Phil

Create a new stylesheet for IE and add it’s own styling to get it like the other browsers.

You have to change/add a few widths here (BACKUP style.css first!):

#container {
width: 100%;
}

#primary {
width: 535px;
}

#content {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 960px;
}

#logo {
width: 100%;
}

This will pretty much get you where you want (full width header and footer, rest of site in container). You may need to tweak it (eg, #feedarea dl width etc, Logo image is currently 960px etc), but hopefully this helps you out.

Phil

I’d personally trying doing it like this:

<?php query_posts('category_name=blog2&showposts=10'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
    <?php the_excerpt() ?>
  </li>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Showposts can be set to whatever you like.

Although not sure how you are displaying the posts in this template…

This is the wrong forum to be asking this. SEO is nothing to do with WordPress troubleshooting. Try an SEO forum for more helpful advice.

That said, switching the site to WordPress from HTML will only have affected it if the content/meta/sitemaps/page titles/urls changed.

The validator is really a guide to work towards – and can help with broken sites/content sometimes eg, unclosed divs.

If you check BBC.co.uk website in the validator – it still shows errors (check). Ideally, you want all your code and CSS to validate, but sometimes you can’t do anything about one or two eg, facebook like box sometimes throws errors.

1. You don’t create page templates by creating a page and calling it template.php – you need to create a PHP file called template.php and upload it to the theme folder of your theme.

2. You then create a page in WP admin, and choose the template from the drop-down menu of available templates on the right.

3. You then add the new page to your menu’s etc like a normal page.

If you read the link Esmi mentioned, you will learn how to correctly set up a custom template. Searching on Google also helps as there are lots of examples and tutorials. It’s always better to learn these things instead of people doing them for you – you will learn a lot more doing it this way.

The code I gave you would need to go into a PHP template.

It’s the only way really of doing it as you cannot do this through widgets as they don’t like PHP unless you use a plugin like this
.

Not sure, but if you locate style.css (Appearance -> Editor), find this (it’s on line 159):

#top div.main-nav a

and add in this in:

text-transform: lowercase;

So the finished article looks like:

#top div.main-nav a {
    border-right: 1px dotted #666666;
    color: #EEEEEE;
    display: block;
    line-height: 15px;
    padding: 0 1em;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-transform: lowercase;
}

That should do the trick!

Phil