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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [REQUEST] Looking for designers to modify WordPress skinsWhen you’re ready to get realistic on your pricing I’d be happy to quote you. Feel free to contact me through my website.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Pretty Plus Lingerie Blog Launcheddamn, I hate 800 x 600, and this layout’s been touchy all along. Thanks, I know the drill.
Cube is fun to work with. Once I got used to the way it’s set up I actually found it easier than WP. Only problem with the prog is that anything that adds functionality is a core hack, which I don’t like. But templating that one is a dream.
Oh and I did Cube first with this, then WP. Not that it makes much difference with slice and dice. 🙂
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Problem With Text Not Wrapping Around ImagesIn order for the float property to properly display in most browsers you need to define a width on the floating element in order for the text to render properly around it. You can set the width either on the class in the css, or on the image itself in the image tag. See if that helps. I’d also suggest staying away from inline style right in your post code. It’s rarely a good idea.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Pretty Plus Lingerie Blog LaunchedA BANG-UP job? And I thought my mind was the one in the gutter! Thanks for the kudos on the site, it was hard banging this one out (*giggle*) but worth it. And Nickie’s a lotta fun to work with.
Geez, hope none of the other moderators get their knickers in a twist over this . . . *runs the other direction*
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Quick little questionYes, the closing tag is there. The opening tag isn’t.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: comments and suggestions, pleaseMaybe it’s just me, but I’ve got font sizes set in my browser so that 99% of the websites out there appear to have a font size that falls within a very comfortable range for me- and my feeling is that this is the way things should be designed, so that people don’t have to make adjustments to view YOUR particular website- they make those adjustments once, upon setting up their new computer for the first time and then never have to touch that again. This one, however, has font sizes that seem to be very much larger than any other unless I do make those adjustments just to view this site- but then I have to adjust them back for all the other sites, in my view, a PITA.
Now, if there is an accessibility issue and the majority of the people who will be viewing this site will need that large font size, then that’s understandable, and certainly I can survive one website that shouts at me (though I might not come back for repeat visits) but if you’re aiming for a wider audience, you might consider scaling that back just a bit.
[FF 1.0.7, Win2K]
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: comments and suggestions, pleaseumm, are the thumbnails up top supposed to be vertically aligned? It looks a bit . . . peculiar. And ditto on the font size, it feels like you’re SHOUTING at everybody.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Power Your WordPress?-quote-
I kept waiting for Tony Little or Ron Popiel to pop out and say “But, there’s more! Act now and also….”
-unquote-Even worse– anyone from the greater NYC area remember Crazy Eddie?
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Unfortunately, I don’t suppose there’s any difference in this and me, wearing my web designer hat, offering to install WordPress and X number of themes and plugins to someone’s site for $79 (or whatever I felt like charging). Is this a good analogy?
-unquote-If this is a service you are performing for someone who has not the knowledge or is incapable in some other way, then no, this is not an apt analogy, since this person is paying you for your time and expertise to perform a specific service. Just like the custom and proprietary designs I create and make into wordpress themes for the exclusive use of a particular client are not in any way analogous.
This “power” person is packaging up the hard work of others, adding very little of any extra value or originality and profiting by it via a line of bs deep enough to bury the whole herd.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Calling php onto a static pageThe “creating a static front page” instructions are meant to make a WordPress Page become the homepage of the blog portion of your website. However, if your blog doesn’t reside in your toplevel directory it can’t “create” the index page of your site unless you do some .htaccess magic or somesuch.
What you CAN do is call in parts of your blog into your static homepage. Instructions here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/45242See it in action here, in the right side column:
http://kickasswebdesign.comOne caveat– if you’re already indexed in the search engines for yourdomain.com/index.html and you change the page to yourdomain.com/index.php you will LOSE your SE ranking. There is a way to change the .htaccess so that php will be recognized in pages that have .htm and .html extensions. If the site is new and not really recognized yet it won’t matter.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Power Your WordPress?It gets worse. He’s got affiliates with cookie cutter sites all selling this sh***t. The mildew is spreading . . .
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Power Your WordPress?Um, I came up with one idea . . . though it borders on being nasty back . . .
http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2005/11/power-your-wordpress/
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Your Sites Rank on TechnoratiHmm. 125,595. I must be doing something wrong, that number is VERY low . . . 😉
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Spam Possible from Contact Form Plugin?????????There may not be a way to farm an email address from the form, ryanduff, but there is a way robots are submitting to it. If you wish, I will forward the group of three I just received to your email address, and maybe you’ll be able to see what they’re doing and how. Just let me know at bj at kickasswebdesign dot com.
Kinda bums me out since I installed this to foil this very thing, and your site says, “Improved Spam Handling– now rejects bot generated spam messages”
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: When IE Happens to Good PeopleOn a commercial site you need to pay attention to stats. 1% of my rather considerable traffic uses IEMac, which is the only css-enabled browser that works on OS less than X. I choose not to ignore them. And IEMac problems are usually pretty easily fixable, you just have to know where to look for the solutions:
Kickass WebGeek Resources- CSS Browser BugsForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Template Customisation help neededYou might wanna fix the validation errors first, it’ll be easier to troubleshoot if they’re not causing problems.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.thedigitaldemons.com/marc/