Jenn Mears Web Design

This is actually an addendum to the previous post, “A Case of the DT’s”. While a Definition List worked for the simple matter of placing an image and some information together neatly, when I wanted similar information to line up across the page, things got crazy again! After an hour of the “Wordpress Shuffle”
(changing a line of CSS, then checking the site in a different window, running back, change a different thing, run back to check…), I gave up and was on the verge of leaving the page as is, when I had a “eureka!” moment. Could I make a template for the page and insert a table inside the code?

Turns out, I could.

It seems weird, going back to the old school table method, but when the graphic designer wants the images and text to march across the page, sometimes the old trick works best.

For extra credit, I guess I could find a way to automatically call new ads to the table via php, but for now, I’ll just do it the old fashioned way, with lovingly handcrafted HTML.

My latest project has been one of those things where you say “Yeah, I’m pretty sure I can do that.” only to end up thrashing around on Google and in various forums, trying every keyword combination possible to make Wordpress do something that you thought would be fairly simple. (more…)