monkeypup

Best way to do this, in my opinion, is the Admin Menu Plugin from Semiologic. This gives several options like posting and editing at the top of the page. It is invisible to visitors that are not logged in, and it looks great to signed-in users without being disruptive.
You can get it here.

I’m getting a 404 when I even try to go to your site. Perhaps it’s a hosting issue?

Antman-
You want to open up your FTP program to change file permissions. Read here in the codex for more.

NICE! When, exactly, do you sleep, Sean?

hey, InsaneElf – email me your sidebar.php file and I can make sure it works and all checks out. Since I don’t know what your sidebar.php file looks like after your changes, I can’t tell you where to add it.

monkeypup at gmail dot com

no problemo!

Rocking! The tags function is killer. I wish Performancing would get it!

TFlan-
You need to open up your Sidebar.php document.
Add:

<img src="Http://whereveryourimageis">

underneath something that looks like this:


<?php wp_list_pages(''); ?>


Be sure to save your original file. You might need to move here or there to suit your needs avoid code errors.

I hate making themes 800×600 compatible. I also hate making them IE compatible. But I do. Because there’s too many folks still using both to alienate them.

Doodlebee –

First of all, people love to customize their sidebar. So if it doesn’t support widgets, people will ask you to do so pretty much as soon as you release it.

Getting that out of the way, I think the following are always standard:

Page list (unless you have it in a navigation bar. if so, putting it in the sidebar is a wee bit redundant.)

Category List

Meta or Login

But again, picking the best sidebar features will differ depending on who you talk to. So making it customizable (ala widgets) will really make your end users happy.

ahhhh. you said a mouthful. You reworked your sidebar.
If your sidebar doesn’t have the right command, widgets won’t work for squat. Possibly you deleted some part or all of that command when you reworked the sidebar.

This might work:

Open your sidebar.php and look for something like this:


<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>


Should be at the top. Also, at the bottom should be something like this:


<?php endif; ?>


If one of those is missing, well, it’s not going to work.

Check out this page for more like this.

Another reason your widgets would not work is if the javascript folder is in the wrong place. But, if you can drag and drop with no problem in the widget screen, that’s not the problem. If you can drag, but not drop? That’s the problem.

If you still need help, you can mail me at:
monkeypup AT gmail DOT com

well, html won’t do. ya need some good ol’ php.
here’s a link to what ya need in the codex.

For CSS to affect a Div, you should use


<div id="">

or


<div class="">


Classes can be edited with periods, IDs with Number signs. As in the example:


#header
{
Width: 780px;
}

.headertitle
{
Color: red;
}

Crenauer-
This is one of two common things that can happen when your blog URL and the URL you type to get there don’t match. Meaning, if you type www dot blog dot com rather than blog dot com or vice versa. If what you type doesn’t match what WordPress has, it can cause the ol’ blank screen problem.
Of course, it might be something else, but that seems the most likely.

So, try adding or excluding the www and see if that changes anything. If you can now get in your admin panel, change the URL of the blog in the options panel to match what you routinely type.

Hope this helps.
Jdo

looks fine to me in IE and FF.