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Good point. WP actually automatically makes all the pictures that size. But you’re right that some of the originals are really big. I have to look into that and fix it.

This is bizarre. All my problems with the default template have just myteriously vanished. I switched to the Classic template for a few hours, which worked properly. Now, I just switched back to the Default one, and it’s perfect.

I don’t know what happened, but I’m happy it’s okay now.

Tomorrow, I’ll make the images smaller and also omit some of them.

The day after, I’ll explain baseball to you. ??

Thanks for the help, moshu.

Most of my viewers are rural folk, on dial up. Page speed load is important to me. Use this:
https://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=https://blog.fontanafirm.com

and you’ll have a good idea where the “fat” is.

I also use:
https://rephrase.net/miscellany/05/perpage.phps

which gives pretty fine grain posts per page control.

For posts per page you can also use:
https://mattread.com/archives/2006/01/custom-query-string-27/
which has a nice admin interface – no file editing ??

Best method is links I would think. I usually use them in teh sigs within the forums I post at. They got picked up a lot by search engines.

Heh heh heh

Nice buns => https://fontanafirm.com/fontanablog/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/hamburger4.bmp

Size 3,686,454 bytes.

I had a church choir who wanted to place a 180meg MP3 on their home page, have it load first before any of the page loaded, and force the visitor to take it. They couldn’t understand why it was an issue.

Hi Moshu,

what sort of hat do you have? ;-)))

https://www.baseballeurope.com/

Hi DomFontana,

As to the pictures, the problem can be part of resizing processes and the software you use. Try to resize one step a time: change picture dpi size (300 pixels/inch —> 72 pixels/inch) and save. Then change picture dimensional size (800—>200 pixels) and save. Open again and use a good compression which will however not make the photo too pixellated, and save. Your hamburger pics could be as small as a few bytes.

Look here:

https://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8729/hamburger88jq.jpg

Same dimensions in this case, but now only 12967 bytes large (10 times smaller!).

Oh, and never ever use .bmp files on the net, they are as large as tiff files! ??

The best software for good compression is Fireworks, better yet than Adobe Photoshop.

Thanks everyone for all the links and suggestions. I normally use Adobe Photoshop, but I hadn’t used it yet on the pictures. But I will use it to downsize the pictures.

Now, here is the latest status with the blog. I now have just one post per page displayed. Almost all pages are fine, except for a few, which are still out of alignment.

If anyone is interested, take a look at the first page, which is fine, and then go to the previous post, and that page is still out of alignment.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks for all the help.

It’s just bad code. Those posts are still full of misplaced center tags.

moshu,

I took out all the center tags and it didn’t fix the problem. I’m not certain, but I had installed some plug-ins and then the problem started. After things seemed to be okay, I put the center tags back in the post titles. I think 12 of the pages are good and only 3 are still out of sync.

Do you think the center tags are only affecting those 3 pages?

Well, I didn’t check all your posts. When I clicked on the Prev. link and went to that post – I saw it’s borked. Every time when I see something like that, first thing is to click on the validation tool in FF. One of the errors – center tag in the wrong place. I didn’t say the tag itself, I said misplaced tag. And I still say it.

Alltogether I don’t see why are you so obsessed about centering titles. Nobody gives a damn whether they are centered or not but obviously they give you a lot of headache…

moshu,

A few points:

1) I don’t think it’s obvious that the centering of the titles is what’s causing the problem. I deleted all the center tags from all the titles and every page was still out of alignment. If it were the center tags causing the problems, then why were the pages still out of alignment even after I deleted those tags?

2) I put all the center tags back in the titles and 12 of the 15 pages are now fine. If the center title tags were causing the problems, then how come all 15 pages are not misaligned?

3) I did run a validation tool and it produced incorrect results. It stated in many instances that I had neglected to put in a closing tag >, yet when I checked the code, the closing tag was there. I asked for an explanation about that earlier in this topic, but no one responded.

