Marello

OK, as it’s a photography website I’d rather not add text to the image galleries. Do you have any suggestions on what I can do to help the homepage appear when I search for his details?

OK good to know.

Why do you think only the “about” page is appearing then and what can I do to help matters?

Thanks!

Finally managed to restore my website back after pretty much deleting it (sigh).

Andrew – clearing the element worked like a charm! Thank you so much!

In an ideal world I’d like to put the captcha form underneath the photo of the man with a cat. I tried vertically aligning it to middle and also clearing it just in case but that didn’t seem to do anything. What should I be looking up to try and make that happen?

FYI as the website has moved slightly, the page in question is here.

Thanks WPyogi, that validator link is very helpful.

In terms of “learning a bit more” I’m the type of person that has to learn how to do relevant tasks as I go along. Could you direct me as to what type of topics I should be looking at in regards to this?

Marello

A child theme adds another level of hierarchy. As I still don’t actually know how to “sort the HTML structure” that’d ad an extra challenge into the mix, seeing as I only started learning 2 months ago.

I made the conscious choice to do this as I expect the site to be replaced within 12 months. For now this arrangement is suitable for the end user and my learning. In time I can then look at moving it to a child theme.

I’d be very grateful for some further description on what I should be searching with to “sort the HTML out”. Unfortunately as I’m so new I often come across a problem where I don’t know the terms I should be searching for to find guidance.

Many thanks,

Marello

Hi Wpyogi,

Thanks for the feedback. I’m not entirely sure how I go about sorting the HTML structure. It’s my first website.

I made the decision not to use a Child Theme so I could customise further, I don’t intend to update.

I decided to start moving the site from the test to final domain during the time this thread was running. Unfortunately now I’m in a bit of a pickle as I can’t log in and can’t see any of my files…sigh. That’s why you can’t see the site as it was before.

It’s a custom template that I made myself.

Done it, thanks so much guys!

Thanks guys!

Yes I have seen that site and my code is as follows in footer.php:

<div class="CopyrightFooterNotice">
Copyright ? 2013 David Howes
</div>
</body>

I understand what I’m meant to do, I just can’t understand how you do it if the above isn’t correct?
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Thanks songdogtech! I definitely do want that eventually….however at the moment all I want to do is put a wrapper (?) around all the content of my desktop site (header and body) so that I can position things where I want and know that get things to stay in place.

As an example, you’ll see at the moment if I make my page really small the menus overlap but I don’t want to float them left and right because then there’d be huge amounts of space between all the items if someone maximised on a big screen.

I don’t know the term for this so I can’t search for it and unfortunately as responsive themes are hot stuff all my search results suggest it without going into the basics.

Any pointers would be great.

Thanks!

I think it’s a step ahead of what I’m trying to do right now.

What I’m asking is how you go about making a container for the main content of your site as most websites seem to do this? I understand how to put the body into one but how do you get your menus (which are contained within the header) to do the same?

Thanks Andrew. That link seems to be for making a mobile version of the site though? I’m thinking more about trying to keep all my items in place when people go from a 18″ screen to a 26″ screen or from a maximised window to a restored down size?

OK so I fixed my initial problem as I realised I wasn’t calling my jQuery properly, it should be :

<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery(window).load(function() {
    jQuery('#homepageslider').nivoSlider();
	effect: 'fade'
});

</script>

Unfortunately I don’t seem to be applying CSS to the slider properly.

I’ve used `wp_register_style( ‘nivo-slider’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/styles/nivo-slider.css’, false, ‘1.0’ );
}` In my themefunctions.php

and

wp_enqueue_style('nivo-slider'); in my header.php.

I’ve read through the Codex and I was sure that’s what it said to do?

OK I’ve read up a lot on this. I got the original tutorial I linked to working. However, Jose I understand what you mean about it not being a great method so am now trying to use the bundled script “jquery_ui_accordion”.

The codex implies that this script is pre-registered and so does not need registering in functions.php. Therefore I’ve literally just put this on my customhomepage.php, using the “scriptacular” example from the codex as a guide. I don’t think it’s right yet?

<?php
/*
Template Name: Cover Page With Sliding Menu
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<head>
<?php
function load_jquery_ui() {
    wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui-accordion');
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'load_jquery_ui_accordion');
?>

<?php wp_head(); ?>

</head>

<body>

Jose that’s massively helpful. I really appreciate someone on here taking the time to give some guidance to a n00b. I only started doing this 2 weeks ago.

I’ll leave this thread open until I get it to work so that I can post detailed instructions for other newbies. I noticed from searching that there are a lot of people asking about this.