charleskrause

Nope. But it started when I did some pretty heavy modification to the Index.php – so I’m wondering if some function isn’t working (like the aforementioned RSS feed update problem) and its reverting the theme.

Could altering the index.php template break the RSS feed production? If so, how? Would creating/adding a specific RSS.php template (like I’ve seen in other themes) fix this?

Do you mean something like is on my front page?

https://memetic-selection.no-ip.info/

That’s not a plugin – just some template hacking.

It is interesting to note that it seems to be related to another problem I have been having.

My RSS feed doesn’t seem to update. Then it updtated, and the theme reverted.

These two factors seem to be associated, but I don’t know which caused which.

I don’t see a link on your name either, and I’m most certainly not logged in as you.

Huh. Not to me it doesn’t – and it used to. I guess what I see and what you see are differnt, because I’m logged in.

Thanks for the update ??

OK. Thanks for the quick response. I’ve been doing some pretty heavy customization of the front page – including multiple, category-based, query loops. I thought maybe I had broken something in my installation, or that someone had accessed my server.

bump :p

Captcha is effective in weeding out spam – unfortunatly, it also weeds out valid comments – i.e. People are less inclined to bother, and Captcha CAN be defeated by a determined attacker (which most causual spam bots are NOT).

I’d second the Akismet vote – although there’s no reason you can’t run SEVERAL anti-spam plugins at once – Captcha, Akismet, etc…

It sounds like you are entering raw HTML into the WYSIWYG editor pane. Is this the case?

If so, you need to go to USERS for your account, and deselect the “Use the visual rich editor when writing” option.

You can change the system fonts in editplus2

On tghe menu bar select Document
-> Permenant Settings
-> General
-> Fonts

Select the element you want to change the font for from the drop down box (I assume you probably want “Default (edit window)”). Chsnge font size and/or style and/or typeface.

Presto – problem solved.

Another point

Do a large website – 50 pages. Code it in tables, hard code the formatting into the HTML

Now have your client change the color scheme and layout.

Now you edit 50 pages.

Do it with CSS

Now have your client change the color scheme and layout.

You edit one file.

Another point.

Yes – a single page can be coded with tables in less file size than it takes to do a <div> structure with CSS. Even though the HTML code is significantly smaller, the CSS more than makes up for the size reduction.

A large website is different. The CSS is shared over multiple pages. The savings in size are on a page by page basis.

E.g.

Case 1:

Web page (table) = 40K (big page)
Web page (div) = 25k (still big page)
CSS = 30k

Net gain with CSS = -5k

Case 2

Web site (tables) = 40K/page x 50 pages = 2Mb
Web site (div) = 25k x 50 pages = 1.25mb
CSS = 30k

In case 2, the savings are 720k

Unless you have really small sites, CSS will win

‘There is no reason why a tabled design couldn’t be separated from content just as well as CSS design.’

Go ahead. Try it. What do you have to do? You have to strip the tags back out of the code to do it. You have to add another, fairly resources intensive step. Try doing that with a massivly popular site like Amazon, or Ebay, and you WILL need to invest in more processing hardware, as opposed to coding the pages with divorced logical description and layout, and offload the formatting on the end-user. No investment required. A little smart application by the WEB DESIGNER, and no expensive HARDWARE upgrades needed.

From your comments, I’m guessing you just don’t understand the resons behind the technology. The technology did not pop unto being because some “geeks” decided it would be “cool” to do. The technology exists for a reason, to perform a needed function, and to enable developments in needed direction.

I’m sorry you feel that there is no need for you to support “non-traditional” devices, because I think that if you are a web-designer as you claim, you’ll shortly be out competed and by those who do.

It seems to me that you are mistaking your personal experience with clients and consumers for the totality of web use out there.

As for CSS emulating tables – again, you don’t understand. CSS isn’t about making DIFFERNT layouts – layouts are dictated by functionality, and there are only so many ways you can arrange a page. CSS is about making the layouts that exist more flexible, efficient, and about splitting logical structure and formatting.

It really doesn’t matter if only 10% of people use “non-traditional devices” – or even 1%. If you don’t think those are signigicant changes in “market share” with several hudred million users, your business is not long for this world.

As for the “it is too expensive to surf with a PDA or phone so I don’t have to support it” argument – how long have you been working with information technologies? Havn’t you been paying attention to the “cost of access” curves? Hell – 10 years ago cell phones were extraordinarily expenisive just for voice. Now, if I shop carefully, I can get unlimited voice trafffic, data, and long distance. Don’t make the mistake of assuming what exists right now will always be the case. You have to project the trends – and connection costs are a pretty steady curve over time spans of decades.

The companies that plan for those changes will basically shut out the ones that notice the trend to late and try to “catch up”.

You seem to be out here trying to “convince” people that the “old ways are best” and this “new fangled” stuff is just a pain-in-the-ass we could all do withought. You may be right – but I suspect that darwinistic market forces will prove you wrong – and business-wise at least, you’ll have to adapt or die.

Good luck.

Well – you can get editplus2 which is a text editor with a spell checker.

You can get a number of “offline blogging clients” which have spell checkers and interface with WordPress.

You can get the Spellbound plugin for Firefox if you’re using that browser, and spell check the text you enter into forms.

If you wanted to use word, you wouldn’t even have to save it – just cut and paste the text into the form – Windows is smart enough to paste it as plain text.

It’s very hard to answer without more information.

It sounds like it is most likely a CSS problem.

However, what the problem is, and how it might be fixed, is almost impossible to tell without knowing the theme you’re using, how the pictures are embedded, etc.

What it sounds like is that the pictures have “stretched” the sidebar too wide, and the sidebar has “squished” out the bottom.