Peter Boosten

The comment is embedded in 4 div tags (in the example you point to <b /> tags are being used), all those tags have a corner image assigned to it.

It’s a common way to create a rounded box. Underneath an additional image is added to form the point.

It’s not that hard, but you need some xhtml- and css knowledge for it.

A ’rounded box’ tutorial can be found here.

Peter

Because that has been defined in your stylesheet:

.post p:first-child {
  color:#F44040;
  font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Arial;
  font-size:16px;
  font-weight:lighter;
  line-height:17px;
}

(style.css line 330)

Peter

The short answer is ‘yes, they can be merged’, but the reality is a bit more complex: you would have to copy both the xhtml code and styling information for that part into the other theme, which may or may not be different in layout.

If you’re looking for an easy answer, you won’t find it.

Peter

The easiest way is to drag the ‘Archives’ widget into your sidebar.

Another way is to create a page template, like suggested by esmi, around this code:

<?php wp_get_archives(apply_filters('widget_archives_args', array('type' => 'monthly', 'show_post_count' => $c))); ?>

Peter

Sorry, but none of the php pages listed in my editor has that code listed

No offense, but I don’t think you looked for it hard enough. those divs are in sidebar.php cq sidebar2.php.

Nonetheless changing the theme the way you want to might prove to be tricky (at least). The sidebars are called from within functions.php, which uses options to decide whether 1 or 2 sidebars should be shown (all this from a quick glance at the code), and these options are global, not per page.

Peter

I suppose I could automatically create WordPress pages when the theme is activated using the functions.php file. That seems a bit dicey to me – too many ways for that to end badly. Or, I could just have the functions.php file load a purely static page from somewhere.

You could always create page templates, holding static text, but you’ld have to assign them to a page anyway (which has to be created).

Peter

margin-top?

Peter

So I was right, this is your current structure:

<div id="rap">
  <div id="header">
    <div class="header-title"></div>
    <div class="header-description"></div>
  </div>
  <div id='menu-left'>
    <div id="search"> </div>
    <div id="content">
      <div class="post">
        <div class="meta"></div>
        <div class="storycontent"></div>
        <div class="feedback"></div>
      </div>
      <div style="visibility:hidden; display:none"></div>
      <div style="visibility:hidden; display:none"></div>
    </div>
    <div id="credit"></div>
    <div id="footer"></div>

I would suggest this:

<div id="rap">
  <div id="header">
    <div class="header-title"></div>
    <div class="header-description"></div>
  </div>
  <div id='menu-left'>
    <div id="search"> </div>
  </div>
  <div id="content">
    <div class="post">
      <div class="meta"></div>
      <div class="storycontent"></div>
      <div class="feedback"></div>
    </div>
    <div style="visibility:hidden; display:none"></div>
    <div style="visibility:hidden; display:none"></div>
  </div>
  <div id="credit"></div>
  <div id="footer"></div>
</div>

Two missing </div>‘s

Peter