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WordPress 2.8 Theme Design

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WordPress 2.8 Theme Design

Overview of this book

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site, especially in WordPress. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image, ensure standards compliance, and create easily navigable layouts. But most WordPress users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward. It's easy to create powerful and professional themes for your WordPress web site when you've got this book to hand. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions to create a robust and flexible WordPress theme, along with best practices for theme development. It will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It reviews the best practices from development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme's template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins. Whether you're working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site's design and branding.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
WordPress 2.8 Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Fixing CSS across browsers


If you've been following our "debug and validate" method described in the chapter, then for all intents and purposes, your layout should look pretty spot-on between both the browsers.

Box model issues

In the event that there is a visual discrepancy between Firefox and IE, in most cases it's a box model issue arising because you're running in quirks mode in IE. Generally, box model hacks apply to pre-IE6 browsers (IE5.x) and apply to IE6 if it's running in quirks mode. Again, running in quirks mode is to be preferably avoided, thus eliminating most of these issues. If your markup and CSS are validating (which means you shouldn't be triggering quirks mode in IE, but I've had people swear to me their page validated yet quirks mode was being activated), you might rather "live with it" than try to sleuth what's causing quirks mode to activate.

Basically, IE 5.x and IE 6 quirks mode don't properly interpret the box model standard. So, it will squish your borders and padding...