Sidebar show is Firefox, but not in IE. Help!

It looks okay in both FF and IE7 from here. But….You have some photos that are wider than your main content column, like in this one: Troy Polamalu Is Back!

It may be that your version of IE isn’t handling the overrun gracefully. Suggest you try either making those photos smaller, or dive into the code and make your content column wider. I’m just guessing, but it might be a start.

Thanks. But how do I make a column wider? I have been blogging for a total of 10 days.

Thanks. But how do I make a column wider? I have been blogging for a total of 10 days.

The easiest way is to choose a different, wider main column theme.

I am by no means a WordPress expert. It’s taken me a long while to get to where I can manipulate the relatively simple stuff. You will need to understand HTML and CSS to do even that. If you have FF, install a plugin called Firebug, and it will help you analyze your website. The width of your main column is set in your CSS style sheet, found here:

Go to Dashboard>Design>Theme Editor>Stylesheet (style.css)

Using Firebug (on your website, not your stylesheet) you can figure out what part of the stylesheet is setting the column widths. If you make the content column wider, you will usually also need to make the entire page wider. If none of what I just said makes sense, join the club! It takes a while, and a real desire to dig in. If you want to be a technocrat, you have to learn the tech.

Easy out – get a different theme with wider columns, or downsize those photos.

Well, that is my next project. I am still mastering typing text. I was afraid to try to tackle adding a new theme.

I know that I need to add a graphic header to my site instead of the generic default theme that WordPress comes with, but I need a VERY SIMPLE way to do that. I need a 2 column theme with a Wide column on the left for my main content, and a narrow column on the right for my blogroll, “about us”, etc. The theme needs to be idiot-proof (since I am a computer idiot), and allow me to simply replace the original graphic with a picture of my own. I really like the default (Kubrick) them. I just need a graphic instead of that bland color block header that comes with it.

Totally understand.

Go then to:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/

And spend some time finding one or more that looks like they might work. Install several and try them out. You can’t really “break” anything by trying, so give several a run.

I decided to use this one as a starting point:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/andrea#post-77

Although I’m using some clever scripts (written by a pro, not me) to load the videos at my site, the look was changed entirely by working with the Theme Editor files.

BTW, is there a way to keep the images that I currently have in my blog, but make them smaller so they aren’t wider than the alloted blog width? Is there an “image control panel” that I can play with until I get the image to the size that works right with the established column width?

BTW, how do I quote someone’s comments in these dialogue sessions? I see that someone quoted me in their response. It has my original comment in a block. How did they do that?

BTW, how do I quote someone’s comments in these dialogue sessions? I see that someone quoted me in their response. It has my original comment in a block. How did they do that?

Copy, Paste, then Mark the text, then use the b-quote button. b-quote means blockquote, and is a standard HTML ‘tag’.

Mark the text, then use the b-quote button.

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Cool!!!!!

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Aw man, you totally messed it up! ??

LOL

is there a way to keep the images that I currently have in my blog, but make them smaller so they aren’t wider than the alloted blog width? Is there an “image control panel” that I can play with until I get the image to the size that works right with the established column width?

Any suggestions for this question?

Not an easy one. I know WordPress has an image uploader, and it might have formatting options, but I’ve never used it. There are also tricky ways to write code that force an image to fit where you put it, but I’m not good enough with HTML to tell you how to do that. Hopefully someone better at that will comment.