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Thanks for the advice dgilmour. If I went that route would I still have to create some sort of custom blog page within the site to display that posts? Also, will doing the export/import retain all the categories associated with each post?

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Well, I am now running php 5, but still no luck! However, the ‘Cookie Test’ page is now failing across all my browsers even though I have them enabled in all my browsers and I have “Use CAPTCHA without PHP session” enabled. I am really confused now b/c the cookie test worked earlier…

Yeah, that was the only other blatant thing I could see that might be causing it. I will see if they can upgrade it. Thanks so much for your fast reply Mike! I really appreciate it! I will let you know how it goes.

Your welcome! You should go ahead and mark this thread as resolved now!

I am not sure what part of that css is dealing with the navigation you are talking about. Is the template you are editing being used on your live site?

I need to see the html from the page you are working with as well in order to suggest actual lines to change. Your site you have linked also appears to have 2 navigation sections so I am not sure which one you are trying to get drop downs with.

If your having that much trouble just switch to the twentyten theme and look at the code it renders to wrap your head around how its css interacts with the html nav layout. After you understand how it works it should be alot easier to modify it to your templates needs.

In any case this is half the fun of doing web development is trial and error until you get your results!

It’s kind of hard to say what the cause is without being able to see the site or any code or anything. If the navigation stuff (the ul’s/li’s) are in place and not missing any of these (<, >, ‘, “) then the most likely issue is something related to css.

I believe you are using twentyten’s css for the menu? If so, its most likely something in there that needs to be tweaked. Most likely something with the width, height, margin, or padding. Try viewing the source of the page as well to ensure everything is being rendered in html properly.

Thats fine. You can still do it the first way I said then. Just setup your hardcoded nav roughly the way wordpress’s twentyten theme renders it. Here is a snip I whipped up to get you started. Just make sure you have twentyten’s nav css!

<div id="access" role="navigation">
    <div class="menu">
        <ul>
            <li class="#"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
            <li class="#"><a href="#">About</a>
                <ul class='children'>
                    <li><a href="#">Our Culture</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Our Teams</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div><!-- menu -->
</div><!-- Access -->

First off if your trying to do dropdowns you need to do embedded ul’s. Something like this…

<ul>
<li>
    Nav1
    <ul>
        <li>SubNav1</li>
        <li>SubNav2</li>
        <li>SubNav3</li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li>Nav2</li>
<li>Nav3</li>
<li>Nav4</li>

The tricky thing is that if your using twentytens css it is designed around using the actual wordpress menus (as opposed to hardcoded navigation like you have). So you have two options from here

1. Go in and tweak the nav css (from twentyten) so that it uses your div/nav setup
2. Replace your current hardcoded nav with this (taken from twentyten)…

   <div id="access">
       <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>
   </div><!-- #navigation -->

   Then setup an actual menu in the wordpress admin screen

Either way is fine. If you are just wanting to get it up and running just tweak the CSS. Otherwise I would recommend doing the actual menu way.

Removing the padding on the header will made the distance equal to that of the sides of the page.

Change (I think it is around line 389 in the css)

#header {
padding: 30px 0 0 0;
}

To this

#header {
padding: 0px;
}

Let me know if you need help to get it where there is no space at all at the top.

It really depends on how proficient you are with things. I would recommend just looking at the twentyten theme and copying the code and css for the navigation. From there you can tweak it to look how you want.

I am not an expert or even an intermediate user at wordpress, but I have done 2 sites with it now. In both cases I just took free templates and tweaked them HEAVILY to meet my needs.

Feel free to disregard my advice but this is how I have done this kind of work and it has worked pretty well for me thus far.

1. Design and code your site (the homepage) as straight hard coded html/css. This will allow you to work, develop, and tweak the design at will without having to dig through wordpress files.
2. Start a theme on wordpress. You can either find a premade theme that is close and pick it apart or just start your own from scratch. If you start from scratch the info on www.ads-software.com should be enough to get you started.
3. Copypasta! Start copying and pasting your css in and tweak your classes and ids to match the wordpress ways of the rendered html code. Just remember that your code needs to be split up into a template like structure with a header, content, sidebar, and footer section.

Hope this helps! For any other crazy site stuff the functions.php file and custom page templates should be able to handle just about anything. Good luck!

Have you tried removing the special cases to see if it works if you make it act exactly as Solutions

What do you mean by the special cases? If you are talking about the !important that I put in the CSS, that was necessary to get the proper styles since the submenus seemed to always inherit the parents styles.

I think I am actually going to scrap the whole nav and start over for now. If I can’t get it working how I want I will just drop the rounded corners idea and go for a straight nav bar.