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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: fixing post widthIs your frame wider than 400 pixels or less? If your text is in a frame less than 400 pixels wide then the width:400px will push the text out to the edge. In a frame greater than 400 pixels you can drop the width specification and let the text push the width out. You can also use width:auto. Your frame width should then control the width.
Body width can override the divisions within body. Javascript can override both. Global search your Web site for 100% then search for width:. You could have a width:700px or width:90% somewhere.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Anyone Succeeding with 1.5.1?PS, if you can spell ditzy then you are over qualified to use PHP. I managed to teach PHP to a person who had problems answering the question “are you awake”. Apparently transitioning from “eh” to the next word was too much for one day.
With a little training, that person managed to rebuild a static HTML site in to a dynamic PHP/MySQL site in a few days. I never did find out what came after “eh”.
Installing WordPress and modifying a theme would have cut the training from three days to less than one day. I would have spent only one morning watching the lad attempt to understand the complex interaction between his hand, mouth, and coffee cup.
One poster described problems installing WP and then revealed that his/her ISP uses ASP instead of Apache. Was there not a warning against that in the bible? I have used ASP very successfully but getting Web pages out of ASP still reminds me of the birth scene in the movie Alien.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Anyone Succeeding with 1.5.1?My 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 worked exactly as advertised and I used the opportunity to rework my theme and code modifications. Last time I modified the default theme. This time I renamed my default theme to my own name so it would not be replaced during the update. It all seemed so easy that I could do it with my mouse tied behind my back.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: WordPress for mamboI replaced a Xoops site with WordPress because Xoops is too hard to change and WP does some things better. I tried Mambo for one site but dropped Mambo early in the site development stage. Drupal looks more interesting than either Mambo or Xoops. There are other people interested in making WP Drup.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: WordPress & Drupal Review & ExperiencesWordPress has pretty permalinks. I did not see an example of that at Drupal. Everything else about Drupal looks ok.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Problem Installing with GoDaddyAsk Godaddy to switch you from Windows to Linux.
I use both Linux and Windows. Windows Pro (originally NT) and NTFS are easier to use if you develop software yourself but most open source software is set up for Linux. Using the defaults is easier than changing things for Windows.
I am sitting at a Windows machine with Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I upload a WordPress site from this Windows machine to a Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL machine. Nothing changes other than one line in .htaccess which has nothing to do with WordPress.
When I work on ASP, there are all sorts of painful abnormalities that have to be treated. ASP is usually the problem. ASP uses weird directory configurations. If you change to Linux then you will get Apache. Open source is set up for Apache and everyone knows Apache. You will get fewer problems with Apache and more people can help.