lhk

Hey,

that’s a GREAT addition to the WP themes! Laila is one of the loveliest and nicest themes I’ve run across, and I use it with many Nucleus installations ??

THANKS!

Greetings

LHK

Hi Semazen,

you might try placing both main content as well as sidebar in the same table cell. A possible alternative might be calling WP inside an iframe (never tried that though).

If it still won’t work…

One of the smaller CMS (with a normal news function usable for blogging) which has no problems being called by tags inside pure table layout is WebsiteBaker (tried it myself, works like a charm, even if you strew the tags into different cells across the table), or Joomla/Mambo, which can also be used for blogging. You might try Sapid (blogging software), I think I saw at least once a tabled layout for this one and Serendipity (also blogging software) which I believe has a special config setting for the blog to be called inside a tabled layout.

Any which way, with WebsiteBaker I’m certain, one of the abovementioned sites for a usergroup with low bandwidth and no CSS capabilities is maintained by a tabled Websitebaker and runs without trouble. It’s definitely lean enough to be used for easy blogging.

Greetings

LHK

Hi Niziol,

just which personal pronoun would you prefer to specify that? Are we already as far with political correct-ass-ness, as reiteration of nouns is needed to evade nonsensical criticism?

I deal daily with “these people”, and never noticed that they’d prefer an americanized pc denomination of the bald fact, that they *are* second and third world, entirely due political behaviour and exploitation of neoliberal capitalist states (including by the way Canada). What would you have them and me call them? “Economically challenged countries”? Or is “countries under permanent financial strain” better?

They (and I) prefer to name things by bald reality, so please go and shove your political correct-ass-ness at someone else.

*shaking my head*

LHK

Hi,

you can decide the winner with your .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.php

Here index.htm comes up first, if not there then index.html, and after that index.php.

Hi,

..CSS is the way to go!..

Not for everyone and not everywhere. This is one of the most annoying misconceptions of geeks from 1st world countries and it renders many CMS absolutely useless for webmasters catering to second and third world usergroups.

What many geeks cannot even conceive of, mentally, is that there are huge usergroups out there in the world which do not have (access to) computers above 486 or earliest pentium level, which use browser below, in parts far below, IE 5 and Netscape 4 level, which are online on thin modem lines (not necessarily 56kb Modems either) and which have a net income per month of way under 100 USD.

These people still need the internet standards of the day before yesterday, anything else quite simply won’t work. Try it out, simulate accessing websites maintained by CSS-geared CMS using e.g. Win95 (or even 3.11) with a Netscape 3 or 4 or an IE 4 (and that’s a must, as these computers simply didn’t have the HD space to accommodate any system better than that).

Whoever has to cater to such usergroups (I do with several quite large projects) will immediately turn away from any CMS which is not capable of pure tabled layout instead of CSS by choice. For such projects you use no or as little CSS as you can manage, and you go for ultra-lean design and lowest possible bandwidth.

It would be nice to use many of the OSS CMS for this, but very often I turn to commercial software, because they cater to the customer instead of geek dreams. And geek dreams this question – still – is and will be for at least another decade or even longer.

Sorry to burst that bubble, but I truly can’t listen to this “CSS is the way to go”-stuff without correct restrictions anymore.

Greetings

LHK

Not about the theme, but rethink the name maybe ?? In Germanic languages “Frusti” means “someone constantly frustrated” or “something frustrating”…

Hi,

the problem arises partly out of the fact, that your color scheme is a bit illogical and “mixed”.

I like the general scheme of two tones of burnt siena with reddish ochre and black/dark brown (in the graphics).

This scheme works well and meshes well.

Your links and highlights however follow a totally different color scheme, which is not really linked – colorwise – with the other. It’s a “competitor” within the field of reds/redbrowns.

I’d either go for an antagonist color (like such pairs as red-green, blue-yellow, etc.), or I’d go for the same scheme as the main one, if you want a generally blended, calm look.

A good antagonist for your base scheme would be the leaf and olive greens. What also would work are either the turquoise blue shades or the cobalt blue shades.

The search button I’d give a toned down shade of whatever links colors scheme you decide upon. The textfields background I’d only slightly color, with a very light version of the text color of your body text (your main scheme), just so the extreme white is broken.

Regarding the links color scheme: the white for hover doesn’t work at all, that’s where you break colors a second time, the first break is – as I said – the clashing, competing clear orange.

