manstraw

perhaps your host isn’t sending the correct http header back. I would first check with them first. could be the wrong mime type.

not enough information. could you provide an example link? or more info?

glad you’re sorted!

At what point did you get with the install exactly. It’s common to get an internal server error if there is something wrong with an .htaccess file, or it tries to use a feature not supported by the server. If did anything with .htaccess, or got far enough into the install process that you access the admin, and enabled permalinks (which installs an .htaccess file), I would look there. If you didn’t do those things, I would need more information to guess what happened.

Resize? It doesn’t need to be resized after it’s opened, it can be opened at the right size to start. That can be done with an onclick for your link. I might make a little listen picture, and then apply an onclick to it.

<img onclick="window.open('whateverpage.html','','width=200,height=100,scrollbars=no')" src="images/listenimage.jpg" alt="Listen!">

If I haven’t make a typo, that example should display an image, and when you click it, open a new window 200 x 100 and have scrollbars off.

Would that suit you?

I would recommend you do that in your theme. Are you comfortable editing your theme?

Is the email you want the one attached to the poster? Or is it the admin? Always the same? I might actually recommend a contact form on your site instead of an email (could see have the link to it as you other wise describe). Spam bots enjoy surfing websites to find emails. I haven’t added an email to a site for quite a long time now for this reason. I encourage people to use contact forms instead. Thoughts on that?

Well, one way to do it is through widgets. This is just one way, and is based on you easily editing the info to custom create the menu so you can put anything in it. It’s a ‘simple solution’.

I might create a separate sidebar, which should probably be called a topbar in this case. Write the style for it so it displays at the top just as you might have now. Widgets can be configured to have you control the contents of more than one sidebar. So I would do that, and have it control the content of this new top bar.

Then I would manually create the contents for the topbar as a text widget. I’d just put the html in there that I want. This is very flexible, but would require knowledge of html at this point. Or you could use a links widgets. Or probably a few other ways. What’s important is that the widget system can let you control the content.

Does that make sense? Would it serve your needs?

I do something similar to this, but I don’t widgetize the process (but I might at some point). I just write the custom links into my header, and edit it when I want to add one. As this is easy for me, I haven’t found the need to make it more complicated than that. Feedback from you might answer if this is something you and others might find valuable. Or if it’s not what you want, say that too. No problem.

pages don’t have to show the sidebar. you can change the appropriate file in your theme.