seamoose

Hello World!

Thanks HandySolo, good job. And thanks all for the help. Marking as resolved … now.

Very excellent forum too I might add, polite, helpful, low on ego. happy campers!

Thanks Michael,

Here’s what I have in wp-config

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘PASSWORD’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

i am pretty sure xampp has started. it is teling me it’s good to go, activated, congratualations, etc, but when i try wp-admin/intall.php it says “Error establishing a database connection”

Thanks Whooami. When i click that link you gave me (local host) i just get the usual firefox message:
Unable to connect. Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost.* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again … yadda yadda

so I guess its not IIS

So I wonder what the problem could be then? The only part of the instructions that looked different to the actual screen when setting up the database was the bit where I had to fill int the name (wordpress) then utt8 unicode ci

“utt8 unicode ci” was already in a field above, but whether i filled the second field with utt8 unicode ci or “collate” which was there. No dice either way. The auto choice thing has underscores though when the instructions do not. or is all this irrelevant.

Help?

thanks spencerp. it was the photo in IE one and someone helped me out now so i am a happy camper ??

I have set all threads i have spawned thus far to resolved.

thanks again.

freo4cup you are a genius. You should win a Noble Prize. God Bless your cotton socks ??

I did this but to no avail. please advise if i was doing what you suggested or not:

body {
font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
font-family: ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background: transparent url(‘images/cool_moose4Acopy.jpg’)no-repeat top left;
color: #333;
text-align: center;
}

#page {
background-color: transparent;

text-align: left;
}

#header {
background: transparent url(‘images/Seamus_headsmall.jpg’) no-repeat top left;

Any chance of some further feedback? I just want to fix the photo in IE thing so I can not do any more design work (not my thing). https://moosemusic.com

cheers

“The real ‘gaf’ was modifying the default theme.”

Really? It was dumb to use the default theme at all or to modify it?

Is there no way I can just fix the issue so that I don’t have to spend any time rebuilding an entire new blog or do I really need to install a new theme? And if so what theme do you reccomend? I really just want the plain white with the photo up top left.

Thanks for any feedback.

Oh and the fact that the page validated was, I can assure you, a total fluke.

Thanks.