I would have liked to make some concrete suggestions, but to be honest, your jumbled CSS file and finding the relevant spots there, was way too much trouble for this early hour. A tip: try to keep CSS nicely structured if you want people having a look and maybe helping. If they have to hunt through reams of non-structured jumbled text to pinpoint some specific class or tag, that’s asking a bit much ;-).

Greetings

LHK

Hi,

Yes, I’d be interested in that one too. I have a similar but less elaborate solution currently, as I never got any of the plugins to work properly.

Greetings

LHK

Hi,

such a graphically rather simple banner image should never have 40+kb! Here the results of proper compression thru Fireworks (Adobe Photoshop or free software achieve similar results) as gif and a middle quality jpg:

10kb jpg – https://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1364/popbanner9tg.jpg

7kb gif – https://img71.imageshack.us/img71/8628/popbanner4ps.gif

Even with graphics intense banners of larger size I rarely reach more than 25kb. Many, MANY people still access the internet on a modem. If a page takes ages to load already regarding graphics they wander on before you page is visible.

I guess you tried to go for a “fresh” and easy look with a dark background. However I too think that this white/yellow on black is a tad too hefty. Take the edge off the black a bit (dark anthrazite or dark blue also are dark, but not that unremitting) or go for a milder yellow (= one more into the red range like corn or wheat yellow instead of this bright citrus kadmium one) and a broken (= eggshell or greyish) white.

If you have 3 columns, USE them!

You put all the links left and have little on the right. Depending on whether or not you need your advertisements (I’d quickly lose them) try for a format less invasive and place some content instead on the right column. E.g. place all the “non-blog” links on the right, or do it vice versa.

Coming with this advice is the other that maybe you should shed a bit of the “clutter”, there are countless off site links which could just as well go into a links page instead, or you could make several links pages linking only what you currently have as headings on the columns themselves.

I agree with this “too wide” impression, wide and stretchy works better for different types of design. Give the user a bit of space where to rest his eyes, give them a bit of a margin/padding with nothing, like the page of a book.

Too many posts are visible as well, try doing only 5 or only 10 teasers mostly then without the photos (or make them clickable thumbnails).

But, all put together it’s not truly bad, the concrete idea and line are there, which is actually most important.

Greetings

LHK

Hi,

have you set up a MySQL database and assigned a user?

…just asking…

LHK

Hi,

I like it, for me the contrast is quite ok and the font size acceptable (using a quality 17in screen with a 1024×768 solution).

About the validation issue: I tend to wonder why people have started to be so anal about this myself.

Myself I don’t care whether people wish to access my personal sites by palm pilot or text-only browser and in real life I also don’t print anything in Braille either, I use a normal printer for fliers or whatever. Accessibility is no issue to me, my sites are private efforts, no government sites which per definition have to be accessible. The vast majority of browsers hitting my sites are either IE 5.5+ or FF 1.0+, that’s the people I write for, though most other browsers also display just nicely. I have a hard time wrapping my brain around getting anal because of an ampersand here or there where it has no business being.

Greetings

LHK

Hi,

Actually GNU GPL demands the copyright being left in in the source code _somewhere_.

I *ALWAYS* remove openly readable copyright notices of GNU GPL software, it’s the one thing which easily and quickly identifies the software make to script kiddies, it’s easily searchable through the searchmachines and it literally screams “hello, you know how to hack me, do it!”.

I also usually remove any hints in source code which turn up in search and leave them in where I’m sure they won’t. Additionally I never publish addresses of such installations in their relevant support areas or all those “brag yours”-lists.

I’ve been doing this ever since script kiddies nearly took down the shared server of my host (who thankfully is very competent in these respects) and had a good long talk with him. The measures above are a result of this discussion.

What I usually do is set up a special and static “credits page” in which I use gifs to visually display link code towards the software origins which I want to credit.

That PostNuke – of them all and with their background – tries to force their users to turn a wide open flank is pretty arrogant, dangerous and a tad too selfserving for my taste. It’s a reason why I’d never use it and have told everyone who asks me to not touch it with a 10 ft pole.

Greetings

LHK

podz – do I read sarcasm there? *still scratching – as I haven’t done more than upgrade 1.5.1 to 1.5.2 so far*

LHK

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Hi Podz,

and why is it such a horror to upgrade to 2.0.2 from 2.0.1? *scratching my head*

LHK