A friend who teaches at another school asked me to set him up with an online journal for him and his students (and hopefully, students in history classes on the mainland). I'm running WordPress with an RSS feedreader plugin for the right sidebar in a three-column style. I've been wrestling with the aesthetics for a couple of weeks now, and I've slowly--mostly by trial and error--gotten it to look how I want it to look, but one feed is giving me problems, so I thought I'd ask if a solution leaps immediately to the capable minds of my friends on HT!
Okay, here's what the first three items in the current feed from the Star-Bulletin look like:
Question 1:
I have the feedreader set to display the first four items in the feed. You can see what it's doing. For the first item, I get the words "Cover Photo" followed by a thumbnail of the front-page photo. I'd rather not display the "Cover Photo" words, but even if I figure out how to turn that off so I just get the photo, the rest of the items will show just that obnoxious horizontal line without the headlines. I'd love to not show those horizontal lines at all, but of course then I won't get the nice photo for the first item! Does this look like a fixable problem, or will I just have to grit my teeth and have to look at "Cover Photo" and that ridiculous horizontal line (which, with my current template settings, extend PAST THE RIGHT-MOST BORDER when the page is looked-at with Firefox! GRRR! It looks okay with the other browsers I've looked at, though, so I guess I can live with THAT).
Question 2:
Does this look like a sensible feed to you, or is the Star-Bulletin being obnoxious?
Okay, here's what the first three items in the current feed from the Star-Bulletin look like:
<item>
<link>http://starbulletin.com/index.html</link>
<title>Cover photo</title>
-<description>
<img src="http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/24/rrpromo.jpg" alt="Cover photo">
</description>
</item>
-<item>
-<link>http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/24/news/index1.html</link>
<title>UH grants hit record of $353M</title>
<description>________________________</description>
</item>
-<item>
-<link>http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/24/news/index2.html</link>
<title>In the footsteps of Father Damien</title>
<description>________________________</description>
</item>
<link>http://starbulletin.com/index.html</link>
<title>Cover photo</title>
-<description>
<img src="http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/24/rrpromo.jpg" alt="Cover photo">
</description>
</item>
-<item>
-<link>http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/24/news/index1.html</link>
<title>UH grants hit record of $353M</title>
<description>________________________</description>
</item>
-<item>
-<link>http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/24/news/index2.html</link>
<title>In the footsteps of Father Damien</title>
<description>________________________</description>
</item>
I have the feedreader set to display the first four items in the feed. You can see what it's doing. For the first item, I get the words "Cover Photo" followed by a thumbnail of the front-page photo. I'd rather not display the "Cover Photo" words, but even if I figure out how to turn that off so I just get the photo, the rest of the items will show just that obnoxious horizontal line without the headlines. I'd love to not show those horizontal lines at all, but of course then I won't get the nice photo for the first item! Does this look like a fixable problem, or will I just have to grit my teeth and have to look at "Cover Photo" and that ridiculous horizontal line (which, with my current template settings, extend PAST THE RIGHT-MOST BORDER when the page is looked-at with Firefox! GRRR! It looks okay with the other browsers I've looked at, though, so I guess I can live with THAT).
Question 2:
Does this look like a sensible feed to you, or is the Star-Bulletin being obnoxious?
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