jayjerome

never mind… fixed it… had to reset my java-script filter… now it’s back…

no recent plug-ins
what necessary files do you mean?

thanks for the help — got my ‘static’ links up and running.

sorry, moshu… next time I’ll use the backticks…

Hummm — above I posted the code for the links, and they became actual links!!

Here’s the code, this time in ‘text’ (using [ ] instad of backticks.

[div class=”static-navi”]
[ul]
[li][a href=””]link 1[/a][/li]
[li][a href=””]link 2[/a][/li]
[li][a href=””]link 3[/a][/li]
[/ul]
[/div]

thanks for all the replies… I appreciate the help.

Yes, that worked, thanks for the tip!! You can chose numerous font sizes and styles. Much easier on my eyes now.

But I’d still like to know if I can save a word document as a plain text file and cut and copy it to the WordPress text editor without transferring ‘unfriendly’ code.

Anybody know?

OK, I downloaded and installed the trial version of editplus2, and it does have a spell checker and a lot of fancy do-dads, including a formatting tool bar to insert HTML tags —

BUT it has one major disadvantage: the screen fonts are way too small, mostly 9 pt, and there’s no way to zoom in to prevent eye strain… and you know what they say: small font equals small… well, we’ll go into that another time.

Again, can I use Microsoft Word for the initial draft, save it as text only, then either copy it directly to the WordPress text editor, or intermediately copy it to EditPlus if I want to quick format in HTML and then drop it into WordPress?

Will that strip out the superfluous ‘unfriendly’ html web code?

Thanks, to both of you!!!

Doodlebee, I used your code, and it worked! I’ll have to fiddle with the dimensions a bit in my ‘sandbox’ but other than that, it looks good!

Yosemite, you’re correct, I did copy that post from Word; I thought I could work around the WordPress HTML editor to get better formatting (colored text, etc) and for spell checking. Any other HTML editors I can use to format the post that way? Or can I save the Word file as text only, to continue to use the spell checker, and paste it in after? Or do I have to retype the two posts directly into the WordPress editor?

And that second style.css info — I may have inadvertantly uploaded it from my ‘sandbox’ when I was playing around with the header format. I’ll uninstall and reinstall the theme to start fresh before I make any more changes to it.

Again, thanks your help.

Assuming I stop spinning like a wobbly top and get a semblence of ‘bloggin’ equilibrium, what catagory of themes do you recommend I investigate next? (hope you’re not going to say ‘write your own’)

As an obvious ‘novice’ at this, I’m not sure what the reference to ‘K.clone’ means (I believe that Kubrick was one of the original WordPress Themes); should I not be using the Mesozoic theme? Am I transgressing some ethical boundry or other?

clarification:

I know where the header graphic is in the theme IMAGE folder, but I don’t know where the references to it are in the theme file(s) that call it up on the blog page…

Ah… (lightbulb!) Do I replace that graphic image with my own, and name it the same as the original?

Moshu—

I haven’t felt this inept since I failed to qualify for my first Cub Scout merit badge.
I looked thru every file in the theme, including header.php and style.css – and could not locate any reference to that header.jpg.

Or should I be looking for something without a jpg-extension? And where should I be looking?
And if I locate it, what do I do with it to get my blog title and tagline to show?

That’s a lot of ‘ands.’ Actually, I’d prefer to just replace the graphic header with one of my own design – so it has some individuality, like, crosscultural.transycan.net, and not just another a cookie-cutter blog—

Any step-by-steps you can provide will be thoroughly appreciated.

no readme.txt provided.
Any suggestions what HTML syntax I’m looking for?

HandySolo, Mesozoic, which came out recently, is the number one downloaded WordPress theme (over 700 downloads).

My blogsite is jayjerome.com. My weblog title is supposed to be “Jay’s Cafe.”

I looked at the header.php file, but sad to say, I’m not savvy enough to know what I’m looking for. Here’s the HTML (I hope it ok to post it here); I’d appreciate it if someone could point out what I have to do to remedy the problem.

from header.php:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head profile="https://gmpg.org/xfn/11"&gt;
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php get_bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<a></a>
<div id="page">
<div id="header">
</div>
<hr />