4) Just for the record, are center tags allowed in post titles or not?

5) If there are any problems with the code, they were created by WP and not by me. I didn’t alter any of the code. I’m just writing the posts. If after I save a post, WP writes bad code that makes the page misaligned, that is a problem with the program and is not due to user error.

6) I’m simply trying to find out how to correct this annoying problem that WP has created, but somehow feel as if I am being blamed for causing the misalignment problem.

7) I have received some very friendly and helpful advice and suggestions from many of the members here, which I am thankful for and very appreciative of. But many of those suggestions were on graphics size and speeding up the blog.

8) But after all is said and done, I still haven’t gotten a member of the support staff here to help me fix the problem that I feel was caused solely as a result of WP. I realize it’s a Beta version, but it’s an extremely buggy program and is causing me much frustration.

9) I’m reading all the help files and docs, doing the troubleshooting, and then reporting my results here, but the response from the support staff has not really been helpful.

It’s like the old joke where you ask someone if they know what time it is and they say YES, and walk away. Obviously, you’re not really aksing them if they know the time, but you’re asking them to tell you the time.

It’s the same thing here. To get a response from the support staff that says my posts are still full of misplaced center tags doesn’t really help me. Tell me exactly which center tags are causing the problem. I checked the center tags and I don’t see the problem. And as I said, if the center tags are misplaced, it’s because WP misplaced them and not me.

10) I do understand and appreciate that the support staff here volunteers their time here and that WP is free. But if the support staff isn’t going to help you, then what’s the point? I feel as if I’ve been on my own here since I posted about the problem. The funny thing is it’s probably a very simple thing to fix for someone who is an expert with WP.

Thanks for your time.

Hi DomFontana,

why don’t you try switching your theme and see whether all of those errors surface again?

Also, what editor have you been using to write your posts with? Have you made corrections while writing? Have you set the centering with that editor manually?

DF,
No need to get angry at the “staff” ??
My statement about misplaced tags was based solely on what the validation result page says:

1. Frontpage:
Error Line 66, column 176: document type does not allow element “center” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag .
2. Second post:
Error Line 66 column 190: document type does not allow element “center” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag.
and so on…
How would you call it other than “misplacement”?
Now, you have the right to consider the validator’s result “incorrect” but in that case, I am afraid, we are loosing common ground here ??

On a more general note.
If the obvious errors are corrected it is much easier the detect what’s causing a problem that doesn’t go away even after having a valid page.
Any kind of HMTL tag is not really OK in the Title field: since the anchor title (=what you see when hover over the permalinks/post title) is generated based on what is in that field, the html tags will appear in the “tooltips” not rendered. Unfortunately, that’s how it works, I can’t do anything about it.
Seemingly you are using the Rich Text Editor (also known as RTE or TinyMC or WYSIWYG editor) AND putting your own code into it. That’s a deadly combination. If you just type into the RTE – it might work. As soon as you touch the code, it becomes a nightmare.
[My personal opinion is, the biggest mistake in WP’s development was the introducing of the wysiwyg editor which creates far more problems than it solves.]

Yes, the wysiwyg animal ?? tends to “correct” your code, putting totally invalid things (= non-existent tags!) in your posts. Like in the post about Sir/Madame, line 98 this <div />.
I’d try to remove it and see if it works.
And as a side note: you have a lot of inline style in your posts, like paragraph tag align:left – may I ask why? By default, the <p> should be left aligned…

Hi moshu,

I believe it’s a combo of a theme which doesn’t give the correct doctype and doesn’t properly close the meta’s, and the furious “correction” the WYSIWYG editor makes unasked for.

I agree with that this WYSIWYG is a horror, as it already malfunctions gravely if you do not input code yourself, just correct stuff you want differently in a post.

Is there a bugreport for that editor as a whole? Or does anyone know whether there are plans to tame it?

Sidenote – in the Options -> Writing is a checkbox to disable the WYSIWYG’s desire to “correct” code. Uncheck it.