Widget + Favicon Help

[SamSam]

Hi Sayontan,

Like most people here, I want to thank you immensely for your easy template! However, I am still a novice at this and I am still having some issues that I would greatly appreciate your help with!!

widgets -- I have the twitter widget that I already added but the text is not aligned with the bird - how can I fix that? (http://burrsandberries.com)

I also want to add a 'facebook page' widget with the facebook icon aligned to the left of it, and a 'subscribe' to RSS feed widget - I tried doing that in the 'widgets' sidebar-1 column under 'appearance' in the site editor. But the RSS box is giving me this message (RSS Error: The data could not be converted to UTF-8) when I try to put in the RSS feed URL (http://burrsandberries.com/?feed=rss2)

I'd like the three links to be organized like the ones on this site (http://www.twigandthistle.com/blog/) if you know what I mean? Just basically in a neat list.

Also, I have a favicon.ico file uploaded onto the media library on my blog - how could I make it an icon near the website address field??

Also, is there a way I could add a background image to the blog and tile it??

That's all I have for now. I really hope you can help! And sorry if any of the questions are silly, I tried the best I could and left asking you to the last resort!! Thanks!!

[Colin]

Favicon move it to the root directory and it will appear. (Where your index.php is)

The other questions will have to wait for someone more knowledgeable to answer.

[sayontan]

You can create a "Text widget" with the links to the three things you want - Twitter, RSS and Facebook. It is quite simple. You only need to put this in the text widget:

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<a href="url-for-following-you-on-twitter><img src='url-for-twitter-icon' alt=''>Follow me on twitter</a><br/>
<a href="url-for-following-you-on-Facebook><img src='url-for-Facebook-icon' alt=''>Follow me on Facebook</a><br/>
<a href="url-for-feed><img src='url-for-RSS-icon' alt=''>Subscribe</a><br/>


[SamSam]

Hi Sayontan, Thanks for the quick reply! I tried the code you sent me in a text widget but it messed up the sidebar layout and only the facebook one sort of worked. Could you maybe check it out? http://burrsandberries.com

[sayontan]

You put the text I provided into the Custom Styles option - you should first delete that.
Second, you have not closed the quotation mark on the "a href" elements in your text widget, hence the messed up display..

[SamSam]

Sorry I was trying something before and must have forgotten it there. I deleted the text from the custom styles section. And this is exactly what I have in the text box in the widgets.

<a href="http://twitter.com/burrsandberries"><img src="http://burrsandberries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/twitter-icon1.jpg" alt='twitter-icon'>Follow me on twitter</a><br/>

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Burrs-Berries/224532359404"><img src="http://burrsandberries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-icon.jpg" alt='facebook-icon'>Follow me on Facebook</a><br/>

<a href="http://burrsandberries.com/?feed=rss2"><img src="http://burrsandberries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/feed-icon.jpg'' alt='rss-icon'>Subscribe to Burrs & Berries</a><br/>

The layout is still messed up, what am I doing wrong?

[sayontan]

Please do a thorough check at your end before reporting something as an issue. Your "src" field in the "img" tag for the RSS feed is not closed by a double-quote, but instead it has two consecutive single quotes.

[SamSam]

Sorry about that. Thanks so much for your help!! I really appreciate it.