lostinablog

Thank you Charle97! That worked. I was accidentally selecting uncategorized. Could you tell me exactly what to do to set the category listing tag not to show uncategorized? It would be a huge help to me, because if I don’t I am afraid I will be making some major boo boos with my blog repeadly by accidentally putting stuff in uncategorized!

Now everything is getting published in uncategorized again. I have other categories, but everything nis getting published in uncategorized. What is wrong!?

It is one problem after another!

Ok. I didn’t realize what was happening and now it is fixed… I see the categories!

How do I change their order however?

Chillbilly,

Thanks for the information, but I am still a little confused. By the way, I took your advise and took a short nap. Did I sure need it!

You see, I like the blog how it is right now at 900 wide. However, I want the middle column to shrink for people that have a lower resolution. I really just don’t understand the difference between narrow column and widecolumn. What do these two represent. There is only one center column in my blog, so does one of these represent the center column when the resolution is over 800 and the other when it is under 800?

Again, I appreciate any and all help you or anyone else can provide…

In the past few minutes I see more problems I need to overcome. I think this will be a long night.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me so far. My brain is a little less fried, but having to use eye drops from looking at the screen for so many hours a day.

Hello,

Thanks for being willing to help. I really do appreciate it. I looked and looked for a template that was close to what I needed, and this was the only one out of probably a thousand that I looked at that would come close. Of course I am having to try and make some major changes on it.

What I needed was a basic three column template around (with a left column, middle, and then right) 800 to 900 resolution wide with a totally empty left hand column, compatible with wordpress 2.2, able to use widgets if I need them in the future, etc. This was the only one that came close to that. I looked and looked and this one was the only one.

There is a SEVERE lack of BASIC three column templates like this one that have no graphics to start with and have a left column, middle, and then right column.

Also, I want to admit that I know very little CSS or html. Two weeks ago I knew none at all. However, I have invested about 20 hours of time making the alterations in this template I have accomplished so far. So I really don’t want to switch.

If you are talking about the text in the middle column then it looks white to me, but I guess you could call it very, very light grey. Could you tell me how to change it?

If I have to load up another template I will probably loose all of my little remaining hair. Can anyone tell me how to make this one so that the middle column shrinks if someone views it with another resolution?

I wish that I could have found the kind of template I wanted from the start but it did not exist. I looked for days and days.

It seems the more basic the template (especially three column, with an empty column, all the other stuff on the right hand column and so fourth) are rare as gold.

I would consider using one if someone has one they can suggest, but otherwise I really need to alter this one.

Thanks so much for your help. I apologize if I seem a little cranky but I have been up far too long, been getting little sleep for the past week, my eyes are on fire from staring into the screen for 10 hours a time with hardly no breaks, etc.

I just need to get this stuff done. 🙁

sinick,

Thank you very much for your response. I have only found two urls for my posted images so far. The one in the daily uploads and by using the image name at http://www.whateveryourdomian.com/images/imagename.jpg

You see, I am very new to all of this too and I am just wondering which of the two above formats is safe to prevent someone from going in the above and hacking into wordpress or the server it is hosted on (just purchased the hosting too).

Basically, I am cluess about this stuff and terrified I am going to do something really stupid and find out a hacker has gotten in and erased everything after several weeks of working on my blog has gone by.

Does anyone know if visitors can hack your wordpress by using either of the above mentioned URL locations for your images and linking to them? Are those both safe? Are they not safe?

Someone please help me and sinick with this.

I have now discovered I can go to my images by typing the url.com/images/filename.jpg

What is the difference between THIS and the URL that wordpress gives me after I upload the image, click the image, get it’s properties, and use that URL which is something like wp-content/uploads/2006/04/imagename.jpg as an example?

Which one should I use? Which one is secure so that I won’t get hacked?

I am lost as to what is going on. would someone please answer my questions and help me?

Thank you very very much for your assistance.