Ongoing Learning Projects

[Safety Guy]

The site are all based with free templates so I have to work with what is offered.

This is the Website Tonight that GoDaddy offers and is my "first" try at a site...

Link (http://www.10houroshatrainingmissouri.com)

This is the second site using WP -
I'm having issues with formats when using pics
I can't get the calendar off the site
The navigation font color seems to be locked in too...

Link (http://www.nationalsafetyclasses.com)

[vangogh]

The WP site is off to a pretty good start. The calendar is probably located in sidebar.php. You should be able to remove the code. If it's not in there then you must have added a calendar widget, which you can remove by going to Appearances > Widgets.

What's the issue with the pictures. How are you adding them to the site and what won't they do.

The navigation font isn't locked. Nothing is locked. You have to find the right css. My guess is it's because those navigation items are links. You probably need to style something like:

#nav a {color: your-color-choice}

[Safety Guy]

Heh...
alright I'll see if I can work on that stuff.
The photos are off of google images...

[KristineS]

Using photos off Google images is not a good idea. Many of those photos are copyrighted by the sites that originally used them. You'd be much better off either taking your own photos or purchasing them from a site like Istockphoto.com which allows you to buy the rights to use a photo when you purchase it. Pulling random photos off Google images can get you in trouble.

[vangogh]

Like Kristine said you can't automatically use those images, since many will be copyrighted. Some might be allowed under fair use and others might be released under a license that does allow you to reuse them. Just know that you could be asking for trouble.

Use the Flickr Creative Commons search (http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/) instead. You generally have to give attribution to the creator of the image, but at least you're allowed to use the images.

[Safety Guy]

Thank you for that link. I'll try and get those images replaced today.

There was a default calendar widget that I deleted off the WP site, but now the side bar looks really tacky.

[vangogh]

Oh yeah. It looks kind of empty doesn't it. You can add one or more of the text widgets if you want. You can add whatever text you want and you can wrap it with html tags if necessary.

Maybe some contact info or a short bio or both would work well. Your category list will grow as you add more categories and write posts in those categories too.