kickass

You’re welcome!

Thanks everybody!- restored to original, and working, though with the not SE friendly URLs. At least it works again ??

Re host- I guess it probably isn’t. I asked them about mod_rewrite and got kind of a vague answer about how they didn’t plan on doing any updates. I think it’s time to shop hosts.

Though it seems you’ve found your solution, I’m going to add this anyway since others might read here. ZenCart is pretty cool, fairly robust for all small to medium web businesses, and css/standards compliant out of the box (as is WP!) Pretty easy to install too, and the developer community and forum is as friendly and helpful as the WP community. I’d recommend it.

For the record, OSCommerce is not css standards compliant. The ZenCart originators forked from OSCommerce for this reason.

Three EXCELLENT CSS tutorials here:

https://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/

Lots of answers to css questions here, and lots of links to many other css sites:

https://css-discuss.incutio.com/

And if you REALLY wanna learn css, join thecss-discuss list. I warn you though, it’s addictive and not for the faint of heart.

For php Zend has already been mentioned. I had this one in my bookmarks, but don’t know how good it is . . .

https://www.thescripts.com/serversidescripting/php/index.html

I use DW, and don’t mind it, since I edit css in straight code and have been using DW since almost its (and my web) beginning, but folks at CSS-Discuss have been talking StyleMaster up, and seem to think it’s pretty decent. It’s for both Mac and Win, reasonably priced and has a 30 day trial. You might wanna give it a spin, then post back and tell us what you think.

https://www.westciv.com/style_master/

Thanks, vkaryl!

If another theme competition comes along I just might be inspired to enter it. Maybe I’ll kick some ass . . . *grin*

Re the nick- if you were a tomboy who preferred decapitating dolls to dressing them up, and playing touch football with the guys, would you sit still when your mother called you Bonny Jean? (after Scarlet O’Hara’s daughter) AARRGGHH!

Okay, so in the absence of answers I tried that plugin, reduced rewrite. Now I just get a broken 404 with my images thrown around and nothing where it belongs- which used to not be the case. In fact the 404 is REALLY bizarre. It missed ONE image in my php generated html from header, it missed ONE image from my styles.css, and it threw out my search box entirely, which causes everything to float left in a disastrous way.

Apparently Apache 1.3.33 does not handle this kinda stuff well. And I didn’t even TRY to use the category in the new permalink url.

All I wanna do is restore the default and say the hell with this. It broke something that used to work. How do I do that? Do I have to do a reinstall? Or can I selectively upload something?

Thanks!

I’m still tweaking . . .

I’m on an apache 1.3.33 so most solutions won’t work. Now my urls read right but give me 404s instead of permalinks, and DELETING the info out of .htaccess and trying to put the permalinks back the way they were doesn’t work.

chmod on .htaccess is currently set to 666 and the .htaccess is altered as it should be for the change to work. And I still get a 404 on permalinks.

Why isn’t there a “reset to default” on this??? That seems to be a BIG oversight.

Can anybody help?

Here are links to a couple css thumnail gallery methods that would be pretty easy to incorporate into a theme. This may not be a bells-and-whistles way of doing it, but it works and is easy to add to a theme simply by defining the html and css.

https://more.ericmeyeroncss.com/dloads/
https://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/dl-image-gallery.htm

Always helps to have more than one way to go . . .

There are a couple ways to handle it. There are a few escrow services out there– the money is paid in total into the escrow service by the client and released to you upon satisfactory completion of the job. I’d google that and see what you find, it’s how most of the freelancer sites handle things.

Hmm. Maybe just the url . . .

https://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/#more-14