vavroom

pros:
1- It does look clean ??
2- Interesting and varied content

Cons:
1- Can’t use the site without images (no alt attribute defined for the img tag)

2- Appears to load in some sort of a frame, all urls for all pages are the same (it’s gonna kill on you search engines, and it really aggravates me if I want to bookmark a page that I have to bookmark the site)

3-

well, I was giving an *example*. You have to set the values you want. And to decide what value goes where, you use the “clock” analogy I gave.

margin: 0 1em 3em 1em;

Gives 0 on top, 1em on right, 3em on bottom, and 1em on left.

It goes clockwise, and always starts from “noon”.

Alternatively, you may say:
margin-top: 0;

hmm, in your CSS, you add the code I gave you in my first response.

I can’t tell you *exactly* how to do it, but I’ve given you a typical way to call an image as a link (the image tag within a link tag), then the line of CSS styling to add a border for those images.

a img {border: 2px solid FF66FF;}

Note, the colour I gave the border is an ugly pink, adjust as you see fit ??

Well, to take out the border on images, you’d go:

img {border:0;}

To leave the border on images that serve as a link, if your links are created like so:

<a href=""><img src="" alt="" /></a>

You’d go something like:

a img {border: 2px solid FF66FF;}

I hope this helps

//Edit: P.S. I’m amazed that you can devote an entire website to the history of ONE brand of sneakers! LOL

I think your #2 might gain from applying the “Faux Column” technique you can find on https://alistapart.com

Re the footer, looking at it now, it looks fine, I don’t see a problem, but it’s hard to tell.

Have you gotten any farther since you posted?

a very brief look shows me that you aren’t actually specifying the unit. YOu have:
<div id="sidebar" width="175">

which may cause problems. Try:
<div id=”sidebar” width=”175px”>`

And make sure to specify the unit for all dimmension declarations (except when it’s 0). This might help quite a bit.

FWIW, in Firefox, it looks like your sidebar is indeed 175px wide.

It’s not actually WP that messes with your code, it’s TinyMCE, which is the WYSIWYG Editor.

Turn it off, it’ll go better.

Hmmm, first, this bumping 30 minutes apart *really* turns me off from wanting to help.

Second, I did give you the way to do it. YOu had but to do a wee bit of digging.

You have to learn a bit, not get everything delivered on a silver platter.

/me shrugs

FWIW, while I’d never touch any reference about wordpress or the theme’s author in the source files, I don’t leave a “powered by” where script kiddies can easily see them (I’m new to WP, but it’s something I’ve done with any systems I’ve used).

Well, if your image is in a div called “header”, the CSS would be:

div#header img {
border:0;
}

Hope this helps.

I think there’s a saying to the effect that “there are none so blind that those who won’t see”. <shrug>

I like the simplicity of it. It’s colourfull but not an eyefull either. It isn’t cluttered, unlike so many sites one sees nowadays.

That said, a couple small issues. The magenta sidebar overlaps the main content area when looking at the site on 800×600 resolution (firefox 1.5.0.4 peecee).

The contrast of the white text against said magenta background is not very strong, it is hard to read. Perhaps set the font-weight to bold for that area might help?

The links in your header above the Gareth Townsend (home, archive, about) also seem to lack contrast, but more importantly are too close together. Add some padding-left and padding-right to separate them some more. Perhaps bolding them as well?

Finally, the sidebar disapears when looking at a single post. This may be by design, but it removes the search function and some of the navigation, forcing the user to go back to the home page for it. Not a behaviour I’d go for, but that’s just me ??

Cheers, thanks for showing us the work.

I’m not sure how you can determine exactly where to break it in half, but have you considered using float:left instead of display:inline? You’d have to do some fiddling with the rest of the styling (like adding a width for the li), but a quick test shows that at least your li won’t overlap.

Just a thought, your mileage may vary ??

You might be able to speed up the process if you have shell access, upload the files to the top directory of the server and copy them to the different installs. It’s still having to do it 20 times, but it can go *really* fast.

Upload one zip file, unpack it, and copy it over.

Just a thought, maybe won’t work for your situation.