Entering results grid in page
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Hi,
I’m totally new to this website creating stuff and i’m a bit stuck. I’ve tried finding the answer to my question on the forums here but can’t see if anyone has tried already and don’t even know if it’s possibe but i wonder if anyone might know how to enter a results grid into worpress?I’ve tried copy and pasting into the page and via the ‘W’ symbol but it appears totally re-arranged or with no spacing etc.
The type information i want to add as it looks is here:
http://full-time.thefa.com/Table.do?divisionseason=169461
https://sites.google.com/site/wallingfordfootball/2012-13/player-stats
https://sites.google.com/site/wallingfordfootball/2012-13/results
If i could produce my own grid, that would be fine and i’d just manually enter the info if there’s enough room.
I’m making a football history, statistics, results site and most of my site will be in this format.
Maybe there’s a better theme to use for this type of site?
Many thanks for any advice,
Steven
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It’ll be tedious, but you can create the grid using an HTML table. Here’s a tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
Enter the HTML in the text screen of your editor.
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Here is a good article about making tables on WordPress.com:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/table-coding-for-wordpress-com-users/You might also consider getting an offline editor:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
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Thanks for all the info,
The html method works for 2-4 or 5 coloumns but you’re limited on how much content you’re able to add and it still looks messy.I’ll do a bit more research using the links you’ve supplied and see if i can imprve what i’ve done :-]
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Chateau does not have a very wide post area so if your tables need to be wide for legibility then you should look for a theme with wider posts. If you search for a different theme make sure you like the way tables are displayed. Some themes have CSS to set the appearance of tables.
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Hi 1tess,
That’s great advice, i’ll have a look at some other themes and find out what CSS is! -
CSS is cascading style sheet. It is code used to set up how a site appears: background color, borders on pictures or tables, font size or font family or font color, and so on. You probably don’t need it at this point. I only brought it up because some themes add quirky code on tables, and IMO the designers should just leave them alone—no add kooky looking things to them.
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Here is a link from the Support articles:
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Nice one, thanks. Never thoght i’d find this stuff interesting but i’m quite enjoying learning it.
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LOL. I’m guessing you like solving puzzles. That’s how it is for me anyway.
It occurs to me that this might be helpful in searching for wider themes. Itls a chart of maximum image widths, but it has not been updated to include newer themes (see note in sidebar): -
Hi Tess,
Thank you again for your excellent advice, the last link you sent is great. It’s really interesting seeing how the different themes themes change the site. :-]
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