WordPress subtle theme Search is broken - wordpress

I know this isn't probably exactly programming related, but I'm building a website on the famous Subtle theme and realized that even on it's demo the search page is broken so if i could get an answer to this it would mean a lot to me and to other's using that theme.
I have the website on the aadress http://work.askonomm.com/rs, please do use search and if you can figure out why it does what it does i would really appreciate it.

The search class in the CSS currently has float:right and width:170px; set.
This is causing at least part of the problem you're seeing. Removing these items brings the page back in to view and positioned centrally.

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No access to the WordPress appearance panel

I am struggling with one thing I am not so into and any extra help could help.
I just received the WordPress website from the design company. The agreement was to make it editable, change more than just a content by the time. After the end of cooperation, I started to edit some parts of the website but there is no such an option as Appearance in my Wordpress option panel. I asked the developer how can I change basic CSS of some elements on the website but he argued that it is restricted to change any HTML or CSS because it might cause some errors in the code after rewriting it. I get it, but there should be another way to get to the files, how else I could style the new elements? Is there a no way to add Appearance option to the panel? I am not the expert, it just seems too unrealistic for me to say: it is restricted because of this and that and there is no way to add it. Any experience with that, please? Do we have to find Wordpress developer to go through it, or it is just the fact that I can not edit it anymore?
Thank you for any comment!
Best regard,
Miroslava
You can easily edit any wordpress appearance by edit the theme, take a look into wp-content/themes, there should be the files of the theme usually php and css files

Advice on CSS only pinterest type layout?

So I have found a solution for CSS-only Pinterest style layout. I want to use CSS only because jQuery Masonry or whatever just seems less respectable.
I am a complete beginner who has bever coded anything, and I think it'll be easier to just stick to CSS for now and get good in it.
So I want to create a personal website, and I don't mind using JS elsewhere but for the layout I think I want to do it 'from scratch' without cheating with Masonry, and there is a tutorial for this with only a couple problems [cross browser issues and can't order the grids]. http://cssdeck.com/labs/css-only-pinterest-style-columns-layout
This is my question- how do I implement this into a full website?
I know the basic process of writing a website, but I really don't know where to start with making a website using this code. Can someone please give me a step-by-step on how to make a homepage that links to other pages in the website with this?
And how to customise the boxes so that they act as links to other sections of the website?
I want to do it like windows 8 style, where the homepage is made of tiles, you click on a square and it takes you to another section of the website.
HERE is an example of what I am trying to make- http://builtbybuffalo.com/
So in a sense I am asking for a step by step for beginners on how to code the website I just linked to.
Or where to find that info.
Cheers!

CSS Guides for improving skills

Hi for the last month I have started to learn CSS.Fist thing I did is read everything i could find on www.w3school.com , after that I started reading CSS Mastery 2nd edition.I have build a couple of my own websites with succes but I'm still not happy with what I know , I even practiced with the new CSS3 elements.
I've seen alot of cool stuff build using css especialy on http://www.cssplay.co.uk/ but the only problem is the source code is not displayed and I don't know how the bloody things are.A good example is this:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/tilt.html
And these is only one of the things that I've seen on this website and would like o learn how to build them.
So anyone know any other similar sites that ofer a good explanation on the more advanced stuff about css(not beginer stuff like building some drop down menus , rollover or hover efects )?Any advice is much apreciated thank you!
As already mentioned, tools like Firebug/Chrome Inspector are definite must haves.
I gained the most experience from real world problems with various different browsers. You make a site, it doesn't look so good in a particular browser. So you search on the internet. Find a solution and memorize it. I think that CSS in itself is a fairly simple tool, I class 'advanced' CSS as mastering the various techniques required to make sites work cross browser and in browsers like IE6/IE7+.
Also, Never give up with CSS, if you find a problem try and find an answer. Most of the time, there will be a simple solution.
In general, make sure your CSS is as simple as can be. I generally find that most complicated CSS can be replaced with relatively simple code, and find people get carried away and forget simple techniques to achieve similar solutions. One such problem, would be putting a button on the right hand side of a div, like below:
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| Button |
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You may see that some people will float the button right, adding more complexity than necessary. What ever happened to text-align:right? :-)
Finally, make sure you find a couple of blogs you like, for example http://csstricks.com and read them, taking note of new techniques. Try and master a '2 column layout', understand the difference between block/inline-block/inline, margin collapsing, tables, html forms, IE6/7 hasLayout, the list goes on. Most of which you will cover if you try and make a website template from scratch. Maybe start with an existing site and see if you can achieve the same layout.
I'm not sure with CSS how to learn it's pitfalls without encountering them mistakenly.
It looks like the stylesheet for the maze is located at: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/candr/tilt.css. You can use that against the source code to figure it out.
One of my favorite is A List Apart. Great articles, not only about CSS like I linked, but about web design and more.
Also HTML Dog has some nice CSS entries.
Then, you can find great CSS resources on the w3 site.

