My 2 penn'orth

I am afraid that I am unable to make regular posts here because all of my free time is taken up with web design work, answering questions and problems, and keeping my other website going with new content.
This was an attempt to undestand the Wordpress format as much as to make a regular blog about nothing important, maybe I should have a rant about Google PR, but then I think ‘what is the point’, Google will do what it wants, when it wants and there is not much that the web community can do about it. We have to play the game by it’s rules…

It may not be the ‘correct’ way to add a dropdown menu to Wordpress, but I thought I would see how difficult it would be to manually add a dropdown menu based on http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/elegant2.html.
So the ‘my 2p menu’ is now installed across the top of this theme.
All that is required is to take the menu structure from the CSSplay web page and the stylesheet which is saved in the same directory as your web theme.
Add the menu structure to the header.php file in the position you would like it to appear and update the structure to fit your links.
Ensure that the conditional comments are kept in the correct places.
I used the links from my sidebar to populate the dropdowns and added the search form to the right of the menu bar.
The structure of the conditional comment is:
Position 1
<li><a href=”….”>Link Text<!–[if gte IE 7]><!–></a><!–<![endif]–>
<!–[if lte IE 6]><table><tr><td><![endif]–> Position 2
<ul>
<li><a href=”….”>Link Text</a></li>
<li><a href=”….”>Link Text</a></li>
</ul>
<!–[if lte IE 6]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]–> Position 3
</li>

Position 1 : AROUND the closing link tag. NOTE this is a special CSSplay form of the MS conditional comments and does more than at first sight.
Position 2 : BEFORE the opening inner <ul> tag
Position 3 : AFTER the closing </ul> tag

I suppose it had to happen, me, writing a blog.
Don’t expect too much though as my time is already stretched and I have very little left to play with.

However I hope that every now and then I will manage a few words.

The main topic today is the start of the forum which I hope will become popular and be an interesting place to find answers and to have general discussions. But we will see.
It will be run for a trial period to see how popular it becomes, so please give it support if you would like it to continue.

That’s all for today.