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I just found cushyCMS - via a link from Simplebits and I love it! No doubt it's been mentioned on the forum already, but I've not been here for a while, so not up on the latest news. I'm going to trial this on the site I'm building at the moment and see how ti goes, but I think it's perfect for the sites that I do for artists and creative folk as it looks so easy to use and its free! amazing.

the text area needs the width and height defined. I used: <fieldset> <legend>Required Message:</legend> <label for="comments">* Please type your message below:<br /> <textarea name="comments" id="comments" rows="6" cols="100" class="textbox"><?php get_data("comments"); ?></textarea></label><br /> </fieldset>

sorry - got it working now - missed a '.' out of the email address on the last few test forms. Still not sure why the first test took so long to arrive though.

I stand corrected. I got the first test email through - it took about half an hour - Anyone know why it would take so long? The second test hasn't come through at all.

leaflet people should be shot at midnight! The only things I want coming through my letterbox are letter addressed to me!

I charge £35-£40 per hour [for web work let me stress, before I get a barage of rude comments!]

I think it's OK but it looks unfinished and isn't such a dramatic change to warrent it happening...so if I have to choose, I'd stick with the old for now as I'm used to it.

OMG where are my sunglasses - I'm blinded by the colours. Yep you really need to work on the styling - mixing bright yellow, bright blue, aqua, red and pink is not my idea of a good colour scheme. Everything is fighting for attention and winning and it's blinding. Also I wouldn't advise using such dramatic embossing effects and filters on your text - it doesn't make it stand out - it makes it harder to read. Try the site http://kuler.adobe.com/ and select a decent colour scheme and definitely tone things down.

I tried the form and it doesn't work... i followed the instructions and inputted my email address and web address where it said, uploaded it, filled it out and pressed send and it's been over 15 minutes and I've still not received anything...

I might try this form out then - I was just a bit concerned about having all those rude words appear within the code. I need a simple small form for a site I'm doing now, so will see how this works. It would be good with a captcha - but I don't code php so not a job for me.

what about all those rude words that are in the form defined after the following: $exploits = $profanity = $spamwords = $bots = aren't they a bad thing to have within your html page - won't they get indexed by google??? Not sure i'd want all those rude words within my HTML. Any thoughts?

It's annoying as I work in fireworks and I thought by buying CS3, this would help with my workflow. I last had Studio8 and thought that by now the programmes would be better integrated.

yeah I would need all the layers and elements unflattened

I recently upgraded to CS3 to help with workflow as I get a load of files in illustrator and photoshop format, and have to supply the same back, but I work in Fireworks. Fireworks has the new great feature of Pages, so you can have the entire website layout within one file very simply without having tons of layers to switch on and off - so now it's very easy to manage site designs. However if I want to save the file as a PSD to send to a client - only the current page showing is saved into the the PSD and the file size is twice as big as the original PNG file which contains all the pages - odd? firstly - is there a way to save the fireworks file so that you can open it in photoshop and see all the separate page designs? If not then that's a huge flaw in the software! secondly - why is the photoshop file so much bigger in filesize than the fireworks file when it contains less info. I've got one fireworks file that has eight page layouts in it for one site. If I want to supply these to my client so they can pass them onto their programmers to build I have to selecet each page individually and save that as a PSD which means the client gets 8 separate files rather than one nifty fireworks file that contains the lot. Maybe I'm missing something as I've never really used photoshop before. Any help much appreciated.

This is doing my head in - I'm going back to paid work now and will look at this later. I'm going to compare the original template with my updated version later this evening and see if I can fix it. Thanks for taking time out to have a look/play at/with the code. It's helped me pinpoint what to look at.

I don't know - I'm completely baffled - amazed that you can track this stuff down as I'm just scratching my head constantly. I'll have a look at the 200px width thing and also the comments thing now and see whether that's where the annoying div is coming from.

I don't know - as I've done all the editing online witihin the wordpress admin thing. maybe what I should do is reload the original template and see if the error exists there and if not compare templates old and new and find how I've messed it up. It's only something that I've noticed happening recently, so it's bound to be something I've added.

no - I don't think so - just content within paragraph tags

Now I'm confused... I created a blank HTML file and pasted into that the single.php code. I then took the header.php code and pasted that where <?php get_header(); ?> occured and did the same with the sidebar and footer. I then went through the HTML and I cannot find an extra div tag that is surplus to requirements. So not sure where it's coming from?????

This is the code within the single.php file - no extra divs in it... <?php get_header(); ?> <div class="main"> <div class="col2"> <div class="left"> <div class="content"> <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1> <div class="descr"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author() ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit post',' ~ ',''); ?></div> <div class="entry"> <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?> </div> <p class="info">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?></p> </div> <?php comments_template(); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <p align="center"><?php next_posts_link('« Previous Entries') ?> <?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries »') ?></p> <?php else : ?> <h1>Not Found</h1> <p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p> <?php endif; ?> </div> </div> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?> At the bottom there are 2 PHP bits to get the sidebar and the footer - so I'm guessing the extra div is within them...but when I check out the source code of the site the only time the extra div appears is when you're looking at a post - all the other section [home, archives, categories] are all fine...so this makes me think that the extra div isn't within the sidebar or the footer. Maybe I need to create an HTML page and slot all the bits together within that and find the error that way - or is that complicating the matter - is there an easier way to so this?

brilliant - lots of things to investigate - thanks - I had no idea where to start looking. I had noticed that extra div tag but didn't know where to find it as I was looking at the source code of the page....will have a look into all these things now and see if I can fix it - cheers for the help.

Ok - first things first - I'm new to blogs in that this is my first attempt and I think I've done a pretty good job with regards to styling it to look like my actual site...but as I'm no expert on wordpress and how the whole blog structure is put together I'm finding it really difficult to debug this problem that's occuring. blog address is http://www.milomade.co.uk/blog Everything looks fine when it loads etc, but if you select a 'Recent Post' from the right hand column and wait for the page to load - everything is in the right place apart from the Right hand column which is now pushed to below the content of the rest of the site. I have no idea where to look to fix this tobe honest and would appreciate some help, if anyone can help by looking at the source code. The funny thing is, that I'm sure the layout didn't break initially when I put the site live. I'm sure I would've noticed the error. So I thought maybe it's because I've added the Flickr thing, so I took that out but it makes no difference. so maybe the error has been there all along. I'd really appreciate some of you blog experts having a look. Thanks E

Happy Birthday!

we used to play that too!

that's me for the night though - I've got other things to do...