Serendipity Forums

Everything looks fine from FIREFOX, but when I use IE the entries vary with boldness and size and in some cases the COMMENTS and COMMENT footer go VERY BIG.

I find the editor sometimes flakey and wonder if that could be it?

It appears that your page and your stylesheet have different class names for the comment title. In your page (entries.tpl or comments.tpl) you have serendipity_commentsTitle, whereas your stylesheet has serendipity_commentTitle.

Errors like these cause all sorts of unpredictable results, so I would suggest you error check your template files and stylesheet first. Hopefully this will fix the problem.

I began with your theme CARL GREEN just because it had two sidebars.
The style CSS file seemed to be messy when I began, which I have subsequently messed up further, bad! I looked at the CARL CONTEST theme and that style file is perfectly dress right dressed. Can I type in my own comments anywhere outside of {} those?

I think I want to start over.
It took most of a month to figure this all out but I think I could change themes now and knock it out in a day.

If I change themes do the entries and comments stick?
If I pick a theme with only one sidebar, is it just a matter of copying the one and then pasting it down a spell and putting a LEFT in instead of RIGHT?

I dont want to start my own, I learn better when I can see all the code commands already there.

What does that YES and NO mean on themes, I have shied away from using one that says NO.

thanx

RJ

Hi rj!

I'm sure you'll be able to modify themes now, so I just answer your questions:

If I change themes do the entries and comments stick?

Entries/Comments are saved in the database, so changing your theme will not change any of the database information. All your entries will be preserved!

If I pick a theme with only one sidebar, is it just a matter of copying the one and then pasting it down a spell and putting a LEFT in instead of RIGHT?

Exactly, you just usually put the same sidebar into the location by pasting the code and changing left to right.

What does that YES and NO mean on themes, I have shied away from using one that says NO.

What do you mean with that?

Best regards,
Garvin

It indicates whether the theme includes a CSS file for the Admin section. If the theme doesn't style Admin (which can only be used to change colors and other CSS attributes, not full Smarty parsing like the blog itself), then it gets the big NO. Those themes are still perfectly usable for the main blog, however.