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Sorry about that.

The solution was embarrassingly simple, actually–I just looked at the code in my sidebar template to see what kind of tags the Recent Comments feature uses, and then I went into the stylesheet and modified the properties for those tags.

I answered some of my own questions…I’d delete this thread if I could figure out how!

I did. Thanks, podz, and sorry I forgot to mark this topic resolved.

Thanks, Ajay…I eventually figured it out. The sidebar element seemed to appear suddenly because I only submitted my blog to Technorati a couple of days ago, and they didn’t register my account until today.

Sorry about the duplicate post, folks. Hopefully no one will comment on the other one and it will disappear into the ether.

Aha! Yup, that’s it, Beel — thanks. I commented it out. I guess I’ll have to check at the Technorati site and find out if there’s any reason why I should keep it in. I’m still a newbie…

Thanks again.

That could’ve been it, oriecat. No big deal–this time, anyway.

Ah…I’m afraid I wasn’t clear enough. Sorry. I made the changes to my sidebar a few days ago, and was updating the file as I went. The file was indeed writable, because my changes were there when I viewed the blog in my browser. Everything was fine until today, when the original sidebar (sans my changes) showed up suddenly.

Hi Moshu…not quite sure what you mean (newbie here). I was using the Theme Editor to modify my sidebar template.

Hello,

I’ve been searching for a simple solution to this–I too want to link my banner to the homepage. I tried the code joeedmon offered, and it does link the banner, but when hovering over the image, the banner disappears and the background color of the masthead shows. Any way around this?

My blog-in-progress is here. Thanks.

Thanks again.

Safari. Where would I put the !important tag, though? That’s a new one to me.

It’s not really too much padding on my Mac, I’m just wondering if there’s a fix to solve the issue with Windows without affecting the layout for Macs. Of course, maybe it’s a browser thing, not an OS thing, now that I think of it.

Bingo! Thanks, Beel. Here’s the code I used:

<span style="float:right; padding-right: 8px";>--Erich Fromm</span>

That look about right?

Thanks for the info re. padding, Viper. That (admittedly simple) solution worked. I might look around for a fix that doesn’t add padding, though, because while the sidebar will look better on a Windows machine now, it’s got a little more top padding than I want when viewing the site on Macs.

Thanks, Viper–alas, I tried your fix and the byline still doesn’t want to budge. Do you think there’s something in my stylesheet that’s making the [span style] tag inoperable?

Wow, that was fast! Thanks, oriecat–the problem, strangely enough, is that the file for the sidebar background was named “menu.gif.gif”. I removed the superfluous “.gif” and that did the trick.

The quotation at the top of the sidebar may change from time to time, but for the most part it’ll be static–so I don’t think I need one of the “randomizer” plugins. I also may want to add a brief “About the site” paragraph to the sidebar, along with small banners for political campaigns and other temporary images and text. You get the idea. I’m sure I’ll need to get more comfortable with coding and with associating sidebar elements with the .css style sheet. I did manage to insert text into the sidebar by modifying the sidebar.php file, but I don’t know how to position the text to my liking, apply different styles, etc. Any tips would be welcome!

Thanks again.