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?

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

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…

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]

How did you come up with your blog name?

I’ve been fiddling around with this layout for a couple of days.  During the process I’ve discovered just how inferior my coding knowledge is.  XD  Anyway, I’ve still got some tweeking to do and I’m sure I’ll have more puzzles to solve once I’ve seen it on IE.  O.o

Right, I’m off to bedfordshire.

Oo, before I conk out, Happy Chinese New Year!  Sun leen fai loc!  Sun tai geen hong (I should brush up on my phonetics).

So, when you browser websites which are aimed for potential consumer what do you look for?

I think it’s time to say goodbye to the blogsphere.  I’m starting my hunt in finding a good-looking football, with a bucket load of money.  Yes, that’s right, I’m going to become a WAG – one who will be living on her husband’s/boyfriend’s money.

Only joking of course!  The real and more feasible reason is that I’m making huge (…?) changes to this site.  Now I’m at a point in my life where I have to start getting my tush in gear and making things happen.  This site will be turning into a portfolio site, and stay a portfolio site.  As I doubt having a blog (e.g ranting about PMS) would look professional to potential customers and commission work.    So, if you get that bored and decide to visit this site again, don’t get startled by any “drastic” changes you may see, heh.

I want to get a personal site up and running again but, with time constraints (I should really be getting on with designs right now), I may have to delay that idea.  I’ll probably whore my personal site’s URL on twitter, if I get around to putting one up. 

Oh and new layout…tell me what you think. 

[edit on 28.06]Keeping the layout to this until I find place suited for the navigation.[/edit]