It’s perfectly ok saying “Valid XHTML and CSS” but it may be nice to say that it is pretty stuffed in all older browsers. An example is IE6 and some of the old Mac browser versions. I am in no way dissing these themes though. What I have been looking for are specifically REALLY nice WordPress themes…. Here is one of them.

Catastrophe.

Absolutely lovely in the fact it is very well designed and will suit a LOT of uses. But it is certainly ‘Catastrophic’ if you view it in IE6.

Let me show you the screenshots of what I am talking about:

'Catastrophe' Theme in older Browsers eg IE6

1024 Crambots  - In the defense of ‘Whitespace’

The idea, when I started this template was to create a site that looks as clean as possible and easy to navigate. A pet hate when landing on anyones blog or website is #1. Google ads all over… a lot give them too much priority, you have limited control over what is displayed, and some flash banners are causing problems on peoples machines. #2 Another pet hate is lack of typographical spacing!…. margins, indents, paddings anyone?

While the typical rule of thumb is to create web spaces that are viewable on 1024 resolution, more and more are using it as license to CRAM pack the 1024 width with as many tool bars as technically possible. A lot of bloggers hunt down any and all bits of info and gadgets as possible to fill that apparently unbearable blank space ( or ‘Whitespace’ in design terms). I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my pages interrupted by a flashy ‘Cycling hobby singles / dating club’ banner or text ads worded in bad English due to either lack of space to get the point across in a Google ad or bad Chinese or Indian translation. More »

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Have you REALLY tried to manipulate Comments.php in WordPress.

Half the code is ‘arse about tit’ – I am a ‘Yorkshire Bird’ so I am allowed to say that..Ever heard the jokes about the one most likely to stand up at an MS conference and say ‘B**locks’ just at the right moment that everyone else is thinking it?

All the time I am trying to write this, my partner is getting frustrated that he has to re-listed his item on trademe (Kiwi Ebay attempt) but  as is happening more and more frequently the Trademe site has ballsed up in mid flight. Suprise suprise, it appears that bad management deemed to use MS Server 2008 ed. lol. Did they not know that most of even the biggest financial centers in the world wouldn’t touch it with a 1000ft barge pole? At least Trademe appear to be self aware of this given the effort put into the error page with a big blue bird pooping ‘WHOOPS’

… back on topic…. erm …

oh yes.. The code is back to front and upside down. Why on earth should I have to More »

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As you can see on this website, I am using the sociable plugin.

There are NUMEROUS fixes that need to be made to make it validate W3C XHTML.

Heres ONE:
When you are wanting to display the sociable items on the index page where it will be repeated on every post for the same page. Validation result returns that it already has the ID’s specified.

CSS Basics dictate that you only use ‘ID’ ONCE on a page
‘CLASS’ is the re-usable css.

Go to the plugin sociable directory and find “sociable.php”

Edit the PHP file:
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You may have seen that I am currently plugging in a few features to the site such as the gallery banner on the index page (will be on others) and the nice popup overlay.

The whole thing is starting to look a bit tidier…. At the moment it is 100% CSS and XHTML Validated with zero warnings and working perfectly in IE6, Firefox 1 etc etc.
………. FOR NOW

I will come back later to sort out the banner and post panels…

I have never met a plugin, widget or JQuery feature that validates and works on ALL browsers out of the box yet…… that includes from Google in some cases!

Validation is a never ending task… good job I love it then isnt it.