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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Bizarre problem!Using em for font sizes is never a good idea, it kicks off way too many browser bugs, especially in, you guessed it, IE. I suspect that’s part of your problem. The other part of your problem, the sidebar fontsize and the difference in post color and such, could have something to do with inheritance. IE does weird things with inheriting font sizes, especially in nested lists.
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingEms
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sizematters/For starters I would try specifying on body a font-size of 100.01% then adjust it from there, using percentage, for all other divs.
One other comment– I doubt very many people have the font you specify for title installed on their system.
Good luck!
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Codex: New Look!Though it was pretty dang good before, I can see where this reorganization is going to be very helpful, especially for newbies.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Theme SwitcherI couldn’t get this plug working either. I kept getting a header error, it made ONE semisuccessful themeswitch (still “header” errors, but it showed the right theme) then it wouldn’t work again. I can’t tell you what the header error is exactly, since I had to deactivate the plug (I use the site as part of my portfolio and just bid a couple jobs- can’t have errors showing now!) I can tell you that the plug was trying to produce header stuff that was already being produced by either my theme or by WP itself, if that makes sense.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Edit with dreamweaverOne piece of advice– work in codeview, and don’t bother with the preview. Since theme files are “pieces” of html pages (generated by php) DW can’t display them properly. Best to edit, upload, then test. If the page doesn’t work, use “view source” to troubleshoot.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Existing HTML/div layout to a new WP template?I’ve found this article really helpful. It dissects the Kubrick “default” theme, and tells you what you need to change to customize it. Since you already seem to have the understanding of the underlying css, I’m sure you’ll be up and running on your own layout in no time. Using this article it took me about 5 to 6 hours for the first one. Now I can knock out a theme in a couple hours. One piece of advice before you start tearing everything apart- certain key areas are central to each theme. Header, sidebar, content, and footer are the biggies, and there are some classes you’ll want to alter and use rather than delete. You’ll do better to change your div names to ones already in use for those areas, it’s a mistake I made on my first one, and had to go back in and fix.
The article:
http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/
http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/22/themeguide2/The other place to go for answers is the codex. After you’ve gotten your theme working and you just wanna tweak this here and that there, the codex has the answers– and if that fails you already found this messageboard.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Good luck! I’ll be looking for your newly created theme on the “strut your stuff” thread . . .
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Loading order of WordPress templatesI suspect your server is a Democrat . . .
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Google SitemapWow. It’s codexed already! You guys rock. Really.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Photos with CaptionsI use this method. If you keep the photos to all a similar width up to a certain max, you can just keep reusing it wherever you need.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Collapsible Menus In SidebarTry one of these:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/css-flyout.htmlhttp://www.seoconsultants.com/css/menus/vertical/
tutorial here:
http://www.tanfa.co.uk/css/examples/menu/tutorial-v.aspGood luck!
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Need browser checks(esp mac) & comments, new themeThough IEMac isn’t a big deal, I feel that since I’m a pro web designer and eventually going to be letting these themes out for general consumption I need to make them compatible with as many browsers as possible, otherwise I don’t look very pro, huh?
The other thing is MY OWN stats. I do have surfers who use IEMac. Not many, but they are part of my audience, so I at least have to give them some sort of functionality, even if the site isn’t as pretty for them. A couple of the sites I manage are sites where a significant portion of the target audience are near-luddites re computers, and use older computer/opsys/browser combos. Target audience is always something we all need to look at. Have you looked at your own stats that way?
Thanks for pointing out the search button thing, though when the theme is let loose it will have a custom image button, no matter how loud the accessibilty gurus scream. It drives me nuts that form elements have so little flexibility within the css spec and browser defaults and I pray that it’s all improved in css3 (which will be supported in IE7 by the year 2018 . . .)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Google SitemapI think this thread should be either stickeyed or put in the Codex, folks.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: What search engines should I submit too?Wow, I could write for hours about this question!
Rather than writing a book, I’ll summarize- the more links you have into your pages, the better your ranking in the top search engines, so submitting to well ranked directories is key to the success of your web promotion. The more specific the directory the more it helps you. For instance, if your site is about custom cars then submit to all the automotive directories you can find, as well as in the automotive sections of the general directories.
a few helpful links–
http://www.google.com/search?q=blog+promotion&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
http://www.pubsub.com/index.phpAnd this one should keep you busy for days and days:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=21900I have 8 sites at present that I manage. Weekly I submit all of them to at least 5 new places. That takes around a half hour to an hour. All are slowly creeping up in Google pagerank quite nicely, though this takes awhile because Google does “sandbox” your incoming links to make sure they’re true links.
Good luck!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: WP theme: Clean BlueBoth header corner and calendar alignment is boinked in IE6 on w2k. FF looks good. I would have tried to debug the css for you, but since it was all over the place instead of one neat file . . . sorry, that drives me nuts so you’re on your own.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Thank YouHaving used both Blogger and WP I second this! If you use a custom template in blogger they use that as an excuse not to deal with your support question- which means they deal with very little.
Here everyone goes out of their way to help people. What a difference!
And I don’t have to use the lagging, slow, nasty blogger server to post. Huzzah!
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Need browser checks(esp mac) & comments, new themeThank you all for doing the test drive, especially Sophie, who picked up on the IEMac bizarre hover behavior (which is exactly the kind of thing a screen shot on a browsercam can’t pick up!)
Back to the drawing board. I hate that dang browser.