I was going to title this “Bug-ger” but recently I realised that it doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone so thought otherwise.  Anyway…

Two problems occured with my portfolio website.  This was a while back and I was modifying my template.  Everything was sorted but the next time I go onto WordPress to activate the template I notice a bar of unwanted padding on the top.  Not only that put modifying the settings to my gallery seemed to have messed up the quality of my images (they were reduced from the original size).

For weeks, on and off, I had been trying to fix/counter attack the padding issue, thinking it was something to do with my CSS.  Nothing.  Today I looked at the source code from a visitor’s point of view…low and behold:

html { margin-top: 28px !important; }
* html body { margin-top: 28px !important; }

I didn’t have the foggiest at to where this coding came from but it certainly wasn’t from me.  I checked my plugins individually to see if that was the problem but it wasn’t.  Then I “Google-d” the code and finally find that it’s a bug in WordPress.  At first I tried modifying the CSS with the suggested code:

#wp-admin-bar-comments {display:none;}
#wp-admin-bar-appearance {display:none;}

…nothing came of it.  It then came to my attention that it’s a bug in WordPress.  The visitors of my website don’t see any top padding, just me through the admin panel.  Now, I feel stupid – trying to fix a padding problem, which isn’t even there. XD  Oh well, I’m in the process of getting a more simplistic template up.

My next ponder is what gallery to use.  Any suggestions?

There are still a few small issues with this layout but I can’t seem to solve the problems, as of yet.  Bemused.  I know it’s more green than a tin of peas¹ but I quite liked the combination at first.  Not so sure now…

Any advice or opinions are welcomed with open arms.  There’s something(s) about the layout which I’m not too sure about but if it gets flagged up then I’ll definitely look into modifying the mentioned bits.

N.B. The CSS is not valid – that’s due to me incorporating CSS3 elements – nor does the HTML but that’s not really important²

1. Strange, considering I’m not that keen on the colour green, or peas for that matter. [↩]
2. I always seem to get a problem with validation due to the search form, after every new layout as well.  Bane. Oh well, here’s to looking into the problem once again. XD [↩]

[Off topic]Yay, three weeks from university!

Tumble weeds will roll by more often as I’ve got nothing interesting to post (have I ever? ) and I’m currently working on a layout.  It’s coming along okay and almost complete, except I’m stumped on how to style the comments.  I’m also getting glitches which images and don’t have a foggiest for the solution.

Don’t really know how I feel about the layout, which is never a good sign but it’s a learning process.  Also I feel the layouts different to my other monstrous creations, which is always good.

Hmm…maybe I’ll post about football-related thoughts.  It’s interesting and very appealing to the whole public…

For about a week I’ve actually been working on a layout.  Yep, no half hearted attempt at a redesign, actually making an effort.  Something that was never put in for the previous layouts.

I’ve got the whole layout looking how I want…on Firefox.  IE – 8 might I add – on the other hand…grr.  It’s all nice and dandy going IE > Page > View compatibility but that’s not exactly catering to you, is it?  I’ve looked through my CSS but can’t seem to resolve the padding issues, and I’ve been scratching my head on that for a couple of days. :/

Knowing me it probably is a simple solution but I’m just not seeing it.

[edit 23:14]Managed to solve one padding problem.  Now just to get ’round the other one.   IE still doesn’t render the site how I want but looks as if I’m just going to have to stick it for now.[/edit]

[edit 17/09]Found a solution to override the issue.[/edit]

Just thinking about what to name my blog as “Blog” sounds a tad boring.

How did you come up with your blog name?