So I’m trying to pull together a wedding website. Kinda lame, I know, but at least I don’t want one of those shitty pre-made fill-in-the-blanks and pay $100+ to some company for it sites you see, so I’m trying to do it on my own. Yes, I know this blog doesn’t even have a real layout yet. So sue me.
At the very least, it’ll help keep me organized, plus be a good place to put registry links, and maps/directions for our not-from-Kincardine guests.
I’m using WordPress, because I know the system and I think the backend is flexible enough to do the things I want, and in theory will take less work than building a plain HTML site from the ground up.
The trouble is the layout. I found a great open-source no-frills layout that I love and would be easy to tweak to have the look I want. Trouble is it doesn’t work in IE. Like, at all.
Not that I’m planning on having a big audience for the site or anything, and I’m pretty sure none of my friends use IE anymore, but I’d been hoping to send around the link to my family, most of whom don’t even know what a “browser” is, let alone that there are other ways to view the internet than Internet Explorer.
Firefox = Good. (and still looks good in smaller resolutions)
IE = Bad.
IE less than 1024×768 = Terrible.
Anyone happen to know any good WordPress themes that look roughly like this, that has cross-browser compatability?
Basic requirements:
3 column
100% width, not fixed
Clean, simple to alter
I’ve found a few that are kinda close, but they’d all require almost too much editing to be worth it. With this one, basically a colour change and a few images gives me exactly what I want.
Grr.
Sidenote: I may just end up using that layout over here in my real blog, though. I like it. Does anyone who reads this blog, at all, use Internet Explorer? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller?
I know a guy who’s got a php site with 3 collums, 100% width and not fixed. But it’s not wordpress. It’s CoffinBirdpress.
Is this CoffinBirdpress available and customizable?
Very simple frontend (i.e. the website itself). Almost entirely HTML (the php statements are kept to a strict minimum and for maxiumum simplicity), you customize it how you want it.
The content in the middle is fed from a phpbb forum. So if you want to post something: just create a new thread in a specific forum. Comments are supported.
The downside is that currently people must enter phpbb to post a comment. Although we have it running as painlessly as possible.
See maliceweb.com for a demonstration.
There’s also been talk of another service being offered via Coffin Labs in association with ActionFlight Productions that may interest you…
Contact me for more info…