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Unfortunately, the method you described is the only way I know to do this. The slider only handles images, not videos, and it doesn’t handle any images from outside URL’s. As far as I know, this is really a jQuery issue, and not a slider issue.
That said, you can always try replacing the theme’s slider with a slider that will handle video, such as the AntyhingSlider but that would be a fair amount of work.
I admit, I don’t know nearly enough about the nav menus, or the footer widgets. Those are the next areas to figure out.
Always a work in progress.
I don’t know…when I visit your site, I see five posts rotating through your slider. Unfortunately, most of that very valuable real estate is taken up by your social sharing buttons.
Ken
Glad it worked! I’ll do a tutorial about images in the future.
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This post probably has the information you need:
https://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/menu-tab-font-colors
Ken
I was just pulling that off the top of my head, presuming it would change all images. But other bits of code could also affect how images display. Something like this
img {border:0px !important;}might be more universal. But again, none of this is tested, I’m just thinking off the top of my head.
Using Firebug is always your best bet for precisely figuring out what you are trying to change.
I honestly have no idea. I know very little about bbPress. (Although I like it because it’s much like WordPress, and much easier to use than other forum software.) But if you click on a tag, it takes you directly to a listing of threads with that same tag. Much easier than searching.
That will only change images in your posts, but presumably that’s what you want.
You’re right, sometimes it’s hard to find things here, because people use vague or generic titles for their threads, or they hijack other threads. If we tagged our threads better, that may make searching easier. I will try to do this more consistently from now on.
Yes, the slider is only meant to work on the front page. But see this post:
It may have the answer you are looking for.
Ken
Thanks for taking a look, guys.
That background is awesome!
also the background; it’s like an old Captain’s map from the 1400’s.
That’s actually a snippet from the Piri Reis map, which is controversial in historical circles, but you know, it’s the only old map I could find in a large size that had pictures of ships on it. And I really wanted ships, to go along with the site description. I couldn’t get it to display properly at any size, so I used GIMP’s “Make Seamless” filter and it turned out better than I could have hoped.
Most probably due to the usage of a lot of CSS3 elements, like box shadows, gradients, transparency, etc.
Yes, I love that stuff. I used to do graphic design, so I enjoy pushing the envelope with these things. But I don’t use CSS transparency at all–just a couple of .png files filled with white color and then set to 50% and 75% transparency.
I LOVE the widget title boxes and the post title backgrounds. Very rustic, page looking.
That’s exactly the look I was going for. I wanted something to match the historical/fantasy/scifi/steampunk novels a lot of my male students are reading. And you know, IE doesn’t display the inset box shadow at all, but you can still tell that they are titles and they look good. Double bonus!
6 widgets in the footer?? NICE!! The vertical alignment of the two on the far right is driving me nuts… looks like the one on the bottom right needs to be “pushed” to the left about 2 or 3 pixels. (I wonder if anyone else would ever notice though).
Well, I didn’t until you mentioned something and then I checked…in Firefox, in Chrome, in Safari…and by gosh, you’re right. Weird.
would the text for the description of the category look better centered?
Yes, it would. Now fixed.
you have a double instance of your social sharing
All my posts have this, because I display social sharing icons at the top and bottom. But this post is so short, they are fairly close to one another. This is a good place to throw in some pictures, I think.
and it’s also somewhat difficult to readily identify your link to the contact page on your other site.
You’re right; I’ve fixed it and also added an underline to the hover mode, just to clarify. (I have a lot of very young people and a lot of
oldnot-so-young people who read this, and they need a bit of help every now and then.)And Josh, I used your suggestion from this post to add a hover element to the “read more” buttons, but instead of using a gradient, I used an inset border. Thanks for this; it really does make a difference.
Thanks again guys for taking a look. Next thing is to work on those footer widgets, but gotta work on content (book reviews and a handful of tutorials) first.
Ken
