daviddecristoforo

Thanx. I hope i was nor unclear on my question. What I want is a link on each post so that the reader can click in it to e-mail it to someone else, not to me. as in this blog where there is a small envelope icon at the bottom of each post.

Thanx Again

DD

Hey, don’t feel bad. I recently went through the same thing. These guys are really helpful and mostly, very good about not making us feel too much like morons!! DON’T use Safari!!!! The WordPress admin panel does not work worth squat in Safari. Use Firefox.

You need to get familiar with some basic stuff. Your hosting service should have information on transferring files. If you are lucky, they will even have an FTP client available to you as part of your package. Check your online control panel to see. If not you will need an FTP app (for the Mac, Transmit is one of the best). And as “moshu” suggests, read the documentation.

Good Luck

DD

Well this is seriously “cheating” and uses frames which are completly out of favor but FWIW here it is. Create an HTML page using two frames, a narrow fixed width frame on the left and a “fluid” main frame. Use the main frame to display index.php and the left frame for stuff like your google ads and links. I tried this and it works very well. I abandoned it when I found the 3 col. “vesuvius” template which I now use.

DD

Ok, I changed:
nav li ol
and
nav li ol a
to:
nav ol li
and
nav ol li a

That did not seem to have any effect (nor did I really expect it to!). However, I still can’t find a specific way to eliminate the extra line break. I did look at the tutorials but I did not find the answer nor did a Google search help. The list of catagories does not have any space between the entries. But the recent posts list does. this is driving me nuts! I’m sure I am missing something very simple here but, like i said, I’m a dummy…..

DD

I have:

#nav li ol{
font: normal normal 80% ‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif;
letter-spacing: 0.1em;
padding-left: 15px;
margin-top: -10px;
padding-bottom: 2px; /*border-bottom: dotted 1px #ccc;*/
}
#nav li ol a{
color: #444444;
font: normal normal 90% Arial, Verdana, Helvetica sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 0em;
text-decoration: none;
}

but as you can see, there is no “line height” attribute and as I am a CSS “dummy”, I do not know exactly how to add one. Nor do I find any specific instruction in any of the tutorials. I have tried several things that “seemed logical” but to no avail. If someone could offer a specific syntax, I would fall to my knees in appreciation. I’m flying by the seat of my pants here!

Thanx
DD

The problem is that if I change the padding value, it simply creates more space between all of the lines of text. What I need is to add more space between the recent post list entries themselves or add bullets to the list which I currently do not have. Can you advise as to how to insert bullets?

Thanx Again

DD

Cool. Thanx. I don’t mean to seem “daft” but will that also increase the space between the wrapped lines of text? If so it won’t work because I just need more space between each listing.
DD

Thought it might be time to bump this question….anyone?

DD

So would it be a correct assumption that I should leave the link “as is” until newer versions of web browsers are released that support the “feed” protocol and then change the link to include the “feed:” prefix? (At this time all of my browsers return an error when the “feed:” prefix is used.)

Thanx
DD

It would seem that having the RSS link is simply a way to made the URL appear in the site visitor’s location “field” from where he or she can copy it to paste into their news reader. What I would really like if for this to happen automatically when the person clicks the link. But maybe it’s too soon for that? Have to wait until the technology evolves a bit more?

Anyway, thanx again to everyone for their help. I got the link working, the image in place and all seems good….

DD

Cool. I’ll play around with it some more. As to the image tag, that’s pretty much what I “figured” but it’s nice to be sure.

Thanx Again
DD

One more question? What I have is this:

Subscribe
RSS
Comments RSS

What I would like to do is replace the 1st “RSS” with a “gereric” RSS link image. I have the GIF image uploaded to my images dir.

DD

According to “macmanx” it should:

“Assuming for feed is linked to https://www.domain.com/feed/, you can change the link to feed:https://www.domain.com/feed/ . This new link is supposed to launch the reader’s default new reader and either subscribe them to the feed or check it for updates.”

DD

Thanx. Off to the css file then. Now, here’s where I reveal my ignorance. What exactly does this link do? How does clicking on it subscribe the “clickor” to my RSS feed?

Thanx
Again
DD

That took care of part of the problem. The link looks like this:

Subscribe
RSS
Comments RSS

If you hover over either the “RSS” on the 1st line or the “RSS” after the word “comments”
the cursor becomes a question mark, even tho when you click the link seems to work.

Thanx

DD