Beast Blog Theme for WordPress
I have created a theme for WordPress web log users called “Beast Blog.” It’s what you’re seeing here and now. The style has recieved a lot of positive attention and I was asked by members of the WordPress community to make it available as an official WordPress theme release. I made this web log entry specifically to accept comments, complaints, bug reports, whatever Beast Blog related stuff you may have on your mind. If you wish to download this theme for your own use, or to get more information, please check out this permanent Official Beast Blog Theme Information Page.
To date, the “Beast Blog” theme has been downloaded 3190 times. I hope you’re enjoying it.
Jonathan Fenocchi responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2005 at 11:00 pm →
Kickin’ butt, man. It’s wicked awesome!
Patrick responds:
Posted: October 22nd, 2005 at 6:20 am →
Just great. you can see it here
http://perso.argentine-news.com/
Will send you french translation when finished
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: October 22nd, 2005 at 7:21 am →
That looks sweet, Patrick
Just as a help to you, if you want to use the
"_target"attirbute with XHTML, then you need to do it like this so it’ll validate:onclick="target='_blank'" onkeypress="target='_blank'".The “onkeypress” part of it is for keyboard users. If JavaScript isn’t enabled the page will open internally so those folks aren’t left high and dry.
I noted the underlines. Not sure if you wanted that(though maybe I made a goof). I was curious about so I checked your source and I noted the use of the
<ins></ins>element. You may want to add this to the CSS since “ins” isn’t in it.ins {
text-decoration: none;
}
I love the banner, lookin’ forward to the translation.
Mike
Patrick responds:
Posted: October 22nd, 2005 at 9:09 am →
Thanks Mike. I did the modif in CSS for ins element. In fact I am using ins element after the blockquote to be XHTML valid, only way I found.
The translation will be ready next week, will sent you.
Thanks again
Patrick
Patrick responds:
Posted: October 22nd, 2005 at 5:38 pm →
Just a problem, the RSS for comments does´not work
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: October 22nd, 2005 at 7:14 pm →
I went to your site, Patrick, (love the banner and the green leading letters by the way… looks very nice) and clicked on the “commentaries” link. It seemed to be okay. Did you correct someting or is it still causing a problem. If it’s the latter, please decribe the problem in some detail. Thanks.
By the way, you are going to need to assign classes to your contact form and define it in the CSS as it is in conflict with the comments form focus and hover actions. The comments form is not classed (well, the buttons are “.button” so the actions affecting input and text area are clashing.
A way around this might be to comment out any CSS pertaining to the contact form. If you do that and make the submit/reset inputs of the form the .button class, all should work well for you since both forms will be using the same CSS and will no longer be in conflict. The comments form is in .narrowcolumn, but the CSS width attirbute is in % to account for stuff just like this.
If you need any help, just post here or use my contact form.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: October 23rd, 2005 at 3:04 am →
I’m blown away, The stats output by the download recorder say that the files were downloaded 96 times within the first twenty-four hours of its release (it was around 3:30 am on the 22nd when I finally put the Zip file on the server and made the link live). Two of those downloads are mine — you know, for testing, one from here and one from the Wordpress Codex — so that’s really 94 actual downloads. I’m surprised. Wow! This is kinda cool.
Patrick responds:
Posted: October 23rd, 2005 at 6:36 am →
Well RSS comments are working, sorry, was a server problem.
