Please Help -- Having A Few Problems With My Blog

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by banks1, May 20, 2009.

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  1. #1
    Firstly, the blog is http://www.FinanceAdvisoryStop.com

    Problems below:

    1) All the titles below "Pages" in the sidebar are not aligned properly in the yellowish/brown boxes...they are a bit out.

    2) All the text in the boxes below "Pages" in the sidebar have too much space (you'll see what I mean if you look on my sidebar)...
    Ex:

    May 2009


    April 2009


    3) The sidebar is too high up. I want it lower so my larger banner at the top of my site does not overlap.

    Solutions to any of these problems? Even if you can only help with one of the problems, that is fine! :)
     
    banks1, May 20, 2009 IP
  2. Cash Nebula

    Cash Nebula Peon

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    #2
    In the stylesheet, reduce padding-top for .sidebar ul li ul li
    But that will also shrink the box so maybe add a height value too.

    To push the sidebar down, try adding padding-top to #sidebar
     
    Cash Nebula, May 21, 2009 IP
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  3. banks1

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    #3
    Thanks Cash!

    One more quick question; if I wanted to move the Google Ads on the right sidebar (closer to the bottom of the sidebar) to the top of the page, how could I do that?
     
    banks1, May 25, 2009 IP
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    #4
    By editing sidebar.php

    Do you want both ads at the top of the sidebar, side by side, while keeping Pages and Archives with the rest of the widgets?

    You can shift all the widgets above the boxes easy enough, but it gets complicated if you want to have some widgets above the boxes and some below them.
     
    Cash Nebula, May 25, 2009 IP
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    Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind (having them side by side). I do not like where the ads are now (bottom of page -- not much visibility). How can I do this?
     
    banks1, May 25, 2009 IP
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    Blonde Jon Active Member Affiliate Manager

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    #6
    Couldn't you copy and paste your adsense code into a text widget and move where ever you want it?
     
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    That's what I have done. Yet, the ads are still below certain boxes. I think the boxes above the ads are actually integrated into the template/theme. Thus, I would need to edit the code to move the ads above.
     
    banks1, May 25, 2009 IP
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    #8
    You're exactly right.

    If you don't mind having all the widgets above the boxes, you can simply move this code to the top of sidebar.php, between the sidebar div and the first comment.
    <!-- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ include sidebars ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -->
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/sidebar1.php"); ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/sidebar2.php"); ?>
<div class="clear"></div>
<!-- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ include sidebars ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -->
    Code (markup):
    Otherwise, you need to make two additional sidebar files, or remove the text widgets and integrate the Adsense code into the theme.

    BTW, thanks for the rep! :)
     
    Cash Nebula, May 26, 2009 IP