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To see if it’s a problem with the editor or something else, try turning off the WYSIWYG editor — there’s a check box under “users” ‘your profile.’

Unfortunately, whichever way this test goes, I don’t know what else to tell you. Hopefully someone else will jump in.

That’s the aspect of CSS I haven’t quite grasped yet — I know how to make a class and use it, but the greater specificity stuff is pretty new to me.

Glad you other folks stepped in to clear it up.

Are the emoticons in the posts?

If not, you could create a class that would only apply in “post” divs.

#post img
{
border: 1px solid #000;
}

Otherwise I think you’re right that

.border p img

would work.

Since you want the border on most images, I would add

border: 1px solid #000;

to the CSS for “img,” then make a new class, like

.no-border
{
border: none;
}

At least I think that would work.

Then, in your posts, any time you don’t want the image to have a border, include class=”no-border” in the HTML img tag.

Faith,

In order to make your posts wider, you’ll need to adjust some items in the stylesheet.

Before you do anything, make a backup copy of the existing stylesheet, in case you want to undo your changes.

It can be tricky to figure out which CSS class you want to modify. In your case I’d guess you want to modify both “entry” and “content.” To see what these classes do, assign each class a different background color, such as

#content
{
background: #00FF33;
}

which would make the content box bright green.

Then you can decide which class’s margins you need to adjust to get the width you want. Once you have the margins you want, remove those background colors.

Writing new pages is easy. In your dashboard, choose “write” in the light blue menu bar, then choose the “write page” tab.

Have you tried the <A HREF=”https://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/”>”the_excerpt Reloaded” plugin?

It allows some customization of excerpts.

Uri,

There’s no space between a ; and “background” in the wrapper part. Not sure if it matters.

Also, I have no idea if it makes a difference or not, but your image urls are not enclosed in single quotes like they are in my css.

Otherwise, I have to give up — I don’t know enough to help any further.

Good luck!

Uri,

Can you post the CSS bits for the wrapper and for the footer?

I wonder if it’s an issue with the way you’re tiling?

Maybe I do have shockwave disabled — couldn’t find anything about it. I don’t have any extensions or plugins with FF so maybe that’s all I would need.

I do see that header in IE — and I guess that’s what causes the soundfile, too? Personally, I hate sites that automatically load soundfiles — can you add controls that allow a user to turn off the sound?

The difference I see between FF and IE is that in FF the ends of the paint splashes start at the top of the middle section with the three columns. In IE, paint stripes start there, and end with those splashes at the bottom.

I honestly don’t know enough about the browser differences to understand why this is happening. Still, I wonder if it has anything to do with whether that striped background is assigned to the page class or the wrapper class, or if it matters that your footer div is inside the page div.

EDIT — very odd, but after opening the page in IE, suddenly the header also appears in FF. And I see you do have a sound off control — for some reason the complete header didn’t load in IE and didn’t show that control. My apologies.

I see that the entry text on the Celebrities category page is the only part of the main column that doesn’t wrap. Looking at the source, I see you’ve got that entry text enclosed in <pre> and <code> tags. If you remove those, does the entry wrap properly?

I am using Firefox. The positioning of everything seems correct — I see a header on top (but it’s blank), a paint-on-concrete-ish background image with the three columns and footer on it.

Looking at the source, I notice that the footer div is inside the page div. Not sure if that would cause your problem or not.

Is your “faux columns” background assigned to page or to wrapper?

I see the red link, a big red mark, then the bottom links.

Is the red mark just something to show the space you want to reduce?

Without seeing the source code or the CSS, I can’t tell you what exactly you need to change. Can you post a link to the actual page, instead of this JPEG image of the page?

I’m not entirely sure, since I don’t know which one is the MORE link and can’t see the source code.

I would guess it is something in the style sheet. If you can identify the class of whatever it is, you can adjust the margins and / or padding to decrease the space.

I gave up on fluid widths — instead I have two versions of my theme, one for 800, one for 1024, and I use theme switcher plugin to let folks pick.

How many actually use that choice, I’m not sure.

You could create a new p class just for use in posts.

This would involve editing your css to create the class and assign its margins, and editing any templates that have posts in them, i.e. index, archives, single post, etc.