For the contact form, I am trying to fix the problem… he he not so easy for me
Thanks for the banner, in fact I am better in design than in xhtml
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: October 23rd, 2005 at 1:29 pm →
I think all you have to do is remove the CSS entries on that page. And then add
class="button"to the input submit. Then it should draw from the other CSS and should no longer be in conflict with the existsing CSS rules. Otherwise, the thing is is that you have to redefine the width and height in all states, inactive, active (focus), and hover. In other words, if in its inactive state it iswidth: 97%; height 6em;, then these measures but be copied and used on the “hover” state as well to ensure they don’t change back (flash on hover). On focus is when the textarea can get larger, because that’s when it’s clicked-on. The original CSS does this already, so if you remove the CSS on that page, it should look and work fine. If not, then you need to further carry further the heigth and width of the textarea in its various states. You will need to define it differently from the onboard comments form, thus you will need to classify that textarea separately, i.e….class="textarea2"and supply rules specifically for its use. like so…textarea2 { /* hover classs, ".hover" is for the JS for IE */
background : #ccc;
width : 97%;
height : 6em;
}
textarea2:hover, textarea2.hover { /* Re-define width and height for stability */
background : #fff;
width : 97%;
height : 6em;
}
textarea2, textarea2:focus, textarea2.focus { /* focus class, ".focus" is for the JS for IE */
background : #fff;
width : 97%;
height : 18em; /* on focus it can get larger */
}
One of these two methods should fix up the contact form for you and make it behave.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: October 23rd, 2005 at 4:40 pm →
Bug Reported - 10.23.2005 - Re: comments.php — | Updates and Bugs |
I would like to thank Julia Williams — she can post her link to her wonderful looking web log later if she wants to — for finding and bringing to my attention a tiny coding error I made in the file
comments.php. The problem is I had originally made those include files text files,*.txt. I had changed them to*.phpfiles instead to make them edititable in the admin control panel. Apparently I forgot to change them back in the folder I zipped.The download has been updated. If you were part of the group who downloaded the first 109 copies, you may download the updated comments.php file here as a Zip file.
If you wish to correct this file yourself instead of overwriting it, for any reason, the error can be found on lines 84 and 85 of the
comments.phpfile. As follows.It is like this now:
<?php include("allowable_code.txt“); // *If you do not want this to show, insert two forward slashes before the word “include”* ?>
<?php include(”comment_rules.txt“); // *If you do not want this to show, insert two forward slashes before the word “include”* ?>
And it should be like this:
<?php include("allowable_code.php“); // *If you do not want this to show, insert two forward slashes before the word “include”* ?>
<?php include(”comment_rules.php“); // *If you do not want this to show, insert two forward slashes before the word “include”* ?>
My apologies to anyone affected by my boo-boo.
Patrick responds:
Posted: October 24th, 2005 at 7:08 pm →
I sent you for mail french translation of your great theme
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: October 24th, 2005 at 8:51 pm →
That is awesome, Patrick. I have made the French Version Download Available. Merci beaucoup!
penny responds:
Posted: October 25th, 2005 at 1:56 am →
Hey nice blog and nice interface too.
8 Seconden » Beast Blog responds:
Posted: October 25th, 2005 at 1:52 pm →
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Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: October 25th, 2005 at 6:36 pm →
Ah, 8 Seconden, that screen shot matches your beautiful site very well. Thank you for sharing that with me.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2005 at 2:26 am →
Great theme! As you can see I have tried few other themes at my “wp playground” site. I would hope that you check few things out as below.
The theme looks great in IE but I’m using Firefox and I found the fonts look a bit weird and too large (used smallest text size from tool>view already). The font is just right for IE6. The 2 search boxes also didn’t go inline in FF. FF has reached 10 millions download therefore we can’t ignore it.
Also on the sidebar, if you view in FF, the texts don’t align when it’s wrapped.
At links, does your theme support hierarchical arrangement, i.e. children categories are indent behind parent category?
I haven’t looked inside yet but noticed that there is a Jscript file, what does it do really?
sfong15 responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2005 at 3:32 am →
Mike, I just posted 30 minutes ago. Spent that time tweaked the font size etc… it’s now looks close to what I want it too look, you could have a look at the url I sent with this comment. As the search button doesn’t align horizontally with the searchbox so I moved it to the next line but it still doesn’t look good.
The children categories also indent a bit from its parent, that’s the way I like it. May be I put a dot in front of them later on.
The banner image is a photo I took, hope you like the color match. I’ll find a way to put the clickable sitename on the image, this would do away the “home” button on the sidebar.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2005 at 10:50 am →
Hello Stanley: Great job you did with it. I will try to address the issues you noted. I am primarily a Firefox user… so the site should look its best with that brower (or Opera and Netscape), but I can’t ignore Internet Explorer.
I suspect a couple of things. When I look at your site, the fonts are pretty small to me (but still clear and readable). Is it possible you don’t have the typeface Trebuchet MS (standard web font). Thus it it would use the next font in line is Arial. Arial tends to be similiar in size to the primary font, though. Is it possible your default font settings are larger (my Firefox was set with tiny text upon download… I suspect the opposite may be true for others).
