• Hi there! I used the Mars-Spirit theme for my website but I have a question about this annoying thing it does on the comments pages and the Pages pages…there’s this empty space that appears just below the title bar and just above the entry. It’s the same size as my title bar but I can’t find out why it’s being put there or where to fix it. If you’d like to see what it does just go to https://www.ninjadoll.net and click on any comment to see what the page does.

    Any help would be appreciate, I’m new to this whole css thing. I’m such an html baby :/

    Thanks much!

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  • I see the spacing you are talking about, which is usually a sign of a DIV or some tag left open, but I ran a validation on your site and you have bigger problems. I don’t know what happened, but it appears that your doctype, a very critical component, is missing, which causes a lot of other problems. And you have this set in frames, which is….oh, how can I be nice about this…I can’t…SUCKS! Totally inappropriate usage and bad form. I know you are knew to this, and I’m not familiar with the theme you are using, but if they are using frames, I’d drop their sorry buns and switch to another theme immediately.

    It’s not that frames are “bad” but for your usage, they are complicated and cause more problems than you really want.

    First, fix the validation issue, and then seriously reconsider the framing biz, so to speak…..ah wait. Luckily, I have a few minutes to look into this more seriously.

    The site, ninjadoll, is a redirect from frames to https://www.cydco.com/nd/ndblognew which is the actual site of your blog. The frameset didn’t make a clean redirect, so the frame source code stayed in the browser even though the redirected site shows cydco.com site. I recommend you use the .htaccess file to change the redirect information to your new blog site instead of the frame. Messy. You can find a lot of information about Apache rewrite and redirects and htaccess on the web so do a search to fix this, or ask the …trying not to say unkind things…person who did this for you in the first place to clean it up.

    Okay, now that I have access to your “real” site, we can fix the problem better. But you just got a taste of the mess that frames can make.

    This is the validation report you need to concentrate your energy on and it has a few things you need to clean up. Read through each and see if you can fix them, and you will probably fix your problem at the same time.

    I also recommend that you spend some time in the very helpful WordPress Codex documenation site at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/ especially with:

    WordPress CSS Information and Techniques
    WordPress Blog Design and Layout
    Using WordPress Themes
    WordPress Lessons
    Codex – CSS Fixing Browser Bugs
    Codex – CSS Troubleshooting

    Thread Starter ninjadoll

    (@ninjadoll)

    Hrm. I don’t use frames on this site at all except what I transfered over for one of the pages. I guess the frames are a holdover from the redirecting site?

    Thank you very much for your time, I’m looking at all the resources you were kind enough to link for me!

    Wish me luck — I will conquer this language, merde!

    Thread Starter ninjadoll

    (@ninjadoll)

    Wow, I just looked at the validation you ran…this theme is right out of the zip file and it’s that messy? I may try to find myself a more complete theme :/

    The isn’t really that bad as far as I can see – I’ve seen infinitely worse, and this is not a crisis really. Sure you have validation errors, but nothing that can be fixed. Frr whatever reason, you have frames, which you need find in your code and remove unless it’s part of the theme.

    https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.cydco.com/nd/ndblognew/

    Things like <center> require a closed tag to be valid. The theme itself seems to be ok, but you’ve made some changes that are causing the page to be invalid – you’ve got a few open divs that need closing, and floating unordered list tag.

    With regards to comments, the first two errors mean that you have the content defined twice – you have them set as id, so you cannot use that same css call twice. Unless you define it as a class. id’s are for individual elements that will be used only once, class is for elements that will use the same call more than once in a page. Get rid of the second call.

    43: <div id="content">
    44: <!-- end header -->
    45: <div id="content" class="widecolumn">

    Is your code – so note you have content starting in your header and in your index.php. Remove line 43 and replace it with line 45.

    These are very minor errors that can be resolved with a bit of work.

    I’ve not seen a WP theme that uses tables in calenders and has validated. I could be wrong, but that always seems to through up in the validation.

    For the frames side of things, this is your code:

    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>ninjadoll.net</TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <FRAMESET ROWS="100%,*" FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0>
    <FRAME NAME="content" SRC="https://www.cydco.com/nd/ndblognew" marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 noresize scrolling=auto>
    <NOFRAMES>
    <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <META http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://www.cydco.com/nd/ndblognew">
    </NOFRAMES>
    </FRAMESET>

    </HTML>

    Remove this. I’d go in more detail but I have to go.

    Good luck

    Where can I download this theme? Will it work with WP 1.5? 2.0?

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