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From: Ed Mullen on 21 May 2010 13:02
Steve wrote:
>
> So I made my first CSS blog theme
> http://bundergroundrailroad.org/blog/
> Any ideas what I am not doing?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve

1. You're not setting a sensible font size. A body font size of 90% is
bad. And your layout is not fluid. Here's what your site looks like
when I increase text size enough so I can actually read the page:

http://edmullen.net/temp/cap0521a.jpg

2. You're not using a proper sig delimiter.

http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz_sigtag.php

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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 21 May 2010 14:21
Ed Mullen wrote:

> 2. You're not using a proper sig delimiter.
>
> http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz_sigtag.php

They cannot; they are using Google Groups. And the delimiter is not
mandatory. Even what it may delimit or not varies in opinion, as you will
see shortly.


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From: Steve on 21 May 2010 17:32
On May 21, 12:27 pm, Gus Richter <gusrich...(a)netscape.net> wrote:

> You have a duplication of stylesheet caused, I believe, by you trying to
> remove the embedded stylesheet call with the html comment tags instead
> of the css comment tags within the style attribute (or alternately by
> placing the html comment tags outside of the style attribute). [There
> was another reason for those html comments inside the style attribute,
> but that was ages ago, no longer valid and should not be used that way.]

I have to say that this thread is pleasantly surprisingly interesting
beyond just solving a problem.

I'm not familiar with word press internals. Not being able to find a
book on how to make blog themes I followed an old tutorial I found on
the internet.

I'm guessing I should remove this from my index.php:

<style type = "text/css" media = "screen">
<!-- @import url(<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url');?>); -->
</style>

( didn't help the spacing issue, but I am glad to know about it )



>
> Having resolved down to only one stylesheet, then you can play around
> with your "Vertical Centering" request. You can look into trying the
> possibilities described in:
>
>    <http://www.student.oulu.fi/~laurirai/www/css/middle/>

I'll try this when I get home thanks.

>
> Another thing of concern is that of your linked (blog) document's lack
> of doctype which puts the browsers into Quircks Mode and messing up the
> results for different browsers. Doesn't WordPress provide any for your
> xhtml document? I recommend using the Strict Doctype.

Like I wrote, this thread is giving a good education.

Do you mean something like this?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-GB">


I'm brand new to all of this, I will learn more, but what is a doctype
or xhtml, why do they matter?

Steve


From: Ed Mullen on 21 May 2010 21:21
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Ed Mullen wrote:
>
>> 2. You're not using a proper sig delimiter.
>>
>> http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz_sigtag.php
>
> They cannot; they are using Google Groups. And the delimiter is not
> mandatory. Even what it may delimit or not varies in opinion, as you will
> see shortly.
>
>
> PointedEars

I know. But you still aren't using a well-formed signature.

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http://edmullen.net
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From: Steve on 21 May 2010 21:23
On May 20, 11:00 pm, Jeff Thies <jeff_th...(a)att.net> wrote:
>    I have no problem with absolutely positioning stuff when it is
> useful, but here there is no reason for it on the wrapper and it is
> working against you to boot. You can simply set margins. As far as
> having no spacing on the bottom, you can either add some bottom margin
> to the wrapper or simply add bottom padding to the body.

Removed. Thanks
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