Another thing I noted was the invalid CSS added to the style sheet (parse errors and other stuff). There are other fonts specified (Verdana for one which is larger than Trebuchet). The CSS add-ons could be behind the problem. The @import CSS conflciting with the linked one I provide. Here’s what I got:
Line: 784 Context : bodyProperty behavior doesn't exist : url("csshover.htc")Line: 970 Context : a.annotation spanProperty opacity doesn't exist : 0.2Line: 971 Context : a.annotation spanParse Error - -moz-opacity: 0.2;Line: 975Parse Error - opacity=20); } a.annotation:hoverLine: 995 Context : .falbum-cloudParse Error - //display: block;/* Parse CSS comments like so */Line: 1004 Context : Verdana, Arial, Sans-SerifParse Error - :15px; padding-bottom:15px; padding-left:15px; padding-right:15px; line-height:auto; text-align:center; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'Line: 1004 Context : Verdana, Arial, Sans-SerifParse Error - Sans-Serif;Line: 1005 Context : Verdana, Arial, Sans-SerifParse error - Unrecognized : }Line: 1017 Context : a.falbum-tag2Invalid number : font-weight 400px is not a font-weight value : 400pxIf you fix these things, you may find the rest fixes itself. Maybe. I suppose as a last resort, you could access the searchform.php file and edit the submit input value from “Search” to “Go” though this is not the best way to address the problem.
Regarding the second line of the wrapping of long titles in the sidebar menu not being aligned. I think if you add this to your CSS, it’ll fix that.
#sidebar ul li li {
list-style-position : inside;
}
The green dots are available four ways, as three classes, each a bit different for layout reasons. There is…
h3.dot
.dot
.dot2
.dot3
Try one of these and you should get the result you’re looking for. If it’s a dot in front of the list items, you’ll have to do that in the CSS by removing…
list-style-type : none;
Do be sure to add that line to the ul.btn class so you don’t get bullets on the nav buttons.
The included JavaScript file makes the hover/focus charactersistics that work in standards-compliant browsers like Firefox work for IE. With IE, using that JS file, the fields will light up (and stuff), otherwise they just stay gray.
I hope this helps.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2005 at 11:43 am →
Dear Mike,
Thanks a lot really. As you can see I have tried a dozen themes, this is the first time I get coaching/sharing from the designer like this. Really impressed! I will experiment the tweaks you suggested in due course. Great work, keep it up.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2005 at 12:06 pm →
Thanks Stanley. I’m a strong believer in providing support. Feel free to ask more questions if you have them. I’ll try to help where I can.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2005 at 12:38 pm →
Mike,
Just tried adding a dot to the categories listing. There are 2 lines with “list-style-type : none;” within the sidebar section of the CSS file, tried both, I either get a dot in front of “pages”, “categories” heading or nothing. In essense I want to add a dot to the category listings with a dot. Any hint?
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2005 at 1:01 pm →
Just so I understand, is it a bullet that you want in front of the links, or do you want the dot image infront of the categories?
The category heading is
#sidebar ul li h2is the CSS. it looks like this:#sidebar ul li h2 {
margin: 5px 0 0;
padding: 0;
font-size : 100%; /* was 120% */
}
You will likely want to add something like this:
#sidebar ul li h2 {
background : transparent url(images/bb_dot.gif) no-repeat 0 0;
margin: 5px 0 0;
padding: 0;
padding-left : 20px;
font-size : 100%;
}
If that doesn’t work, then, in the
sidebar.phpyou’ll have to addclass="dot", class="dot2", or class="dot3"to the h2 heading in that file. One of those should provide what you need.If it’s a bullet wanted on the link to your categories, you should be able to do it by removing (comment it out) the
list-style-type : noneline and change the color to make it visible.#sidebar ul ul li, #sidebar ul ol li {
list-style-type : none; /* Remove this line */
color: #fafafa; /* Change color to #99cc66; (#fafafa is the background color) */
margin-left : 30px; /* Tweak this maybe, maybe add some padding */
}
To fix the validation errors, though, before trying this stuff. The mark-up problems can affect display changes elsewhere on the page.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 2nd, 2005 at 12:18 pm →
Mike, thanks again. It’s almost there, see it again at my site.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 2nd, 2005 at 2:49 pm →
Outstanding Stanley. Sorry, but I had to look in IE anyway to see what was up. The problem should be an easy one to fix by making adjusting the sidebar’s margin (make it less) or the content’s width. I would suggest making the CSS valid first to see if the fixes solve the problem. Good job so far, though
sfong responds:
Posted: November 2nd, 2005 at 11:07 pm →
Mike,
I have done CSS validation, result posted at my site. I have also turned on “anyone can comment” so you could comment there if you like. This will also test out if the
Akismet plugin is working or not. You know by now my HTML/CSS skill is at dummies level. I have documented my experience and hope that it’ll be useful to you. I’ll let you know here when I have made further changes to your great theme.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2005 at 8:25 am →
I commented a couple of times over there Stanley. Don’t worry, you’ll get it. The whole font-settings thing got you off to a bad start I suspect.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2005 at 11:20 am →
Mike,
I started over again, this time with IE running concurrently such that I can refresh it after each change made to the CSS file. It’s kind of fun and I’ll having a double. Do you want my “bad” CSS file?
