Pardon the dust and saw noise
Posted on March 4, 2006
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Might be a little flaky here for the rest of the weekend. Due to my fearless nature, I’m hacking a new theme into place live. Heh. Originally I was doing it on my local wampserver installation, but had some issues with some of my plugins functioning in that environment so… here we are.
It started out life as the Contempt theme and I’m just tweaking header graphic, colors and such. Granted, colors aren’t a strong suit of mine… so feel free to holler if something is just too hideous for words.
[update]
In general, I’m pretty happy with it. IE7beta seems to puke on the banner stuff up top so still trying to figure out why I get a big white box there… IE6 does well, in fact it handles the page menu below the banner better than Opera and Firefox (!). Guess I need to look at that too. But in general, we’re up and we’re validated and reasonably happy with what it became.
Phase 2 of this, someday in the distant future, will involve giving it some “liquid” aspects… I’m not overly enamored of fixed width layout.
[update 2]
Think I got the weird page menu thing sorted out. While making this thing validate (and it does!) I had to wrap the “list” of pages (implemented as a styled list) in an unordered list tag set. Which promptly threw off FF and Opera rendering. Added a bit of style lovin’ to the CSS for that guy and I think I’m in decent shape there. IE6 remains happy. Even looks decent in safari, as far as I can tell.
IE7beta remains aloof and sometimes works…
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This is not a comment per se, but rather a plea for help. I see that you have WP installed locally and working. I have tried to do this and was successful except for one thing - permalinks. They don’t work locally. WP index comes up fine, but when I click on any link )post or page), I get the url cannot be found. I’ve search the WP forums for ideas. I’ve changed the httpd.conf file per one suggestion. I’ve alse tried changing the .htaccess file. However, neither of these has helped. I was just curious if you had any insight.
Thanks, jim
Hi Jim,
On my local install (wampserver running on XP Pro) I have permalinks working just fine. Funny thing is, at one point I HAD to add index.php to the permalink structure to make it work, but somewhere along the line I was able to drop that.
Probably not as helpful as you were hoping…
Read your post on the WP support forum about having no page rank. Going by the firefox page rank plugin you are at 5 which is pretty good I would say
Wow, the new theme looks great!