Monday Edition
Posted by RazorsKissJan 24
Announcements:
WordPress junkies: I have a problem. See, when someone on 800 x 600 stops by – the center block is chopped off by the right sidebar. How do I fix this?
Yes, my brother’s graphics rock. Just saying.
Vox Apologia II was a BLAST. Thanks everyone, for your entries, and thank you, everyone who read it. I hope it was edifying, encouraging, and exhortational. (Yay for alliteration!)
Pastors:
Sign up on the Mark D. Roberts blogging pastors list.
Discovered:
Thinking Christian. Read this blog. It rocks.
Welcomes:
To the Aggregator:
Apologetics roundup:
Eric from Evangelical Underground discusses Finding A Niche Within A Niche – he gives us his take on “dos and don’ts” of Evangelical blogging. It’s a good read. I picked up a good perspective on what I’m doing, and not doing from it.
Every Thought Captive reviews Love God With All YourMind, by J.P. Moreland. Also, he is addressing the New Atlantis Stem Cell Symposium, here, and here.
Dory, from Wittenberg Gate issues a challenge, in her This and That post: “Go visit a non-Christian blog today and sprinkle some salt in their comments section.” So… what are you waiting for?
She also examines the issue of Broken Leaders and Second Chances” in a post today.
AllThings2All has a really cool feature called “SideBlog” – she’s using it for announcements, and such. Cool ‘lil tool. I’ll use it myself – once I find some time 😀
EXCELLENT discourse concerning the “challenge” issued by Andrew, of Weapons of Warfare, in the comments of that entry. Funky Dung did, indeed, meet the challenge, as I had suggested, and superbly. Kudos to both of you for such a wonderfully rich discussion of the topics at hand. THAT was what I was envisioning between us, when I was thinking about putting the Aggregator together. Thank you very much for brightening my evening.
The Minor Prophet discusses whether we should give to “beggars” on the side of the road. Interesting entry.
Updates:
Miscellany:
Parableman reviews the Philosopher’s Carnival
Top ten reasons to read Christian History. (HT: Smart Christian
21st Century Reformation discusses a Radical Change in our Christian Practice
Letters From Babylon muses on Massachusetts.
A Slice of the Neighborhood:
I’d like to mention “Blogcorner Preacher“. He consistently has thoughtful, scriptural pieces up – and they’re pretty deep stuff.
His name is John Luke Rich, a self-described “struggling” Christian. He calls his blog a way of “evangelizing on the internet”. Well, if anyone stops by, they are sure to stop and read – and think some deep thoughts. I encourage you to check out his blog.
9 comments
Comment by Andrew on January 24, 2005 at 11:50 pm
Your CSS for the right column:
#links {
position: absolute;
right:5px;
padding:10px;
top:100px;
width:180px;
}
Absolute positioning forces a div to exist in the same place all the time, relative to the browser window. Try relative positioning instead, which should align it relative to the div that contains the links div. But I’m not sure if that alone will make it works; I’d have to have the code and fiddle with it a bit. Absolute/relative positioning tends to irritate me when I’m trying to make it work, which is why I use floats on my layout.
Let me know if that’s helpful at all. Also, what build of WP are you using?
Comment by RazorsKiss on January 24, 2005 at 11:54 pm
WP 1.2.2
I’m gonna seriously have to brush up on CSS.
I haven’t messed with “location via CSS” in so, so long.
styling? Yeah. Positioning? Oh, but no.
Here’s another one: I can send trackbacks, but not receive. Any idea why that happens?
Comment by Andrew on January 25, 2005 at 12:05 am
I noticed that you didn’t get a trackback I sent you…
This might have something to do with the spam attackers you’re using. I remember reading something that suggested that they hurt trackbackss, since trackbacks don’t contain email addresses. Your best bet for that would be asking around at the WP support forums.
Positioning with CSS is hard, but it’s better than relying on tables. You might try picking up a good 3-column layout designed for WP, then modifying it and adding back in all your styling. That would take some work, though.
Comment by Dave on January 25, 2005 at 5:45 am
Sorry, but I get that cut off problem with the links column and I am running in 1024X768
Comment by Dave on January 25, 2005 at 5:46 am
Oh, and I don’t get when I am on a seperate post page: https://razorskiss.net/wp/index.php?p=76 as opposed to https://razorskiss.net/wp/
Comment by Doug on January 25, 2005 at 8:54 am
The template is essentially the same for an individual post as it is for the main page. When I look at an individual post that does not have any large pictures in it, the page looks fine. I avoid large pics myself and have never noticed this on my site. I wonder if the pics on that one post are causing the center div to be too big and stretches the margain? My suggestion: use thumbnails with a link to a larger picture. For now, you could change the number of posts displayed on the main page to see if this changes how the site appears. This is just a theory, but I think anything that is larger than the size of the main section is too big.
Speaking of which, at my setting at work (1024 x 768) the window has to be maximized to see all of the comment area. That may be something you wish to adjust, or may not.
Comment by RazorsKiss on January 25, 2005 at 7:21 pm
Everytime I try and change it to something relative, it blows up. Badly.
It’s not cool :/
See, this is what happens when you’re used to a tablular design, and not a div design 😛
*sigh*
Comment by Doug on January 25, 2005 at 10:43 pm
here is the page where that template originated. There is some explanation given for why floats are used, but I’m not smart enough to understand the whole thing.
Comment by RazorsKiss on January 25, 2005 at 10:44 pm
It was the “maximum width” value, in the “blogbody” field, I found.
Yours has the same issue at 800×600, by the way. Set it to 250, or 300, and it should go away.
Yay! Thanks 😀
Now, to find trackbacks…