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I Really Screwed Up My Blog... Please Help.

Posted by jmanguba • 12/22/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, blog help, Help, html, screwed up

Okay well, I was checking out my blog the other day and I noticed that my Google Ad wasn't showing up on the right sidebar. I tried looking at the HTML code on the wordpress editor, but it wasn't much help cause I'm definitely not an expert with HTML.

So instead of putting the Adsense code in the theme template, I put it in a widget on the sidebar. This didn't help, and it aligned the items below the ad to the left.

And then it screwed up even more. The bottom bar on my blog, turned white, making my links not readable.

www.jmnbasource.com In case you don't know what i'm talking about.

If anybody could give me any help, it would be greatly appreciated because I have no idea where I went wrong.

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  1. crawfordvj
    12/22/08
    crawfordvj
    Hi jmanguba.
    I had a quick look at your css. To change the footer text to black.
    Open your CSS file and change this

    .footer_sidebar_item a{
    color:#FFFFFF;

    to this

    .footer_sidebar_item a{
    color:#000000;
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  2. crawfordvj
    12/22/08
    crawfordvj
    Noticed your link hover is also white - change this

    .footer_sidebar_item a:hover{
    color:#FFFFFF;

    to this
    .footer_sidebar_item a:hover{
    color:#e00505;
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    1. jmanguba
      12/22/08
      jmanguba
      Thank you sooooo much crawfordvj. That fixed up the links. But if you highlight the footer you can notice that the words Sponsored Links and Blogroll are also in white. Would you happen to know how to fix that?
      I hope it's not too much trouble for you :S
  3. crawfordvj
    12/23/08
    crawfordvj
    Hi jmanguba.
    To change that text to black.
    Look for
    footer_ sidebar_item in your CSS.

    After font-size : 12px;

    add this
    color:#000000;


    This is what it will look like now.

    .footer_sidebar_item{
    float:left;
    color:#FFFFFF;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:12px;
    color:#000000;
    width:285px;
    padding:10px;
    padding-left:20px;
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    1. jmanguba
      12/23/08
      jmanguba
      Thank you once again. You're a life saver.
      But now I feel bad for asking for another favour :S How do you change the background of the footer to red?
  4. crawfordvj
    12/23/08
    crawfordvj
    Hi jmanguba.
    You're welcome.

    I see that you are getting braver and having a go at changing things yourself. That's good. Just make a copy of your original CSS file and keep it somewhere safe. If you change something and screw up somewhere you can always go back to the original file and line for reference.

    If you change the footer_sidebar_item to red, the links will disappear when you put your mouse over them - they are red also.
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