exploding-boy

all around it looks very nice…well done!

all around it looks very nice…well done!

Can you not just link to the category feed like so:
a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/?feed=rss&cat=N”
and replace N for the category you want to pull??

To exclude multiple categories i.e. 1,2 and 6, you’ll have to work backwards and include only the categories that you want to show up in your feed.
Add the following to the ROOT index.php before the include to wp-blog-header.php:

if(isset($_GET[‘feed’])) {
$cat=’1 2 6′;
}
change 1,2,6 to the categories you would like to exclude from your feed.

If you add the following to your stylesheet it should do away with the border.
a img {
border: none;
}

I like the color scheme and look of the site, but you have some errors that you may want to clean up:
Validation Results

I created my own for my site ExplodingBoy.

You simply create your image and a style in your stylesheet. Next you will need to add the following to the body of your site.
<!–[if IE]>
<div id=”ifie”>
<img src=”https://www.yourdomain.com/images/yourpicture.gif&#8221; alt=”ATTENTION: Your browser sucks, blah, blah, whatever ya wanna say” usemap=”#noie”/>
<map name=”noie”>

</map>
</div>
<! [endif]–>

I added the following to my stylesheet:
#ifie {
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
right: 0;
top: 0;
}

You have a some errors when validating your site that you also might want to clean up.
Validation Results

I like the overall look of the sites and colors, but the background is a little too busy/overpowering. I would try to tone it down a bit.

yep, unfortunately there are still display problems with that section in FF.

Screenshot of “What I’m Reading” in FF

Victoria, Your site looks good overall, but does take a long while to load. You may want to look at cutting down your load time by sizing down some of youre images, as well making sure your site validates.

Web Page Load Time Analyzer

W3 Validator

Your sidebar doesn’t look too busy to me, It does have some display problems with the “What I’m Reading” section in Firefox.

good looking theme

@victoriae – Thank you very much.

@jalansutera – I considered adding a background image or background color, but continued to come back to the plain white. It might just be my simplistic taste.

@jonimueller – Hmm, I haven’t had anyone else get this error, but I will definetly look into it. Thanks!