People,

Just out of curiosity, I know I've seen different instructional videos online for some of the more complex programming maneuvers required in different situations, but I'm wondering if there's anything out there which instructs you on some of the more complicated aspects of Word Press? For instance, I had a question similar to the person who posted one topic earlier in this section, a question about posting a picture in the sidebar of your blog (such as of the cover of a book you might want people to be aware of) as well as questions about is it even possible to post a banner in a post, as in an advertising banner (click it and you're redirected to that site). Etc. I was reading the last thread in this forum and while the author seems to explain 'how to' do it - it's still kinda lost on me. Anyway, curious to know if there's any place you can go online that posts little home made instructional videos of how to do some of this stuff. Any info you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Posting a picture in your sidebar is just easy html

<img src="url">

just make sure that the image width is not larger than your sidebar.

go into presentation and then edit theme. on your right side you will see all of the files in your theme. You want to edit sidebar.

I recommend copying the entire code and pasting it into notepad or something just in case you screw something up.

then place that picture code in their and save it.

Look at it and see if it is where you want it, if not paste it further up or further down in your code.

If you screw something up then just paste the notepad code back in place and everything is back to where you started.

Hope this helps

Charles

Thanks Chamel, that's definitly helpful for one of the things I want to do, but I'd imagine there's whole host of other little problems I'd run up against. Just wondering if anyone regularly posts YouTube type vids of "how to" do certain things, you know, for future reference. Anyway...

Thanks for the tip though.

Got another question: Is there any way to post a banner in the midst of a post (talking about WordPress mind you)? Like, I know how to post a picture, but I'm saying a banner link that someone clicks on and gets redirected to another site. Would really like to be able to do that. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.

By the by, I'm having a lot of fun trying to build a blog from scratch. As far as just loading the site with as much relevant material as possible and making everything aesthetically pleasing...it's kinda fun. Also, it doesn't occupy as much time as I thought it would. A good bit to be sure, but not as much as I thought.

Isn't a banner just a picture within a hyperlink?

Picture would be
<img src="URL"> like Charles stated.

banner would be
<a href="advertised site URL" target="_blank"><img src="banner location URL" width="" height=""></a>

Where the width and height would be that of the banner image.
target="blank" simply opens the advertised URL in a new
window when someone clicks on the banner.

I think if you are making a blog post, you can select the
image button in the post editor to create the image code and
then highlight the code and select the hyperlink button to
create the link.

Victor

Thats absolutely correct

Thanks

Charles