The CSS class did not play for hr

But thanks to Wordpress community - it does now! I wanted to put custom HR right under the title using CSS, and no matter how I did it it just did not work as I wanted to. But after looooong trying I finally found how it needs to be done here, I put the code:

.topic-divider {

1. width:100%;
2. color:#006400;
3. align: center;
4. size: 1px;
5. border-bottom:2px double #006400;

}

at the very bottom of the custom CSS and there is another trick I discovered: there should be commenting only with /* something */, and no commenting starting with '//'. Weird, but now it works! Right how I wanted it to. I am happy: little victories like that make my day :)

Some little things

I am starting to like the convenience of creating links in wordpress. Sure there is no problem to do it the usual way, which iusd actual coding, but you can do it easier way: just highlighting the address in the text and click "link" on top of the edit window. Kind of cheesy, but works great! The concept of "Category" is nice too. ou just pute under certain category, and voila: you get the list of perfectly categorized pages right where you want too the full list. Another tрing that learned: you have to really understand the difference between the "post" and the "page." Especially it is difficult when we are talking about the web site, not the blog.

Let the fun begin

And...here we go. Now I am unemployed once again :) I am volunteering as a web content manager for Global Water Dances and liking it. So I have one more skill under my belt: Wordpress. It can be learned and worked with by one that has HTML coding skills, which I do. Thus, I can work it, and I am learning it as I go. For example, I have learned where images go and how they stored. BTW, here is a very uncomfortable and a-logical structure for images storage that Wordpress gives by default. There are only two levels of digital library organization: year and month of uploading the picture. There is no way to create your own structure. So, in a way, pictures just piled up there. But Wordpress did come up with something called "Gallery." It is still a pile of pictures physically wise, but it's somewhat organized for visual presentation - on a web page. There is restricted search. It is restricted to edit, to play with all together, so this is not really a developer's choice. Fortunately, here I learned very necessary thing: you can teach Wordpress to play with you. You just need to know ways around :) Sometimes waaaaay around, but here comes handy a good skills of mine: HTML/CSS coding. Here is an example of "way around": the gallery was created before me come on board, and when I needed it, I could not find the settings for editing it. Could not find a text editor for it. So, I had to turn to WYSISWYG just to get to edit it. The problem was that I needed captions for pictures in this gallery, but they were not visible. It looked as they were there but transparent or something. So, I spent some time looking for settings, but I could not find anything to help me again. So, eventually I just gave up on this and put some little code in the custom CSS.

.wp-caption-text {
color: #333333;
font-size: 11px;
}

And now everything is fine :) That what I want. It was most pleasant experience, but the result was satisfying. So, everything is great :) They do restrict you a lot in building your own page, but if you think about this, all this makes perfect sense. I am volunteer, and eventually I can drop that thing and somebody else should be able to pick it up right where I dropped it off.