comments and make those width adjustments there only for IE using the * html hack and make sure you hide the IE adjustments from IE Mac, which is the only IE that almost works.
Xhtml/css would be SO easy if most of the world didn’t use the broken browser . . .
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Errors after following instructions to include links outside WPGregg, I’m sure there’s a way to alter the template tag to do this.
<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=5'); ?>That’s the part that would need to be altered. Check in the codex and I’m sure you’ll find what you need in the template tags/archives section.