Help Me Please…

1. The white line appears to be part of the background image, which is repeating:
#content {margin:0; padding:0px 0 0 0; width: 555px; float:left; background-image:url('images/dapithapon_maincontentbg.gif');background-repeat:repeat; background-position:0px 0px; text-align:center;}

Try changing ‘background-repeat:repeat’ to ‘background-repeat:no-repeat’.

2. I can’t reproduce this.

A good place to start would be to get your code to validate; first your XHTML and then your CSS.

incidentally, david – when someone helps you with a post – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/69298 it’s customary around here to not only post back with a “thanks for the help” but to mark the topic “resolved” so that anyone else who comes along will A) know that you received the help you needed and it was accurate to solving your issue and B) will know not to bother continuing to offer help, since you already got your solution.

i’m glad i could help, as i see the header’s working on your site now… but sometimes common courtesy gets lost around here…

danwillis – thank you so much for the information. I kept editing the wrong graphic as I have one labels contentbg and one labeled maincontentbg. I appreciate your help

Laddelaluna – I had just finished my editor and am still working on it as it’s not completely done so I had yet to go publish the THANK YOU when I posted this. So, thanks for the help, I do appreciate it and have completed my header now. Also, I agree that common courtesy is lost in a lot places, however, please give some people a chance to do so. I just found the answer about an hour ago. I will try to post thank yous sooner next time. If you check my post history, I have never passed on giving thanks to those who have helped me.

You’re welcome, David.

You may want to check your site in some browsers other than IE – I use Firefox, and the ‘wrapper’ div is not centered.

In your CSS, try changing the margin settings for #wrapper from

margin:0px 0px 0px 12px;

to

margin:0 auto;

Thanks David – It just seemed odd to me that you’d start on something like this without having finished the other first… but again, I am glad I could help, and thanks for the appreciation ??

Thanks Danwillis. I have corrected that. I think a need a CSS for dummies book – this stuff confuses me. ?? I know there are a few things like the footer is separted from the body, but I plan on updating it constantly until it’s prefect. Tons of trial and error. LOL

Ladydelaluna – I am a total multitasker especially if I don’t know what I’m doing. That way I can work on one thing until I get wore out and switch back and forth so I don’t get fedup with it. I’m also currently working on some HTML on my site – which is a lot easier.

Matter-of-fact, I have another question. As you can tell, I’m trying to make my blog.definingdavid.com look just like definingdavid.com. I have a long way to go. Is there a way to just basically add the CSS code to show my posts and stuff in the middle of my actual blog coding so that it looks exactly alike and just works as another page?

“Is there a way to just basically add the CSS code to show my posts and stuff in the middle of my actual blog coding so that it looks exactly alike and just works as another page?”

Not without having to do it every single time… that would be stinky. Your best bet is to try to grab it from the original site’s CSS file, and figure out how/where to incorporate it into your theme css file.

That’s what I thought. It’s complicated. I’m to lazy to do this. LOL ??

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What about just making wordpress be the content management system for your site, and have it installed in the root directory, using pages for your main site stuff and posts for the blog stuff?

I’ve got WP as a CMS on my site https://www.anubismarketing.com (though i’m not using the “blogging” part of it) and it works very well as a total-site-building-magical-thing. ??

Well I had my site designed for me and paid a designer because I am not good at doing anything like that. However, it wasn’t until after the site was complete that I had to install a blogging platform and the designer nor myself have no idea how to use CSS or whatever it is the designs of WordPress are completed in. (Does that make sense). Also, nice site – that entire thing is completed in WordPress?

thanks – yep the whole thing is done with wordpress – not a single thing (except some of my client sites) done without it. (and i’ve made a conscious decision to use WP on my client sites from this point forward whenever possible!)

i’m suprised your designer didn’t use CSS to code your original site… oye – the whole thing is tables! eek.

i wish i knew more i could tell you on how to integrate the two better… without digging deeper into it all. it’s basically just the CSS you need to grasp for wordpress at this point though… so don’t get discouraged just yet… ??

Well I actually just figured out how to get my footer to connect to my main body. YIPPEE!!! ?? It seems that CSS (from what I have seen so far) is pretty staright forward of repeating or not repeating graphics and then setting the margins, etc. Hopefully I will gradually learn more and more.

you’ll get it, don’t worry.

especially for what you’re trying to do, which is basically add image backgrounds for certain sections, and set your fonts.

and once you get it for your wordpress site, you can maybe redo your main site to get rid of all those tables! ??

So are tables that bad? I’m new to this whole thing? What are the pros and cons of tables vs css?

tables = larger file sizes for pages which = slower load time which = search engines “moving on” which = lower levels of optimization for the search engines which = less chance of your site being spidered well.

make sense? lol

tables were originally designed to sort tabular data. with the advent of CSS, tables are sort of “archaic” for lack of a better word. sure, they work, for now, but it’s kind of like trying to find an 8-track player these days… you know?

CSS and external style sheets just make for clean code and smaller file sizes – two things which are pretty important if you ask me. ??