sfong responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2005 at 11:41 am →
Mike, I started from bare min change then arrived here as you can see with IE. The green dot is hitting the links heading. I believe I added the padding-left trying to move the heading to the right to avoid the green dot. 7px is the largest I could get, anything further will push it overboard, i.e. sidebar shifted down.
#sidebar ul li h2 {
/* below added */
background : transparent url(images/bb_dot.gif) no-repeat 0 0;
margin: 5px 0 0; /* was 5px */
padding-left: 7px; /* was padding: 0 */
font-size : 100%; /* was 100% */
}
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2005 at 11:48 am →
Hello Stanley,
I’ll pass on the old copy, but what you’re doing sounds like a good plan. It’s what I do because doing a host of changes and then finding out that something’s amiss is a real #%&@!, as you well know.
Another thing you might want to do is download Opera because it’s a player too. The good news, or I seem the believe based on my experiences, is that if you can make a site look good in Opera too, it’ll also render correctly in Mac’s Safari.
I also have Netscape, but I’ve yet to find anything different in its rendering engine from Firefox. Thus, if it renders correctly in FF, then Netscape will be fine too.
One thing you might want to do, just to make life easier, is the download and install the IE View plug-in. That way all you have to do is right-click on a page with Firefox and select IE View and it’ll open that page for you with IE. Saves time.
Good luck. Do keep us posted.
Mike
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2005 at 11:57 am →
Looks like we were posting at the same time.
That is looking a lot better. You’ll probably need like 20px; of padding to clear the dot (though it’s IE so you might want to try some margin-left on that as well, lol
margin : 5px 0 0 20px;[top, right, bottom, left]). The other option, provided that doesn’t work, is to go into sidebar.php and replace the .dot class with .dot2 or.dot3 as they all have slight differences. Maybe… just maybe.Again, though, it seems as if you’re making excellent progress.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2005 at 12:37 pm →
Mike,
Thanks for the encouragement, I think I’ll give up for now. Something also weird is that optioncount=1 is turned on but it doesn’t show?
I think with the image included inside that CSS codes the trouble is that when I adjust the margin and/or padding I noticed that (bare eyes without ruler on the screen) the dot moves relative to the heading. I would have expected that the dot stays independent of my positioning of the heading.
There must be a workaround somehow.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2005 at 2:32 pm →
Hello Stanley,
That’s weird. If it’s a background it should stay put, and you have it set at 0 0… I supposed you give the background some negative margin. Another option, not as good I suspect, is to add it as a page image instead of a background. Then it’ll have to work:
<ul>
<li><img src="images/bb_dot.gif" alt="" height="??" width="??" /> <h2>Heading</h2>
<ul><li> etc...
sfong15 responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2005 at 11:35 pm →
Dear Mike,
Not giving up completely yet. Latest attempt see this http://sfong.net/fun/2005/11/04/tried-this/
Have also tried add img src=??? etc. I didn’t actually get the image but just the shade of it being placed above the heading, I believe using the dot class is the proper way similar to the way used for title of each post.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 4th, 2005 at 3:16 am →
Dear Mike,
Re your advice of using Opera I have in fact done that when ver 8.5 was launched, I still have that installed. See posts about it and other browsers I tried here http://me.sfong.net/category/browsers/
A bit off-topic but it’s true that theme designer like you has to be aware of behaviour of different browsers.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 4th, 2005 at 9:04 am →
This is true. When I did this I tested the design with IE5, IE5.5, IE6, IE6.2, FF 1.0.7 (6 at the time perhaps), Opera 8 Beta, and Netscape 7.2. A friend checked it out with Safari 1.2.4 and Mac IE 5.2. I also ran section through Opera’s voice plug-in which does a great job of screen reader emulation, and tested on Lynx text browser.
