richardpd

Hi
I have spent the majority of today trying unsuccesfully to get this nav bar issue fixed. I appear to have gone backwards in development in the process as my intro section image & page background image are now not displaying! I tried using full address references for image sources but to no avail!

My somewhat basic & hapless theme (but it is based on html5…)can be seen on onlinewpthemetest (My WP onlinethemetestblog site).

I had to take it off my active chess blog at https://www.chessat.richard-dickinson.com and I have a free theme in place there for now.
The navbar does not display site pages properly as tested on my full chess blog but this is not seen/does not show on my theme test blog site.

A few days ago I thought I was quite close to having a functioning theme but after still struggling with it today I am not so sure now.
So again I would really appreciate some more help to get this new theme of mine fixed and working satisfactorily. I look forward to some reply, many thanks

Thanks RVoodoo
I am looking at TwentyTen & will see if I can use it to get my nav bar going properly!
If not I may ask for help again ! ??

Hi
Thanks for your replies.I agree I should not have the Home link hardcoded there and removed it but no matter what code I use I cannot gat a plain navbar with page links to display properly.
What am I doing wrong & how can I fix this?

I shall continue editing this myself but am struggling with it so
I am grateful for some more help to get a navbar working for my theme.
I would really appreciate this and again look forward to some more advice on this.Thanks

Thanks esmi & keesiemeijer

I now have the image issue fixed and will look at page lists now.
(I did wonder about having an images folder & it seems it was needed!).

Best wishes

Hi
I continue to edit my theme and I would appreciate some help and advice on getting it right.
Please see https://www.richard-dickinson.com

I want the footer to span the midcol box and sidebar box (like the header does) but cannot get it to do so yet.

Also the blog looks different in IE browser and Firefox.

I am most grateful for some helpful advice and look forward to some reply, many thanks

Hi again
I have edited my wordpress theme some more now and it is getting a bit better. Hopefully it has passed W3C html validation.

Please look at it at https://www.richard-dickinson.com

I would like the footer to span the entire page width.How do I do that?

I am most grateful for helpful comment on how I can edit this theme/on WordPress theme editing so I can make this theme to a good WordPress theme standard. Please understand I am new to making WP themes and am just learning about theme development and want to develop my learning and practice.

I am most grateful for helpful replies, many thanks

I do not understand-I ran my index.htm file through the validator & used Tidy to fix the errors. This gives :

[Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

The doc type is still transitional and now the footer doesn’t display properly using the original style.css (code shown in previous post).

Hi
Can someone please help me to position the sidebar properly?
Here is the style.css:

[CSS moderated as per the Forum Rules.

This sidebar should sit in the middle of the right column but so far I cannot move it from it’s position bottom right of the page!
I cannot seem to fix this yet so I would appreciate some help (see https://www.richard-dickinson.com)

Looking forward to helpful replies

Hi
Strange thing here: I use Xampp on my Vista computer to develop with and in my Xampp localhost WordPressMU install I can access the theme editor in my new theme but I do not have a theme editor option in my live hostgator server install of my new theme!
I wonder why?

Anyway now I will look at that sidebar code. I am still keen for advice on how to develop and edit my new theme and would appreciate helpful feedback/comments. Many thanks

Hi
Thanks for your good advice & links on how to understand CSS & PHP better.

When this style was added to my stylesheet I am not sure how it worked as nothing new was added to html layout -the only difference being that I had added the new WordPress php code to link to the new header image in the header.php..

There is a lot to learn & understand!
Many thanks

Hi alchymyth

That has worked nicely-thanks very much!
I don’t understand how it worked though as this appears to be a new CSS attribute that has been added to the stylesheet (ie #header a img)?

I am grateful if you can explain how/why it works but very glad it does work! I wish I understood CSS and php better!
Regards

Hi bigchezmtkg

Just replying to your message on my post about custom header image issue. I have to say I am new to WordPress & it has taken me a little while to get the right coding to add my image header (in place of header text) and get it clickable. I sorted the clickable bit with code in my header.php so I guess you need to edit that to get yours clickable as a link to the relevant homepage.

Here is the relevant part of my header.php code that makes the image clickable. If you do something similar in your header.php you should get it working!

<div id="header">
    <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">
  <img src="https://learningthepianohelpsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/learningthepianohelpsite.jpeg" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" />
    </a>
   <br /><br /><br /><br />
	<p class="description">
<?php bloginfo('description'); ?></p>
</div><!--end header-->

I hope this helps you (if it does or doesn’t(!?) I would appreciate your feedback!). Goodluck and best wishes

Hi
Yes- the logo is positioned at the top of the header presently but I want to know how to position it within the header (any arbitary distance away away from top/bottom/sides of header-so I can control where it goes).
Hope this is clear
(thanks for tidying the code-apologies I am relatively new to posting here)

Hi
I am trying to contact Caspie please as Fast-tube plugin is not working on my new blog at
https://www.richard-dickinson.com

Can you help me fix this please?