danf

he is doing it in lots of threads, I’m sure he’ll be banned soon.

RE your site, I like it, but the footer doesn’t line up with the body by about 2px. (in FF3)

I would probably not have made the header so tall for myself, but it looks fine.

If you’re using photoshop, use save for web & devices (ctrl/cmd+shift+alt+S) instead of save as. I tend to use jpeg progressive at 80% quality, your images will load much faster.

And you might consider using Impact for your title, instead of an image. Most people have impact, and can default to something similar.

Again, it will help faster loads.

In the admin panel, under the manage section, there are import and export options.

some people do seem like douches though, I agree. I hate people who know a little bit about something and think it makes them better than those who are just starting out. People need a bit of respect for the people who taught them what they know, and need to learn to follow in their footsteps and pass the knowledge on in the same way.

So you know about php/apache etc, you aren’t special, its not some secret society, get of your high horse and help others to learn, like others helped you.
And don’t forget, even if you are ‘self-taught’ from books or websites… some kind person chose to share their knowledge with you by writing those sites/books.

There’s no uniformity, it just feels like it was spat out by a bad cms into tables.

Look into grid based layouts and how to use spacing. Apart from the outside of the content wrapper, there’s almost no negative space, which makes it feel overly-packed and claustrophobic.

Some good article on this:
https://www.subtraction.com/archives/2004/1231_grid_computi.php
https://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/2006/12/gridding_the_960/
https://www.alistapart.com/articles/settingtypeontheweb
https://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm

And try not to be defensive when people criticize your work.
The fact that grey text on a dark background is uncomfortable to read, is not a personal affront to you, its just something that has been observed by designers to be true. It tends to work better in print because you can use larger fonts and natural light seems to help, but on a computer screen, dark text on a dark background is very difficult to pull off. I would only use it in situations where you are trying to de-emphasize some text, i.e. if you don’t want the text to be the main focus.

pretty sure I’ve seen that bird before… be careful what assets you use, and always read the licensing agreements.

The background takes a long time to load… and the design definitely looks better without it.

it’s hard to make the color of puke look good.

Also, this might be useful: https://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm

Are you sure you’ve set up a sub-domain and not just a folder within your current domain? A sub domain has to be registered with your hosting providers domain name servers, which can take some time to propagate.

Is that file definitely on your server and in the right place?

The easiest way to delete all the installation files is if you have shell access, then you can just do an rm -rf on the whole thing.

If you don’t have shell access, your ftp client should let you delete the files. If you get permission errors where you think there shouldn’t be, you’ll have to contact your hosting company.

Firefox can’t find the server at blog.starscapetheme.com.

do you mean this:
<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>

maybe try this:
https://wpcandy.com/articles/tutorials/the-wordpress-help-sheet.html

how does unzipping/un-tarring imply that you need php/mysql?

No standard has yet emerged as ‘best’.
Wordpress offers all the versions you mentioned, out of the box, so I would just stick with it. (I do just stick with it)

And I wouldn’t call putting ads in a feed ‘best practice’