manstraw

Having considerable experience with both fireworks and photoshop, I will use only fireworks if I can get away with it. If I need to do more than a minor amount of photo processing, I’ll do the bulk of the work in photoshop. Although some might think it’s bloaty, it has all the tools, and much more power than meets the eye. Once the image is more or less ready, I’ll pick it up in fireworks to get it ready for web. I also use fireworks for most of my type oriented work, as I prefer the fireworks interface for those tasks. fireworks ultimately slows down too much on large images, a major weakness. that scratch disk in photoshop serves a good purpose.

but if you just want to crop and scale, it really doesn’t matter what you use. I’ve ever launch ms paint for that.

thanks otto, I’ll check that puppy out.

anyone want to test it for me 😉

The proper way to add space is through css. you could add do this for example:

<p style="margin-top: 6ex;">This line will have space above equal in height to 6 letter x's.</p>

even better would be to create a style in your css file that does that, and then you just tag your line appropriately with a class attribute. for example, if you did:

<p class="biggapper">This line will have a gap before it shows up/</p>

And then added to your css file:

.biggapper { margin-top: 6ex; }

you would be doing your gap ala modern standards. The real benefit to this is you can changet he gap in the future for every occasion of biggapper in your html merely by changing the css value ONCE.

We’re supposed to separate style from content these days.

But if you really insist on putting in multiple breaks, you can create a functions.php file in your theme, and add code that will disable the automatic removal of them. If you search this forum for wpautop, you’ll find a thread where it’s explained how. You will also likely need to disable the visual editor for your account, and click off that option for fixing xhtml nesting (I forget what it’s called, I think it’s under writing options).

I recall a wordpress plugin that could do basic editing, including cropping and flipping etc. Who even needs a separate program! I had tested it, and it worked just fine. I don’t remember which plugin though.

You could start looking for it here http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Images. If I can figure out which plugin that was, I’ll return here with the info.

an example link would be helpful. Perhaps you have content that is too wide on your page.

screw plugins? widgets make these sorts of changes easier for novice types. Without knowing anything about php, it’s easy to introduce errors when you edit a file, and not have a clue how it went wrong. If the theme is widget aware, it’s easy schmeazy.

glad you’re sorted out omorchoe

I just went to your site. It says ‘index’.

Sometimes people forget to hit the save button on the widgets page. Did that happen in this case? And then you tried again later and it took? If you still see Categories, maybe you’re seeing a cached page. Do the appropriate browser refreshing in that case.