I try to leave to stone unturned. It’s difficult, though. There are so many variables out there. Ultimately my goal is not that everyone gets the same thing down to the pixel, but rather an acceptable rendering and graceful degradation on legacy devices.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 9th, 2005 at 5:46 am →
Mike, one other thing, when I click one category under sidebar it gives me a list of posts but images are not displayed within the post until I click that post title to expand it. Is there any way to make displaying of images within posts by default? I think behaviour is the same for month archives.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 9th, 2005 at 1:20 pm →
I’m not really sure, it’s an odd probelm, but it’s not theme-related that I’m certain of. Looking at source on the category and date archives I see the the actual post isn’t there, but I don’t know why. Database-related perhaps? If someone has any info about this, please post a reply here. Thanks.
sfong responds:
Posted: November 11th, 2005 at 12:14 pm →
Mike,
The answer is here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/40924
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 11th, 2005 at 12:37 pm →
Very cool Stanley. And that explains why I don’t have that problem as I altered the whole excerpt thing when I first installed my own blog. I didn’t want just “Continue Reading” but also wanted a user-controllable excerpts and and a title link to the content. I did not, however, include that with the theme because I didn’t feel it was a theme feature (sort of the way I changed the date output to add the “st,” “nd,” “rd,” or “th” to the date). A subjective fix. Sorry I couldn’t help you with it. I knew it wasn’t theme-related and forgetten it was an inherent bug. Maybe I should have offered it in the theme, but I suspected it could cause upgrade issues down the line so I didn’t do it.
sirocco responds:
Posted: November 11th, 2005 at 11:40 pm →
Hi.
I like your theme. Looks very simple and clean.
But I have a problem: I can’t see the banner image and just see the text title in Opera 8.5/Win 2000.
How can I fix it?
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 12th, 2005 at 1:17 am →
Using Firefox I got the same thing. The CSS is avialble, the images are not. The CSS was calling for the images, I could see them in under the Media tab when viewing Page Info in Firefox. The problem so much as I could tell is that either the permissions are set on the folder making it inaccessible, or the images have not been uploaded to the server and the CSS is trying to access an empty directory.
Looking for the banner directly, using this path…
http://sirocco.pe.kr/blog/wp-content/themes/beastblog/images/bb_banner.jpg
I got a 503 error, Forbidden. That could be an empty directory issue.
EDIT: I see you got ‘em now. Awesome
Looks good Sirocco!
sirocco responds:
Posted: November 12th, 2005 at 3:55 am →
Thank you for advice, Mike.
After re-installed Opera, I found it fixed. But actually don’t figure out what happened.
Maybe the permission problem? During Opera have a trouble, It worked well in IE.
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 12th, 2005 at 6:29 am →
You are very welcome, but it is an odd situation you had. Especially if it worked in IE. Perhaps it was a MIME type issue or some odd thing like that. I’m really puzzled. I’m really glad it worked out, though!
sirocco responds:
Posted: November 12th, 2005 at 10:12 am →
Well, can it be better that changing ‘bb_banner.jpg’ to ‘bb_banner.png’ ?
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 12th, 2005 at 12:06 pm →
As long as the PNG file is exported in that format, that’d be fine. Just don’t use the PNG supplied unless you export it becuase the native, unflatted image would be far too large. Do remember to modify the CSS, under
#headerimg h1 a spanchangebackground : url(images/bb_banner.jpg) no-repeat top center;tobackground : url(images/bb_banner.png) no-repeat top center;and it should be fine.Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: November 12th, 2005 at 8:17 pm →
WebtrafficJunkie responds:
Posted: November 17th, 2005 at 9:44 pm →
I love your theme. It is so clean and simple. I am seriously considering it for my new page when I finish!
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Darlene responds:
Posted: December 11th, 2005 at 7:45 pm →
Hi there! Love the theme! One issue that I have not seen addressed here (so perhaps I am alone in having this issue) is that in IE, the sidebar is not starting until the main content is completed.
It works ok in Firefox but not IE. Any suggestions? The site can be seen at http://www.romyandjacob.com/blog - thanks!
