jwilliams

Mike,

I’m seeing the same thing still on wordpress 2.5.1. Trouble is, it causes a warning to be raised against XHTML 1.0 Strict. Sort of obnoxious.

Jameson

Yea furreal, does anyone have FTP? This is borderline ridiculous, really.

I had someone email me about this theme, so for anyone else interested, I’ve got a beta version available for download at https://www.jamesonwilliams.com/bin/oxfordblue-latest.tar.gz .

Any other comments / suggestions on the theme or how to make it more portable / usable would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Jameson

How can I go about changing that – what is the technical limitation? It would be a nice step for uniformity, and a small step for SEO.

Webmeba – good accessibility ideas. I took all of them into consideration and redid the site a bit:

https://www.jamesonwilliams.com

drewactual: I was going for sort of a minimalist thing with design, but that link was pretty neat. I did take the hint and add a few pictures though (more to come!)

Any more ideas?

Thanks a bunch!

easy enough! thank you.

nono, i know about my own feeds. what im saying is that when you add a link to someone elses site in the blogroll section, it asks for the URI to their RSS feed. so I put those in when it asked for them. in the documentation it says you can display those RSS feeds next to the links to the other peoples’ sites. I don’t know how to do that.

I think it all comes down to who’s going to your site, like a lot of people have been pointing out. If your site is titled “post generation X nerds U-nite!” then, well, you know, everyone will be looking at the page in firefox at 1600×1200. but if its a more general public website, then you have to worry about people like my mom who stroll up in IE at 800×600 with glasses on.

Those variable width websites throw on a whole new twist. It’s a hell of alot harder to get away with a good looking and functional variable width site imho though.

lillian garcia is pretty hot, but the site is slow and overdeveloped. the design also lacks a clear central port.

i think that is pretty nice looking. However, I don’t like that gray bar at the top. I’d much rather just have the page start white, and have the “skip to main content or navigation” line in whitespace in the same place.

go to presentation -> modify theme, open header.php and add a standard xhtml img tag…

<img src="someimage.jpg" />

background colors:

in the same place, go to styles.css and modify the apropriate css tags with the line:

background-color: navy;

for a list of predefined color names go here

I don’t condone the use of flash so I refuse to offer any suggestions there. (hoho)

open up index.php in the /wp-content/yourtheme folder and delete the get_comment(); type php lines. that will do it for sure.

well, first off, i would recommend highly against using frames. that’s sort of a 1999 trick for what will hopefully by a year 2006 website.

as for the header:

in the “presentation” section in the admin section, open index.php and remove
<?php get_header() ?>
which is towards the top.

or, if you want to just put an image in, then open header.php and add the line <img src="yourimage.jpg"> where you want it.

to add a background image, open styles.css and add the line

background-img: url(animage.jpg);

to the body tag.

i’d also suggest you read a CSS tutorial:
W3school’s CSS Tutorial

Might as well read the PHP and XHTML tutorials while youre at w3schools.

unrelated to WP: you should resize that to 788px or there abouts somehow, its sort of awkward being narrow and on the right.