mortalwombat

Andrew: Yeah, that gradient is the repeating background-image. It repeats vertically, of course. I don’t see the issue in Chrome either.

esmi: It does look that way, doesn’t it? I promise it’s not any sort of jQuery I put in though. I started my theme based on the WordPress Naked theme, and so far have only made modifications to the php and css files.

Also, I have just been playing with http://testsite.com/test/weddings/?gallery=children

passing variables that way is kinda ugly, but is it OK? How is it for SEO? Obviously, people can’t assume what the URL might be that way, which I never like, but since these pages are pretty far down in the tree, it’s not the worst thing ever, but I want to make sure Google can find the content OK.

Also note, if I hard code the string into the variable, things work fine:

function build_upperfooter() {
	$wtf = "http://mattandjentry.com/test/wp-content/themes/_mattandjentry2";
	$upperfooter_output = '
		<div id="upper_footer">
			<div id="upper_footer_content">
				<ul>
					<li class="social"><img src="' . $wtf . '/images/facebook_icon.png" alt="visit our facebook page" /><a targe="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/mattandjentry">Facebook</a></li>
					<li class="social"><img src="' . $wtf . '/images/twitter_icon.png" alt="visit our twitter feed" /><a targe="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/#!/mattandjentry">Twitter</a></li>
					<li class="social"><img src="' . $wtf . '/images/pinterest_icon.png" alt="visit our pinterest boards" /><a targe="_blank" href="http://pinterest.com/jentrydryden/">Pinterest</a></li>
					<li class="address">1451 Alvin Ct. * Sparks, NV 89434 | 775.332.9807</li>
				</ul>
			</div>
			<p class="copyright">&copy; <?php echo date("Y") ?> Matt and Jentry: Photographers, LLC</p>
		</div>';
	return $upperfooter_output;
 }

Yup, I am still stuck. I feel like there is something fundamental I am missing here. I have created a function for my Upper Footer, and it puts everything where I want it except for one small thing. I am using bloginfo("template_url") to get the path to the images inside my template. It outputs the results of the template_url outside of the div, and puts the rest where it belongs, which results in a text display of the path the to template outside the div, and broken links inside the div. Here is my code.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that! It works great. I didn’t know I had to do that though. What I don’t understand is why echo has the results that it does, and why return works better. I understand the fundamental difference between echo and return, but didn’t know it could create issues like that.

Can you explain the problem behind echo?

OK, so changing echo to return worked for the slideshow gallery. Thanks!

However, the one that includes a php file with HTML in it is still having troubles.

BTW Digital Raindrops – If you guys are looking for a good wedding photographer, I know some! :p

Thanks for the heads up on the IE7 view. I will probably have some custom CSS for mobile, just to keep things pretty, but I won’t have a full mobile site. I tend to think that’s a silly requirement for a lot of sites. Mobile sites are great for sites that have a content people want to keep up to date with – News, shopping, etc. But sites for business like photographers are very much about the visual aspect. I would rather them see the site on the phone the same way they would on the computer.