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Using ems is the most reliable method for sizing fonts, keywords are the worst, and pixels don’t resize in IE . the css-d article points to Richard Rutters article, which IMHO is the best example of font-sizing using ems http://clagnut.com/blog/348/

The problem you are having is you have a number of small elements which are not closed (missing </small>), and your css includes:
small {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 1.1em; <-- increases font size
line-height: 1.4em;
}

So, every time your code hits a small element it increases the font size.

I don’t know what plugins won’t work with Dreamhost, but when trying out new plugins just search for fopen() in the code and check if they try opening remote files… if so, you will know that it won’t work.

curl works and if you’re after a delicous plugin this one looks like a good choice:

http://linuxbrit.co.uk/blog/2004/10/01/wordpress-delicious-plugin-10/

Also looks like a plugin manager using curl is a good project for someone to write =)

A link to the site you want to compare the screengrab to would be helpful.

CSS is what controls the how your web site looks, not PHP. IE5 for the mac has a number of problems rendering modern designs, and unless you have a lot of users in your target audience using it, you are probably best to not worry about it…. unless you want a crash course in CSS. I recommend you google for positioniseverything and css-d as a couple of places to get started.

your server (dreamhost?) doesn’t allow fopen() to open remote urls, so you will probably need to find something that uses curl instead.

it looks like your permalink is not being parsed properly. Hover over the link and check your status bar – you’ll see what I mean – %post-id% is in the url.

Perhaps a the link title is metadata held by the target of the link… Should be easy enough to achieve with wp’s postmeta table. You then get the best of both worlds: an auto link based on natural language and additional link scent in the title attribute provided by metadata from the target.

I also note that live-comment-preview.php generates a php error that prevents the script from working. Comment out line 24:$livePreviewDivAdded == false; (evaluates to false by default) and it works fine.

you’ll need to edit live-comment-preview.php, and the comment form for your theme — probably called comments.php.

In comments.php add the code for your counter… it can be code of your choosing so long as it has an id:

word count <span id="wordcount">n/a</span>

In live-comment-preview.php add the following functions just above the event listener (about line 144) :

function initWordCount() {
if(!document.getElementById)
return false;

var cmnt = document.getElementById('comment');
var cnt = document.getElementById('wordcount');


if ( cnt && cmnt)
cmnt.onkeyup = function() {
cnt.innerHTML = numWords(this.value);
}
}


function numWords(string)
{
string = string + ' ';
string = string.replace(/^[^A-Za-z0-9]+/gi, "");
string = string.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9]+/gi, " ");
var items = string.split(" ");
return items.length -1;
}


add an event listener (about line 184):
addEvent(window, "load", initWordCount);

This is untested, but it should work…