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: December 11th, 2005 at 8:16 pm →
Thanks Darlene. Nice work with it. The dropping sidebar in IE is due to a widthset being too wide for a given area. You might want to make the content are narrower in the CSS, say 5px at a time, until it fixes the issue.
.narrowcolumn {
float: left;
padding: 0 0 20px 45px;
margin: 0px 0 0;
width: 450px; /* This measurement! Try 445px, 440px, etc until it pops back into place. */
}
Darlene, please put my name/link back on the footer as it was. That is the only real requirement I have. Thank you.
Mike
Darlene responds:
Posted: December 22nd, 2005 at 2:11 pm →
Hi Mike!
I didn’t realize the credit had been removed from the footer as I didn’t do the actual work (and therefore can’t take credit for that work), but am working on having it put back in ASAP! My apologies.
Thanks for the info! Sorry I didn’t check back in here earlier - you’d save me so much time
I just scanned a more recent post - you’d like to find some design work? Do touch base with me - I outsource all the design work that I require…
Oh - and being found by others (Re: chickletization) - did you know that a “blogroll” is not search engine friendly quite often? So if you have other people linking to your blog from theirs via a blogroll, you are not receiving proper search engine credit for that link.
Darlene
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: December 22nd, 2005 at 3:05 pm →
Hello Darlene,
Thank you so much. Do let me know if the IE problem is corrected. I sure hope so. Thank you for attending to that credit link issue. It is much appreciated.
Design work? Oh, yeah, gotta have it
I see in my inbox there is an email from you so I will discuss this with you in more detail by that means.
I did know that about the blogroll. Assuming that the relation is “nofollow” otherwise it does get indexed with the rest of the site. The footer seems to produce good results, it is permanently on the page and a straight non-relational link. I use Google to find installations so I can check them out to see what cool things people have done, then I show links to them.
Matt Kincaid responds:
Posted: January 26th, 2006 at 11:19 am →
Thanks for this great theme. I really appreciate the accessibility functions, and how nicely it all works. I hope to learn some more about accessible websites so that my posts are just as nicely formatted as your theme is.
I had some problems with IE visitors seeing the navigation bar dropping below the rest of the content like someone else had mentioned in the comments, but resizing the narrow column didn’t help. I’m under the impression the problem is the expanding box bug with IE/CSS. The text that isn’t wrapping around is right above the search field. It only happened under bizarre circumstances on other websites when I had IE’s zoom at it’s highest setting. On my site though, because my site name is so long it happened on the default settings. I couldn’t figure out why the text wasn’t wrapping, I saw nothing suspicious in the CSS file. I changed the search.php to just be my first name and that fixed most pages. I also had this habit of throwing large photos in some posts that were larger then the narrow column field which would also cause the sidebar to wrap around. I added a overflow:hidden to narrow column to fix that and haven’t seen any problem since.
Thanks again!
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: January 26th, 2006 at 11:34 am →
Thanks for the comments Matt. We found on another blog that reducing the font-size from 62.5% to 58.5% and that worked well without having too much of an effect on the default font size. Overflow hidden was a good idea.
By the way, I really like what you did with the theme, Matt. Good job!
hypotheken responds:
Posted: February 6th, 2006 at 5:57 am →
Hi, I think you are totally right. Great! -
Susan.
adobual responds:
Posted: February 6th, 2006 at 1:57 pm →
I was searching the web and found your entry. I really like your site and found it worth while reading through the posts. I am looking to publish a comprehensive site reviewing many different articles and blog.
Jessica responds:
Posted: February 20th, 2006 at 7:05 pm →
Fabulous theme. I’ve tweaked it and am using it on http://www.cranky-mama.com. Thanks!
TreeFrog responds:
Posted: February 21st, 2006 at 11:37 pm →
Terrific Blog you have. Peace Out.
TreeFrog
Cathryn responds:
Posted: March 3rd, 2006 at 1:38 am →
nice nice!
Monroe responds:
Posted: March 3rd, 2006 at 6:12 pm →
Wow. Glad I came across this blog.
JiggyWittit responds:
Posted: March 6th, 2006 at 5:52 am →
Kewl blog you got goin on up here.
Peace, JiggyWittit
No Keyword Here responds:
Posted: March 22nd, 2006 at 9:02 pm →
Personally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing so can trigger spam catchers if the user has that plugin activated, whereas a single link will not.