mattme

Did you keep your old php.ini and was MySQL installed to same dir?

You need to uncomment the following line in php.ini
extension=php_mysql.dll
and that file (comes with your MySQL installation in /php/ext/

check you have enabled mysql and not msql or mysqll or anything.

like the colours and photo, go well (i can read it easily), but yes, site is way too narrow, you’re wasting a lot of screen space. i’d hate to think what that would look like in a wide-screen monitor (or in a resolution wider than 1024). could be very frustrating.

i suggest widening it, and also specifying unit in % (to help large screens) or pref in em so that when someone increases the text-size, the width for increase too (trying increasing text-size in current design).

navbar is cool (kudos for using

), but as soon as you scroll down, you’ve lost it, suggest use position: fixed to lock it in place somewhere.

site works with style sheets disabled woo well done.

cool site, like colours, just too narrow.

is that cos wordpress is messing around with absolute URLs in mod_rewrite

wordpress is a mission to integrate into your site, but it is possible
i managed at https://purpletentacle.co.uk – i also integrated kwiki, a perl cgi wiki engine, which was a lot easier.

imo, wordpress comes way over-styled, i would have found it really helpful for it to have come with a skeleton skin. wordpress is difficult because there is so much php intermingled with the html. and a lot of it you don’t want.

i would have found it helpful for wordpress to have come with just the basic php for displaying the posts, without navbar, links etc, wordpress by default generates a whole website much of which you don’t want. surely most users who try wordpress already have a site. wordpress could have then included instructions with more optional php to add.

i was also confused by the fact wordpress uses some of it’s own custom php functions to make html, but i can’t find these anywhere, so i can’t change some bits.

i haven’t yet got ‘static’ pages working through wordpress. i almost did, but it generated bad mod_rewrite which broke the wiki. it keeps trying to write into the root .htaccess file and not /wordpress/.htaccess – or maybe i broke some of the php in page.php

https://purpletentacle.co.uk/wordpress/archive/2005/01/06

default config that is.

rvblog, probably quite a mission. i’ve just managed to integrate wordpress into the same design as my static pages and wiki.

you have a real hand at html and css. i don’t know php though, and managed. it’s best to have your own apache server with php, mysql and wordpress to play on. then you just need to be good at hacking, and play around with the stuff in the templates directory. it does make sense. kwiki has a easier template system. so without first having managed to integrate that, i might not have managed wordpress.

one thing. it’s a lot lot easier to create a template, to modify a template to near what you want and then to create static parts of your page to fit a simple template. don’t like me make a complicated layout for your site and then want to integrate your blog into it.

jerm, your template is looking great. love those smooth gradients. just keep developing it until you can call it a design.

https://purpletentacle.co.uk/

hum, at my website i have some static xhtml pages, wordpress and a perl-cgi wiki (kwiki) running all integrated into the same design.

it was a mission. kwiki was relatively easy to hack into my design, though it was a mission to install (mainly cos perl package manager couldn’t find some of the many prerequisites), i think i have to agree that it is the simplest, easiest wiki engine out there. i’ve also hacked the perl modules to force edits into lowercase. no idea how to hack the php comments to do this.

i only got wordpress (and php and mysql) a couple of days ago, and have just finished integrating it. it’s looking fine, but the html isn’t yet perfect. wordpress has a similar theme system to kwiki, but you’ve got to be more careful, as all the php (a language i don’t know) is spread about, where as kwiki only needs a couple of lines of special [% wiki page content here %], which i inserted into my main design template.

wordpress also has some text in the rendered html (like link title attributes), that i can’t find in the wordpress php anywhere. so i can’t put it into lowercase. that said i managed to remove the blogroll, the navigation and all that stuff.

finally, i also hope to change my static pages into wordpress pages that can be commented on.

all my site shares the same stylesheets (yes there are alt ones) across the site. it pretty much all validates as xhtml and renders usably in internet explorer. the site runs without javascript etc, but
and it’s not fixed width, so it works in low res, and doesn’t waste space in high res (like this site).

i’m running apache2 with php 5 and mysql 4 on my localhost (win32), so the website isn’t always on, but please check it out.

(i’m in the uk, and have it on from maybe 4 pm to 11 pm gmt, and from 9 am to 11 pm at weekends i guess.)

https://purpletentacle.co.uk/

thank to the devs!