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mwdewitt

  • jQuery, Simple Lightbox, & WordPress

    Yeah, I have the most recent WordPress release (v 3.4.1) and I like Simple Lightbox because the developers are really nice, but I shall give jQuery Colorbox a try. Thanks for the tip!
    Comment by mwdewitt July 2012 permalink
  • Image Placement

    Yeah, I am not even sure if I would consider myself a coder yet. Haha! I get caught up by the simplest things and I do not seem to learn from my mistakes (when it comes to coding). I have actually been meaning to add that 14 pixels of margin to the …
    Comment by mwdewitt July 2012 permalink
  • Image Placement

    Weirdness. I am using Mozilla Firefox.
    Comment by mwdewitt July 2012 permalink
  • WordPress Page Name & Favicon

    I downloaded the plugin and changed the name. Thanks for the tip!
    Comment by mwdewitt July 2012 permalink
  • WordPress Page Name & Favicon

    Thanks. I cleared my cache and I can now see the moth silhouette as well. Here is the code in my header.php that generates the title:
    Comment by mwdewitt July 2012 permalink
  • Website Design / Feedback Please

    Okay, I did not want to bump this thread until I had the "Feel Good Candy" page somewhat done, here. So, what do you think? And any help with how I should present the characters would be muchly appreciated. Also, under "The Graphic No…
    Comment by mwdewitt May 2012 permalink
  • Recognizing CSS Stylesheets

    I do not understand the above code. In my "header.php" file, I believe it calls the current CSS stylesheet with this bit of code:
    Comment by mwdewitt May 2012 permalink
  • Recognizing CSS Stylesheets

    Basically, I was going to make a new HTML page with a fresh CSS stylesheet in WordPress. I have made a new HTML page before, but since it involved so little CSS, I just had the CSS in the HTML code. This time I want to do it right (by calling the ne…
    Comment by mwdewitt May 2012 permalink
  • Website Design / Feedback Please

    I think I know what I am going to do. I am going to make a completely separate CSS stylesheet for the "Feel Good Candy" page, here. The only problem is: I do not know how to do this. I know how to make a new CSS stylesheet in WordPress, bu…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Website Design / Feedback Please

    I agree with you on the font. I currently have it set to: body { font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; } I guess I could use the "font" tag and change it up a bit in particular areas. The font I wou…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Current Navigation Highlighting

    @Senff, you are a god among men. You helped me when I first started building this website and now you are here to finish it off. Thank you so much for your wonderful and direct help! I actually was reading up on doing roll-overs and I noticed that y…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Current Navigation Highlighting

    Bump. I highly apologize for bumping this thread so many times. But it is almost solved! My question is: is the answer so obvious that people are not answering me? Or is it so difficult and that is why only several people have helped me out thus far…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Website Design / Feedback Please

    Okay, I did a quick mock-up of what I am sort of envisioning from what @yashrg suggested, here. This would happen on roll-over of the image. A text bubble would slide out from underneath the image or it can be to the side of the image. That way, the…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Current Navigation Highlighting

    Thank you, @Senff. That sort of fixes it. Now, we need to figure out how to make it highlight a menu option when you roll-over the word. What you gave me is definitely a step in the right direction. Currently, if you select either sub-menu, the menu…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Current Navigation Highlighting

    Thank you for your help, @bryanfarris, but sorry, it did not work. It still highlights everything if I select "Feel Good Candy" and it only highlights "Gloom" when I select that. Sigh. I know there has got to be some way to do th…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Current Navigation Highlighting

    Bump, once again. You guys do not know how much I hate bumping my material, but this is literally the last thing I need to do on this website to make it complete (apart from redesigning one of the pages). I am sure it is a simple fix, but I do not k…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Website Design / Feedback Please

    @amyth91: Thank you! That is the general idea, but how do I do it with text, instead of an image? Also, I am not using unordered lists. Sorry, I am pretty new to web programming, so sometimes people have to spell it out for me. Thank you in advance …
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  • Website Design / Feedback Please

    If you know of a good tutorial on how to do that, I would be more than happy to go that route.
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Space from sticky footer?

    I actually have the same problem on the website I am currently working on, here. I found that if I take away the added margin on one of the objects, it puts everything back to normal in my own browser, but someone with Opera piped up and said that m…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Picture Aligned Left With Text Beside It

    That works! Awesome sauce. Thank you. Now I just need to figure out how to give the quote a little more style. Thank you so much, @wolfcry911.
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Picture Aligned Left With Text Beside It

    I did some searching. Like @wolfcry911 said, WordPress placed an alignLeft class, when you can just simply say "align='left'" instead. Now, I have another question. I wanted to add 14 pixels of margin on the right of the image, s…
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  • Sticky Footer Wonkiness

    I fixed it for the most part. I took the working code from "Minter Tweed" and copy and pasted the various bits into "M.W.DeWitt." Some of the blocks are too close together, but the footer now works. It sticks to the bottom. Edit…
    Comment by mwdewitt April 2012 permalink
  • Current Navigation Highlighting

    Bump. I hate bumping, but I have no clue how to fix this and this entry has been off of the first page for quite some time. View the post above this to see my progress and error report. Thank you to anyone who can help me! Apologies for the bump.
    Comment by mwdewitt March 2012 permalink
  • Box-Shadow Problems

    @karlpcrowley: Thank you for the kind words. If you would like to see my other thread, please go here. @noahgelman: Thank you! That fixed it. Although I think the overflow property was there for the sticky footer, but the footer still seems to be w…
    Comment by mwdewitt March 2012 permalink
  • Current Navigation Highlighting

    Okay, I placed that code in there, but the two menu items are both highlighted when you select one of them. On the bright side, "GRAPHIC NOVELS AND WRITTEN NOVELLAS" is now highlighted when you select a sub-menu. Visit here to see what I m…
    Comment by mwdewitt February 2012 permalink
  • Somethings gone terribly wrong, what do I do?

    In "Digging Into WordPress" by Chris Coyier, he goes over some tactics to make it a little more difficult for hackers to break into your website. Also, it's a very good read for WordPress entrepreneurs.
    Comment by mwdewitt February 2012 permalink
  • Somethings gone terribly wrong, what do I do?

    This is why it is always good practice to keep recent back-ups of your WordPress websites if at all possible.
    Comment by mwdewitt February 2012 permalink
  • Matching CafePress To WordPress

    So, @31M1K97, why is your code not doing that? I just ask this in general curiosity, because the "cafepressFooter" is still hiding behind my footer and the "footer-bg.png" is raised above like you say the "cafepressFooter&qu…
    Comment by mwdewitt January 2012 permalink
  • NEW WEBSITE

    I really like the deal that they have with "Digging into WordPress" where you get a new PDF of the most current version every time they update WordPress, which happens about once a month, so you know you are reading up-to-date information.…
    Comment by mwdewitt January 2012 permalink
  • NEW WEBSITE

    Well, by choosing WordPress, I would say you are probably on the right forum. People in these parts seem to be a little WordPress crazy, myself included. There actually is a guide for WordPress written by Chris Coyier himself. Here is a link to the …
    Comment by mwdewitt January 2012 permalink