Jiggyboo

I pulled my info from here (and found that through this).

Here is an example of the problem.

The issue is that the image has a “floating” attribute, which in this case is float left. This causes text to wrap around it. However, there is not enough text or content to equal the height of the image. Thus the image overlaps the elements below.

The fix

Clear The Display

In the event the image is larger than the amount of text that would otherwise surround it, causing the image to hang like a flag over some element below it, then at some point in the text, you’ll want to clear the display. Note that there is no text inside this division.

<div style=”clear:both;”></div>

I just entered that code above right after “post content” in my index.php (ie my Wordpress Loop) and wala, it fixed it. Yeay!

*update: Looks like it may be deeper than this. Yes, it did fix the Detour theme I’m using on a site. But it didn’t fix the Dark Ritual theme i’m using on another site. So i think there is something in the style.css that needs to be present for this to work. I dont know what that is.

Awesome, so my Jiggyboo.net theme is working. I’m really proud of it, i think it is awesome. Yes its basic, but its authentic.

For some reason the background image was pushed off 19 pixels to the left in Firefox 2 (it looked fine in IE7). And I spent a good deal of time messing around with the different perimeters in the style.css file. I couldn’t figure it out. How was it that Firefox was having issues where IE7 was not? Thats blasphemy, its always IE < Firefox…but not in this case.
Well, the good news is that I fixed the problem. And this is my “How to Solve a Technically Challenging Problem” guide.

Wait.

No no, that was it, those are the instructions, just wait and see what happens (assuming its not business critical) … this is a proven troubleshooting method. Often times when assisting someone, waiting solves the problem. Why does it work? Well, I’m only guessing, but alot of times it is user error, or something is wrong with their internet connection, blabla.
In this case? I dont know, I didn’t change anything, it just started working. Which lines up with my confusion because when I was trying to fix it, I was ampily confused. I double/triple/quadriple checked my image dimensions, and verified they made sense in the CSS…
Then it just starts working.
I’m really happy its working, not complaining at all, its just weird. Now if only I could get Internet Explorer to stop pushing the sidebar down to the bottom of the blog. Stupid IE6.

Using the following guide…

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_centos5.0

I am setting up my own little server here at home. I hope to get it as close to the godaddy server setup as I can, you know, so when something works on the test server it technically will work on my live server.

*update…hmmm well i’m not getting very far with this, my fault, not the guides fault, regardless i’m now trying this one here…

*update using this guide to setup vnc stuffs

As soon as Wordpress 2.5 is out i’m going to be messing around with Forums. I’ll be using the bbpress forums, and i’m excited to finally get this stuff figured out. I’ve wanted to have forums for a long time now, but didn’t want to dive into a project that would require loads of maintenance. It seems bbpress is mature enough I wont need to mess alot with it once I figure it out.

Now if they’d just release WP2.5 i could get on my marry way.

Yeah that last theme was more in the direction I wanted, but it was really plain and uninspiring. This one, this one inspires. Or it does me anyway.

I think I am satisfied at this point. Yes there are things I’d like to change, such as the colors of different elements of the text. But as far as the general feel, and the general look (ie white background on black image on black foreground, I’d say I’ve got what I want.

Wordpress has evolved since I first began using it. They implemented “Tags“, which is kind of what I was using “Categories” for tags up to this point.

I’m just going to convert everything over. It may be a little messy, but I just want to start anew and do it (more) right this time.

Categories will be used as they are intended, grouping similar posts or themes. I’ll give it some thought.

Here are a lists of the categories as they are now, just in case i need them…


# accident (14)
# adventure (22)
# car (24)
# conflict (12)
# film industry (1)
# funny (28)
# house (37)
# ideas (1)
# media (1)
# move (9)
# music (10)
# news (50)
# The Red Balloon (movie script) (1)
# time-capsule (7)
# virtual dedicated (5)
# whining (29)


As you can see in my recent post covering my California Road Trip, I’ve finally found a solution for posting my pictures on this blog.

I’m using this plugin here. It allows me to upload a large amount of pictures without a lot of work. The main reason I’ve not posted a lot of pictures is due to the lack of ease in posting the pictures. Now the thumbnails are generated automatically, and i can manually add comments and other details in a much more efficient manner.

Staying up to 1:00am in order to get this working? Probably not a good idea. I have work early tomorrow.

We’ve got a few people interested in writing for ponderplace.com! yeay!

Currently Makena Hawley and Brandon Dodge have shown interest (or accepted my forcing them to be interested, whatevs).

I’ve still got to figure some stuff out. As it stands, having multiple writers would be difficult, simply because I have no way of easily distributing the Ponder Line requests, etc.

I’ll be setting up BBpress on one of my sites (who knows, maybe ponderplace.com) and we’ll use that. But I’ve never done this so i’m not sure when i’ll get it off the ground.

Just messing around with a new look for Jiggyboo.net. Pretty sure this is going to change dramatically. Just testing some stuff for now.

*update: Okay, this new color scheme (which was temporary anyway) hurts my eyes…

Don’t worry, I’m not keeping this black theme. This was the dark and semi-gritty (the blue-ish look kinda throws off the grit feeling) theme was chosen to companion my hardcore killersixtysix nickname. But I am retiring that name, and that look. Therefore, Jiggyboo.net will in due time have its own theme/look.

I just don’t have time right now to work on it. Lots of stuff happening in my life.