It looks like you missed part of Inger's example: ....margin 0 10px;....
This is CSS shorthand for 0px on the top/bottom and 10px on the right/left.

You could also write it like this:


Back to the pros.....

Yeah but the whole blog page is hosed.

I downloaded the site on Jan 2nd and the blog page is ok there. I just gotta figure how to get those files back into the uploaded site, and which files now.

This Wordpress stuff is so screwed.

I don't know what I'm doing, the final files get generated by a program somewhere, and I'm making it worse and worse by trying.

Do you have the CC html editor?

The css code I gave you is working here locally. I downloaded your blog page and the css file, but since they were both saved to my desktop, I removed the long and winding path to the subfolder in the WP system and wrote <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="fbc1bdcd.4d7307.css" media="all" />

But if and when you come out of the WP system and just build html pages and css pages, then you can do likewise, and just have one css file instead of one for every page.

Eric, I seem to remember Melissa saying that she has both the Editor and VSD...

Blasted Word Press
So the "hosed" content is within the body and the correct content is held within the wrapper (inside the body).
I've had one brush with WP, that was enough! I hope someone here can make an easy fix of this for you!

I installed WordPress and checked to see how hard it was to alter the css. It wasn't any different then any other site. Just a matter of locating it.

So what can Melissa do to get her posts back within the Wrapper? Did you look at her blog?
I'm just being nosey here... One of these days I might just learn something

I also installed WP and found it fairly easy within that system to alter the css file, but of course I didn't have Melissa's original files and setup. I think she must have some custom setup, because I find it very odd with all the cryptic names for the css files, and a different one for each page. WP is supposed to have a style sheet by the name of 'style.css', and the weird names only make sense if WP actually creates them dynamically for each page. But I haven't delved all that deep into the secrets of WP - yet. I probably will one day, though...

Yes, but I couldn't set up the address and password stuff right, to successfully log into the HostGator site, which appears to only be accessible from their control panel on the web.

I think a lot of the mess is being caused by it generating the final stuff in the WP program Inger, you're correct about that.

And I'd LOVE to just do this site over with VSD and dump the WP nonsense. It appears to be so complexly designed that it's for big companies that can afford to retain a web designer all the time to change things for them and maintain it.

But VSD appears to have the same problems that pushed me to have this designed by a designer last spring. Too many things it can't do, or can't do well, and if you go in and change the final code by hand, to add what you want, then use the VSD interface again later, it wipes out the things you change to make them like you wanted them.

For example, I used to put in my own "justify" for text, only to have it remove the code if I used the VSD interface again later. And before it was W3C compliant, I would change things to make it W3C compliant, using HTML Editor, only to have VSD change them back again every time I used it again.

Very frustrating.