robertmcclelland

Looking at your website, it looks like the index for your blog is external.html. First try renaming that to external.php.

Here’s the basic code for embedding video in a post.

<embed SRC=url WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=false CONTROLLER=true LOOP=false ></embed>

The only thing I can see is in this block of code;

#links ul,
#profile ul,
#profile2 ul,
#aim ul,
#pages ul,
#style ul,
#meta ul,
#other ul,
#calendar ul,
#archives ul,
#categories ul,
#wordpress ul {
white-space: nowrap;
text-align: left;
background-color: #D1E3FF;
border-top: 1px solid #00C;
padding: 2px;
font-weight: normal;
}

This might be telling everything listed there not to wrap. Try deleting the first line from the code and see what happens;
#links ul,

The problem appears to be with this block of code in your stylesheet.

a:hover {
color: #bfb39b;
border-top: 1px solid #bfb39b;
border-bottom: 1px solid #bfb39b;
text-decoration: none;
}

It’s adding a border to the top and bottom of all your links in the sidebar when your cursor hovers over them. Changing the code to this should fix it.

#content a:hover {
color: #bfb39b;
border-top: 1px solid #bfb39b;
border-bottom: 1px solid #bfb39b;
text-decoration: none;
}

You can try adding this to the style sheet right below #menu.

html #menu {margin-right:8%;}

After you make the change, check it using IE. If it didn’t do anything at all or it totally screwed up everything, come back here and we’ll try another hack. If it changed the layout but didn’t position it exactly where it should go, try adjusting the above code. For example, try 7% or 9%. Then try substituting 10px, 15px, etc. instead of x%. Play around with that and see if it fixes the problem in IE. Make sure to also check it out using firefox whenever you make a change.

Just manually change one of the page slugs. Make it “2005-2” for example.

You could try adding a height:100% tag to the main column div, or whatever it’s called, in your stylesheet.

Another solution, if you want your contact sidebar to be identical to your main page sidebar is to change this line of code, located near the top of the sidebar.php file.

<?php if (is_home()) { ?>

Change it to;

<?php if (is_home() || is_page("contact")) { ?>

Yes, in your sidebar.php file, you have to add this code. Add it to the area where similar codes like this are located.

<?php if (is_page("contact")) { ?>
<?php } ?>

Then, between these two lines of code, you have to tell it what content you want displayed in the sidebar. For example, if you want the categories displayed in the contact sidebar, you’d add;

<h2><em>Categories</em></h2>
<ul class="categories">
<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&hide_empty=0'); ?>
</ul>

Look through the different layouts in the sidebar.php file to see how you can add different items to it.

You have to edit the Blix/contact.php file. Open it up and add this code at the bottom, right before the get footer code.

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

You might have to rework the layout.css file to accomodate the sidebar on the page though.

Your pages are the same width as the main page. What you are seeing happening is a slight centering shift when you click on a page. This is due to the fact that the content on your page is insufficient to require a scrollbar. Once you add enough content to your page and a scrollbar appears, it will no longer shift to center itself on the screen.

Open up your wp-login.php file and change this line of code, which is located 3/4 of the way down the page.

$redirect_to = ‘wp-login.php’;

Change it to;

$redirect_to = ‘/reflections’;

Your best approach is to find a theme that best matches what you want and then begin modifying it. This will get you familiar with how and why a style sheet does what it does. Once you can master that, you can then move on to design your own.

Do you want your posts to be moderated too?

You have to make the change in the stylesheet.

Look for this line of code located about 3/4 of the way down the page and change the width.

`#sidebar #searchform #s {
width: 115px;
padding: 2px;
}’