Custom Page Tips for Newbies
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I’d like to put up a custom page without getting into deep complexity or going down a cul-de-sac, or haemoraging loads of time.
To illustrate the problem: I put a simple table in my page with a centred image in row 1 column 1, and an unordered list of bullet points in row 1 column 2. I hoped to repeat this for further rows. When I previewed, the top of the ordered list was aligned to the bottom of the image. If I do the same in a simple test page outside of wordpress, I get the alignment I want. The CSS of the theme is doing stuff behind the scenes that I cannot see and which threatens to eat up a mass of time to fix or work around, if indeed that is possible.
In general, what is the best direction to go in if I want to avoid this kind of time vampire? What are your tips and recomendations? (I didn’t see this clearly answered on the top two levels of support.)
Some hints for the specific problem would also be very welcome. The theme I’m using on the site is ‘Untitled’, which will be fine for all the blog pages, but I need a few custom pages that mabye don’t fit the style.
Cheers and thanks in advance!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi, here’s the link: http://satisfyingstructures.com/test/ and the password is test. The red, green and yellow backgrounds were just so that I could see more clearly what is going on. Cheers.
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Fixed it. After comparing element attributes (using Safari page inspector) for content in a simple page with same content in a page served by worpress, I found I had to add
style="vertical-align:middle;"to mytdelements. I had hoped I didn’t have to get involved in hard-coded CSS overrides but I guess its inevitable.
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