• OK I worked very hard to get rid of all of the errors through the HTML validator. This theme is a seriously tweaked Identification-band-3-column theme. I am still looking for some sort of kitchen-related background for the “sides” and I’ve been trying to hire someone to do a new logo (right hand corner). I do wish the nifty corners were more obvious but I like how they only work on the recipe category.

    Anyway, I would like opinions: https://theweekendchef.exit-23.net/

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  • Great that you cleaned up the majority of the errors, and here are the fixes to the last ones. In XHMTL, tags cannot have capital letters. Change all capital letters in your meta tags in your header.php template file and add a self-closing tag to the end of the meta tags, like this:

    <meta name="description" content="Adventures of a health-minded Chef-wanna-be" />

    The site is still looking fairly clean and good. The rounded corners on the recipes are okay, not noticeable, and maybe not worth the effort unless they are much more noticeable. Going after little details can wear you down.

    Whatever you have in the background and the relationship with the content scrolling over it makes it studder and not scroll nicely at all in Firefox, but scrolls fast in MSIE.

    A minor thing that I would like to see is more spaces between the recipes in the recipe category page. They feel really crowded and I don’t get a clean sense of separate recipes but a long line of text.

    Also, the text in the recipes is crowded against the left and right edges. Add a little padding there so we feel the outside edges of the recipe background.

    Looking good overall, though it does feel a little crowded. You might want to consider going with an elastic three column layout instead of the floated narrow middle, but that’s up to you. It reads fine and the colors are still very ice creamy.

    Thread Starter nmallory

    (@nmallory)

    Doh, thanks for mentioning about the meta tags. I added them last night from a meta generator and didn’t think to check the validation.

    The background, I made “fixed” this morning. I downloaded Firefox last night and ironically, didn’t notice a problem with it until I got to my work PC which has IE this morning.

    The padding in the recipes is something I’ve been trying to work on. The code for the nifty corners screwed up the formatting there and I haven’t been able to figure out how to correct it.

    I’ll look into the spacing too. What I find interesting is that there doesn’t appear to be any real rhyme or reason as to how much space is showing up between the “(more…) and the comments line and then between that and the next post. It has befuddled me.

    Thanks again for your comments!

    There are a couple of good articles in the Codex that might help you with your “befuddling”.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/CSS_Troubleshooting
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Finding_Your_CSS_Styles

    I was wondering, what you thought about alphabatizing the recipes on each recipe-category page? For example you have 17 deserts — what is the order? By posting date. What if it were alphabetical and/or had an alphabetical index – do you have that, or know how to make it so?

    https://theweekendchef.exit-23.net/category/recipes/dessert/

    I’m not sure if this will help but try it:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/22801

    And alphabetical would be much better.

    Thread Starter nmallory

    (@nmallory)

    Wow! Thanks! They’re in alphabetical order now. I’ll have to think about doing an alphabetical index. Not quite sure how to do it at this moment

    Thread Starter nmallory

    (@nmallory)

    Yay, got the headline thing working for indexes!

    Looking great! Keep going!!!!

    ??

    You’ll be teaching and answering questions on this soon!

    Thread Starter nmallory

    (@nmallory)

    You realize that my next challenge will be to limit the home page to 10 posts but archives and categories to 20 or 30…hmmmm…I’d take my laptop on vacation and play with it but it’ll be useless with no internet. ??

    Weekend Chef, I revisted your website and see you continue improving. The alphabetical lists of posts (recipes) within the recipe categories, looks great. I mean Great! Not only did you alphabatize, but you hid the posts so it’s more like an index: alpha by title, with the date, then you click to see the individual recipe. I saw someone say “using WP more like a database than a blog” of course it was always a database and it is still a blog, I like how you combined the ideas because your home page is sorted by most-recent but the appropriate categories are alphabetical.

    Seeing yours, I think I’ll be able to accomplish the same thing on my nascent blog and lyrics-archive. I just won’t get there as quickly or as designerly as you. Nice work. If you uncover techniques and tips please keep posting here to help others.

    Thread Starter nmallory

    (@nmallory)

    OK I got the cat pages to list all titles, not just the default. ?? I’m getting the hang of this.

    My next challenge will be to design my own theme for my personal blog (https://nmallory.exit-23.net). I’m thinking 3 columns, 1 image floating over the middle menu column… hmmmm….

    Also, I’ve mostly finished my diet blog’s design (https://www.nothingtastesasgood.com).

    Thanks so much for the suggestions and advice! Please feel free to offer constructive criticism anytime. ??

    Oh, and tips and tricks for the alphabetical, headline only, all-posts listed category pages can be found here.

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