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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: UTF Encoding and MySQL 4.1Please?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: UTF Encoding and MySQL 4.1Anyone?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: lighttpd support?You can also check http://lightpress.org/ for some information – it seems to be a WordPress port specifically intended for LightTPD use.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What’s MySQL?You can also try http://www.innereyes.com or http://www.weblogs.us too – both are more “homebrew” WP hosts, but the setup is done automatically and you can login immediately to start writing 🙂
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: MySQL vs. MS SQLOur server actually runs MySQL 4.0 (for the PHP4/IIS server), MySQL 4.1 (for the PHP5/Apache2 server), MySQL 5.0 RC (for fun), and SQL Server 2000 (mainly for IIS). All that on one machine, and no problems whatsoever.
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html is the page to download MySQL 4.1 if you have PHP5.
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html is the MySQL 4.0 download if you use PHP4.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can this be achieved in WordPress?Yup, that looks do-able by WordPress with a couple of plugins installed (like RecentComments and maybe MattsAsides). A theme would have to be developed as well to get a similar layout.
As for actually seeing something similar done, I don’t think I have. From the quick look I had it’s certainly within WordPress’s capabilities, but since *most* people use WordPress for personal blogging, they don’t do heavy layout customizations – just colour and graphic changes.
http://www.digitalrights.ca/ is a blog that remains unfinished, but shows the beginnings of a potentially useful WordPress template that could easily be modified to look more like the Print Culture site… maybe…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How was this mod of TriSexuality done?yup, form boxes (like, say, text input boxes) are very common culprits for breaking CSS floats, as well as images. if they’re too wide (and text boxes are different widths in both IE and standards-compliant browsers, another complication), they can break an otherwise purty layout in certain (ahem) browsers.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How was this mod of TriSexuality done?An option you might look at then is one of the free WordPress hosts – some of them offer FTP access along with the setup, which might be useful. http://www.weblogs.us and http://www.innereyes.com are two offhand, and you can also check the Hosting section of this site to see other ones.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How was this mod of TriSexuality done?In Firefox, the 3 columns are perfectly aligned – they all start at the top of the page. Are you using an older version of Firefox/Mozilla or any version of IE? IE is a notorius standards-ignorer, and some designers (not all, not even most, but some) have decided to ignore IE development in favour of standards-based development (which *should* work fine in IE7 when it’s released).
Anyhow, if your design (the one you end up with) does that wacky column thing, fishcakes is partly right, but it depends on the template. Most people designing for the web get screwed over by IE’s severly moronicly broken CSS box-model, and that looks like the problem on those two sites. I won’t go into detail on the box-model issues, as it’s covered in great detail pretty much everywhere else, but suffice it to say that a quick hack-patch of the CSS might fix that problem.
Just make sure your design is tested in the major browsers, and always code to the standards first because it’s easier to hack for IE afterwards than code for IE then rewrite for standards-based browsers 😉
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Windows Server – Using Permalinks with IIS no apache.To be honest, I’m not a ‘real’ Windows host, so I stupidly run Apache 2 on my Windows server (alongside IIS), where htaccess works just fine 😉 So I’m not sure how the permalinks for IIS work – but the codex does contain that information, so that should be your first stop to look for it (http://codex.wordpress.org).
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: paid installationSodani, instead of customizing the posting template, a small plugin could be written so that the target link would be a custom field in the post. Then the blog template gets modified to use that custom field as the link instead of the default permalink 🙂
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How was this mod of TriSexuality done?There are, to my knowledge, no official support team members for WordPress aside from the developers themselves.
While Moshu has a point about the difference in asking a practical question and a theoretical one, it probably doesn’t really apply here.
Any WordPress theme is basically a standard HTML file (or group of files, more likely) and standard CSS file. The HTML file contains template tags that let WordPress know where and how to display it’s information.
So to modify a theme to be skinnier, you need to edit the CSS file for it to change the necessary widths. In some cases it’ll just be a single entry that needs to be changed, and it might need changing in 10 places. It’s very dependent on the theme you start with. Or you can develop a theme from scrath 🙂
I’m not clear on what you meant by ‘out of whack’ – can you be more specific?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Windows Server – Using Permalinks with IIS no apache.macmanx – the variables do not need to be seperated by / characters – that’s only a folder designation. It’s fine to use hyphens, spaces, the letter “s”, or even nothing between those % variables.
at least, it worked for me…
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Free hostingTry http://www.innereyes.com 🙂
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Help with installing on IIS 6Yup, go with that. Unless there is a reason you can’t run Apache on that server (for example, if require the IIS server as well and have only 1 public IP address), definitely install Apache and MySQL and PHP. The most recent versions work fine (yes, I’ve had no trouble with Apache 2, MySQL 5 beta, and PHP 5 on a Windows 2003 server – WordPress work fine).
WAMP is a good idea too, it’s far easier to get running that downloading and installing each piece seperately.