joedan

The long empty space at the bottom is as meaningless as it was a month ago… ==> https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/54082?replies=22

I agree… which make it really strange to me that people are still talking about it.

Thanks for the comments,

Agreed… the “search” button is a mismatch… that’s what happens when the site designer forgets to make the button and then goes on vacation for two weeks and we can’t wait to launch the site for that one button.

As to the bottom “white space”, I’ve already argued that to death. Only tech geeks care about such things. 99% of the world wouldn’t even know what you’re talking about.

The large photo is meant to be background… which is why its black and white and not in color. Usually the “news” posts have their own thumbnail photos displayed.

The style sheet is separate… however there are a couple of styles that are in the header template while we’re tweaking. It’s easier to serve them up with the page so we can see changes immediately instead of doing a deep refresh to grab a new style sheet. Once we’re happy with the design, we move the temporary styles from the main page to the stylesheet.

Thanks again,
~Joe

If you haven’t touched the theme, then have you considered that it’s something to do with an individual post? Try changing the status of those top two posts to “draft” and see if the issue goes away.

>> One thought though, I’d like to see a clickable header
>> image to take you back home rather than the home link
>> in the menu. This is so common that I think many folks
>> have come to expect it.

OK. Done.

>> That doesn’t make sense. It is more likely to lead
>> the user to think that other pages too have such
>> content-less black footers and so they will avoid
>> scrolling.

The pages in question have very clearly defined footers after which nothing but a solid color is visible no matter how far you scroll down. To think that someone would search for content after a) they found what they’re looking for or b) noticed the obvious end to the page is absurd.

I’ll definately share… It’s really not a theme so much as it should be a plugin. Although at the moment I’ve hard coded a bunch of php into the page that calls the loop. I should remove the code from there and put it in a plugin so that the concept of primary, secondary and terciary posts can be fitted to any theme.

Before anyone would want to use this approach one would have to understand the limitations. For example… the photos that go with the post can not be larger than the width of the columns for the two secondary level posts. You also have to basically have an editorial policy of keeping the “excerpt” or the text before the <!--more--> tag about the same length in all posts. Otherwise the secondary level posts become unbalanced.

~Joe

It’s intentional. I do it to add some depth to the home page because most (all) the inside pages will be deeper than the home page. That means that all the inside pages will likely have vertical scroll bars while the home page does not — unless it’s artficially elongated. The reason this is a particular bug-a-boo for me. Is I hate the “jitter” one sees when one switches from a page with a vertical scroll bar to a page without. Add the padding at the bottom and jitter is gone.

Did you get a chance to look at the Dining Guide? It’s made up of posts too… another hack at the moment to get the two columns “crammed” into the “narrowcolumn” of the Default design.

NEVERMIND… I found

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Alphabetizing_Posts

which for some reason I could not find earlier this evening.

Sorry… my fault… question was not clear enough. Want I want to be able to do is change how “the_content” is created. Specifically I want to change the tag that is injected into “the_content”

Oh yeah… forgot to answer some questions…. Yes the solid color box in the designers sample is supposed to represent an image. Problem with proposed solutions is that I can’t set the right margin of the headline since the images are of different sizes. Thanks ~joe

Thanks all. I had thouht about the negative “top” margin to shift the content up to the same horizontal as the headline. But that seems like things will break easily when the headline is too large or the visitor ups the size of their font display.

Does anyone have a thought on how to get the image into the post without it being embeded in the text of the post? (All the image plugins I see seem to put the image in the body of the post)

I guess as a last resort, I’m going to have to find the place in WP where “the_content” is created and cram the headline into “the_content” somewhere. (I guess alternatively I should really create my own custom “joe_content” modeled after “the_content” and leave “the_content” alone so I don’t break other stuff.

Anyone know specifically where “the_content” is created?

Thanks, but it’s not a matter of changing themes… it’s a matter of separating the various items that make up a post (headline, image, content, dateline, etc)… and then assembling them to achieve the desired result. The problem is that the image is contained with the content so one has to do a little CSS magic and that’s the part I’m stuck on. Alternatively, I could find the area in the WP code where “the_content” is created and fiddle with it. (That’s a real last resort for me)

anyone?