P O V - Point Of View 

seems like there’s always something I need to update, a new theme to play with, or something else to tweak.

Of course, if it wasn’t fun, I wouldn’t mess with it, right?

only took two days. Why those who construct themes claim they validate to XHTML 1.0 Transitional when they quite obviously do NOT, I will never understand. The stuff I had to fix in each theme was inherent in the “vanilla” distro - it was NOT something I added in with plugins or otherwise with tweaks, so this rests squarely on the theme originators’ shoulders.

Next up: validate it all to XHTML 1.0 Strict. Yes, I’m aware it’s not “required”. But y’know what? Doing so forces one to write spotless, minimal html and css. A good thing….

seems to have gone off without a hitch of any sort. Would be the first time in history I upgraded something and it worked right first time! Too many times the upgrade procedure for a program is incredibly difficult….

and every theme has to be validated separately, there’s no such thing as an overall “it works” setup….

I have lots of pages to validate. LOTS of pages. I haven’t been doing it as I’ve gone along because so much of what I’ve been doing is WordPress - and I don’t care that most of the themes and their authors claim they’re “valid whatever” - they don’t by goddess validate. So I’ve been just getting things where they belong, but now of course I have to go back and do it “right”. In many ways, it’s easier when it’s all online instead of trying to validate stuff that’s on my local server, but it’s still a mess. And it will BE a mess until I get back. The only thing I CAN say is that all of it displays properly in FF, IE, and Opera. Which is a step in the right direction anyway!

The other problem I’ve been having is that the ‘net as a whole has seemed “cloggy”. I don’t know whether this is due to the weather (unlikely except if the problem is local to me) or to tax season and everyone’s trying to do taxes, submit them, etc. online (possible). Things have been abominably slow though when trying to upload or download - dial up is bad enough of course, but it’s been like back in the 9600 baud days here lately….

isn’t going “great” but I’m not buried under dropped balls yet. Site redo is coming along, up and working mostly. Setting up the Taft theme for a “tales” blog on Moonlight - with a few other “non-slickish” themes for those who find Taft too hard to deal with…. tweaks. And more tweaks. That’s life in the website business…. And then there’s the pages and pages of domain names I found that are all available and that I’d like to have. Hundreds of them, thousands of dollars’ worth. *sigh*

(that is, the fix relating to PNG-24 transparency): The fix itself is provided by this site - it's not my fix, I'm just promulgating it (seems as if it's something of an "unknown" right now!) Here's how I did it, to make the Taft theme display correctly in IE as well as "real" browsers: decide which pages in wp will need the fix in order to display the graphics correctly (for instance, in Taft, that's header.php for the start call, because it's included in all pages following; index.php, page.php, and single.php which will all get the end call). Next, download the code here, and rename the file replacePngTags.php. [Was getting a truncated file as posted, due to a "limit feature" on post length - sorry!] Once you have that file saved, upload it to the wp root folder. You don't need to set any special permissions on it. Next, pull up the file(s) which will need the "begin" php call: in this case, taft/header.php. At the very top of the file BEFORE THE DOCTYPE declarations etc., insert . Then pull up the file(s) which will need the "end" php call: in this case, taft/index.php, page.php, and single.php. At the very end of each file BUT INSIDE the closing BODY and HTML tags, insert
Warning: include_once(replacePngTags.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/vkaryl/public_html/pov/wp-content/plugins/exec-php.php(75) : eval()'d code on line 14

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'replacePngTags.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/vkaryl/public_html/pov/wp-content/plugins/exec-php.php(75) : eval()'d code on line 14

Fatal error: Call to undefined function replacePngTags() in /home/vkaryl/public_html/pov/wp-content/plugins/exec-php.php(75) : eval()'d code on line 15