This is SO not my area of expertise, but I got the wordpress thing all set up on my server, added the photopress template. I've figured out how to make some changes to the header & navbar, but for some reason when I try to modify the rest (I guess I'm talking about the body, or the content, or the wrap ....gaaaaah!) I get the top and bottom of the (wrap?) border right but the vertical lines on the sides get all screwed up.

I know going into the weekend a lot of people are busy, but if anyone has a minute or two to help out I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

The fixed border was not flexible enough for me, I changed the width of the theme to something around 900px. So I deleted all the border image stuff from the css. Then I added an additional DIV around the Content-Div in all the template files. This new div I marked up in the css-file with my blog-width and a 1px border. Voila, a flexible border around all the content appears.

Michael


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http://www.yvonne-zemke.de/blog

I like what you've done with yours....I don't know that I understand what you've done, but I like it

seriously, I'm css-impaired...

Perhaps because of my bad english

Second try:
1. In every template file (index.php and all the others) I added a div (<div id="articles"> as an outside wrapper for all the content between header and footer. Don't forget to close the div.

2. In the css I changed the width of wrapper, header, navbar, articles, content, footer and so on - the width of my blog is 950px and the content 830px because I like pictures LARGE. Now the old border is messed up.

3. I deleted the old border-gifs from the css (content.gif, contenttop.gif, contentbot.gif).

4. Changed the css once more:

Old:
#content {
width: 640px;
margin: 0px auto 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

New:
#content { width: 830px;
margin: 0px auto 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;}
#articles{ width: 950px;
margin: 0px auto 0px;
padding: 20px 0px 0px 0px;
border: 1px solid #000;}

I'm not very talented explaing this . If you have a test version online send me a pm and I'll review your css.

Michael

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I'm NOT css impaired and that still gave me a headache. lol

Pick a template that looks like what you want yours to look like. It's the simplest way! haha

That's a contradiction...


Photopress is a wonderful template with only one big drawback: not wide enough. There is only one similar Template with one column. But this isn't free like photopress and too many photographers are using it - far away from being individual .

Actually...it's a joke. Don't worry, they don't have those in Germany, I understand.



Photopress is an average template at best. We just found one the other day called FallSeason that is an EXCELLENT template. Huge photos, looks like that paid PhotographersTemplate but a) free and b) FREE. lol

There are rumours that someone found a joke under his bed last year in germany. But there is no evidence.



We've had FallSeason before, nice template. We switched because it has two columns. But you make me think about customizing it...

That joke was deported. It didn't have a visa for travel. Or for humor.

I think the problem was I was adjusting the width parameters in the css, but not the border .gif files in the wp-theme-image folder. thanks for the help!! (and the laughs!)

A little off topic. I have been trying to find a new template to create my blog site out of. Where do you all look for your templates? I don't mind paying a little for a good template

Here is a css modified mistylook on the Wordpress server.

Tom Schmidt Photography

Tom and Jerry Wedding Photographers

It is by Sadish who also made the FallSeason theme