Modified 235 skin...

[shamhead]

Hello all,
Pixelpost is fantastic and everything was soo easy to setup. I've spent a few hours modifying a already existing template available on the downloads page called 235 skin which I really liked, this is in preparation for my Nikon D200 which should arrive in the next two days!

My version can be viewed here:
http://www.shamhead.com/pixelpost

http://www.shamhead.com/forum/pixelpost.jpg

Now to get to this stage was a hideous case of trial and error with css, the site looks and works exactly the way I want it to, but I just wanted to ask whether or not I should be concerned about this!?...

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shamhead.com%2Fpixelpos t&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

and this...

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shamhead.com%2Fpixe lpost%2Ftemplates%2Fshamhead%2Fstyle.css&usermedium=all

I mean, if it all works ok, does it really matter if the site chucks up all these errors? And if it does indeed matter I dont suppose any guru out there can guide me in correcting them bearing in mind I'm slightly simple ;)

Cheers,
Ian

ps. First post!

[DikkieBurger]

Set your doctype to xhtml 1.0 transitional and fix these 2 errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shamhead.com%2Fpixelpos t%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=XHTML+1.0+Transitional

[shamhead]

Thanks for that DIkkieBurger, I think I've got that bit sorted, Im still getting an error on the page though...

required attribute "alt" not specified.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shamhead.com%2Fpixelpos t%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=XHTML+1.0+Transitional

I take it the alt tag is for alternative text should the image not load? What would be the code to fix this?

[shamhead]

ah ha! got it, just the CSS to work my way through now ....

[blinking8s]

i dig it,havent looked at the code, but its working fine for me. nice to see a new template, should post it for download!

[ranko]

wow, looks great!

[jdleung]

nice and clean design.:)

[GeoS]

Simple but with big potential - good work.

[shamhead]

Thanks for the feedback, nice to know it comes across well. I'd stick it up for download but so little has been changed from the 235 skin (Border width, bit of text and colours) that I'd feel like Im cheating. Also the CSS still dosen't Validate but to tell you the truth I dont really care since it seems to work on all the browsers I've tested it on, and my D200 arrived today so I'm off to do the important bit... take the pictures!

cheers,
Ian

[shamhead]

Hello again,
seems there is still an error with my XHTML validation...

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shamhead.com%2Fpixelpos t%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

It seems to happen when I write some text in the Image info when uploading an image, do any of you guru's out there know how to fix this particular problem?

[codepoit]

according to what the error says, you can't have a paragraph tag inside a span class element...not sure if there is any "fix" for that, other than not using a paragraph tag.

[shamhead]

ahh, yes noticed that codepoit. But it seems to be (unless im mistaken) the pixelpost script which is adding the Paragraph tag to my page as I entered the image info in the admin section when uploading the image...

would anyone know how to fix it so it dosen't generate the <p> tags when I write the details and upload the image? If not, no worries, I can live with it!