i'm making a template!

[dannisnokiller]

inspired by many other templates, i have decided to make my own.

however, i need some help.

1.) i have mouseover events for links, but i want to ignore the mouseover for the main images

also it's not valid xhtml yet, i'm having problems with some of the tags, if you guys could help that would be great.


right now i only have the image template file, i'm using the files from another template for the browse page.


also, any suggestions would be rad. and would anyone consider using this once i'm done?

i'm using a few add ons, advanced stats, overlib, rating, and thumbnails.

http://www.dannisnokiller.com


*i'm calling this 'cremesicle'

[dannisnokiller]

i'm coming along pretty good, i have all 3 pages up now.


i'm having 3 problems.

1.) still havent figured out how to ignore the a:hover event for the image...
2.) the browse page has a few bugs? when i click on a category the footer (currently viewing category page no. 1 [1]) doesn't display right, but when i click a date (currently viewing september archives page no. 1 [1]) it looks just fine??
3.) still haven't validated the documents, i'm thinking i'm going to have a few problems with that.

to be done:
i need to change the overlib colors to match the site, and recolor the stars.

if you have anything to say - let me know.. if anyone is interested in me uploading this to pixelpost.org let me know aswell.

http://www.dannisnokiller.com

[blinking8s]

start here
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.dannisnokiller.com/

[dannisnokiller]

start here
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.dannisnokiller.com/
got it down to 4 errors. i need to change the entire css for it to work, aparently i can't use h1 tags where i have them ect.

ugh.

down to 2 errors, and i cant for the life of me find the problem, they are withing the <image_comments> and <image_notes> tags

any ideas?

[blinking8s]

ignore those, we can figure out that later, it shouldnt cause anything to go wrong with display

now with css, you can set

divtitle img {

and set the rollover state to be different on the image that the a tags

like i have my image in its own div


#img_box img {
vertical-align:middle;
border:0;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

with no hover attribute applied, and se tthe hover attributes to the dives containing my text links

[dannisnokiller]

ignore those, we can figure out that later, it shouldnt cause anything to go wrong with display

now with css, you can set

divtitle img {

and set the rollover state to be different on the image that the a tags

like i have my image in its own div


#img_box img {
vertical-align:middle;
border:0;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

with no hover attribute applied, and se tthe hover attributes to the dives containing my text links
thanks! however i already found another way to fix it.

i made a new css section (not sure what the tecnical name for it is) called 'links' and for all the links i wanted the bold underline on i did class="links"

i've got all the validation done minus those 2 errors that thankfully you said i could ingore :) and have uploaded it to pixelpost.org - hopefully i did everything right.

-danN

[blinking8s]

cool, yes there are many ways, glad you figured it out

we'll get those two fixed also, i just dont really have time to look into whats causing them right now, got Photoshop open and about 400 photos to have edited and toned by morning...lol

[dannisnokiller]

i fixed the one error, simply by adding <IMAGE_NOTES_CLEAN>. so i've only got the one error now! hah.

[Joe[y]]

header tags are good if you worry about a page with lots of headings. but say you're only using h1... you might as well make your own class such as 'title' - this gives you much more flexibility.

[dannisnokiller]

i've made some minor changes to the template - i have them uploaded on my server; however since i'm getting invalid xhtml i'm not going to upload it to pixelpost until i get that resolved.

*added a colon to the Powered by:
*added notes to the about template so user can easily add info
*tried to implement paged archive; is extremely buggy.

for some reason paged archive isn't working out for me. perhaps some insight? i can't get the categorys to work on paged archive, right now i just have the dates, and it seems to be working, but most of my xhtml errors are coming from that.

note declarations are wrong; i'm not sure the exact way to add notes, i learned before w3c was popular - i use <bang----comment----> ?

-danN

[dannisnokiller]

UPDATED!

-changed overLIB hover color to match the theme
-fixed the browse page
-made the about page easier to update.

[blinking8s]

coolness

[dannisnokiller]

how many images are on each page of the paged archive?

if > 50, can i make it = 50?

-thanks

[pearweed]

I have no idea if I've posted this in the proper area of the forum or not, so forgive my ingnorance, please.

I'm using pixelpost 1.6.0 version and I used the addon to show the Most Commented images.

Then, I ran across the addon of meta categories where I can display all of the nifty stats. I tweaked it for the Simple Visions theme I'm using and it's working fine except for one little bug I hadn't noticed on the Most Commented addon which I now realize has the same little bug.

The Most Commented addon give the Title of the image and the number of comments next to the thumbs. However, when I viewed the stats from the meta categories addon which depends entirely on the thumb and the stats are given on mouseover, that's when I noticed that if the title of the post had an apostrophe in it, the stats wouldn't display.

I still have the meta categories addon online, but never linked it because of the bug. It's not properly displaying at the moment because I'd have to remove the Most Commented addon because it's being picked up by the meta categories addon and places it on the page before all the other stats. That's not a problem. I realize to use the meta categories, they would display properly if I removed that addon, but because of the bug, I'm sticking with the Most Commented addon in lieu of the meta categories addon.

If you look at the Most Commented page of my site and hover over the thumb and compare it to the title next to the thumb, you'll see the info doesn't display past the apostrophe in the title.

Here's the Most Commented page:

http://www.pearweed.net/index.php?x=most

Does anyone have a fix for this that wouldn't involve not using an apostrophe in a title so I could remove the Most Commented addon and go with the meta category addon?

Thank you in advance,

Sherri

[jaywilliams]

The addon creator needs to add htmlspecialchars() to the title before it displays it, that way you won't have the apostrophe problem.

Perhaps you could contact the author and see if they can update the addon.

[pearweed]

Jay,

I appreciate the response. I guess I didn't do it right because when I altered the meta category addon page and uploaded it, my site went down. So, I deleted the addon page from the server and the site came back. I did go back to the original download I had saved, uploaded it to the server and all my stats are back. Since they're still not showing correctly because of the bug I don't have a link for the general public to view, but I can follow the stats myself. Thanks again. I may contact the author of the addon as you suggested.

[Dkozikowski]

Post the addon code here, I'll help apply the fix.

You should be able to use Pixelpost's pullout() function also.