How to disable menu wrap and enable horizontal scrolling on window resize?

First of all I am not programmer nor web developer.
Someone made a website for me but can not contact him right now.
After 3 days of googling i decided to post this question.
How to enable gorizontal scrolling instead of menu and footer wrap on window resize?
I tried attributes such as: display:inline-block; white-space: nowrap (i think this is related to text only), some JavaScripts.
I might placed these elements in wrong place as it's hard to know that code.
This is index file:
http://slawgd.webpark.pl/index.rtf
and pls find CSS here:
http://slawgd.webpark.pl/style.css
Thank you very much for you help!!
Greg
CAUTION: I am sorry that my answer has no real solution so you can choose to ignore.
The followings are just my comment on your web page after I had analyzed it.
It would be slightly better if you copy the rendered code of HTML as we won't get your data in your SQL Database.
Simply right click the page in browser and find Source Code to get it.
Also, you might find a better answer from the someone who help you to produce it because he is the only one person familiarize your page most.
EDIT: Just a suggestion and not a solution.
After I looked at your page, it is suggested that to find the someone because the page was complicated designed.
It needs lots of effort to modify it without affecting other component.
Moreover, it is quite horrible to work out on cross-broswer compatibility because the code is not well designed.
In mainland China, users of Firefox might not have much, but there are still numbers of users using Maxthon which include WebKit engine.
Variant IE-based browser in mainland China also give a slightly different result of rendering so the code must be optimized.
Therefore, ask the website editor for cleaning the code (such as repeating CSS, malformed HTML structure, etc) and working hard on cross-broswer compatibility is considerable.
More personal comment:
In conclusion, if you find a worker for your website construction with money pay, it seems that it is a huge job to rewrite it and it is not easy to persuade him to help you.
Maybe you can ask someone to help you with a simpler basic structure and insert the original JS background slide effect and drop menu effect to your newer, simpler, and cleaner structure.
There are still a readable amount of unnecessary wrappers inside the page.

PreMade Webdesign and Drupal

I'm terribly new to web development. I'm trying to make a pretty simple site with a friend. My friend has taken the time to design the layout for our site, and we have things looking how we want in a static HTML page.
What I'd like to do now is move over to a Content Management System like Drupal but keep the same design that we have all ready laid out.
Since I'm completely new to this field, I'm looking for some best-practices advice as to how to make this leap.
It's apparent to me that I could probably edit some existing Drupal Theme to make it give me the layout that I want, but is that the path I should go down?
Thanks!
Update: Also, is it more than just replacing my style.css with their style.css?
Update 2: The end goal is for people to be able to log in and create news entries, very similar to a blog that will then appear on the front page. There will be other items on the left- and right- but they don't need to be directly accessed by anyone, really. They'll stay pretty static.
The Zen theme is sort of a meta-theme that's designed to be fully standards compliant and make pretty much every aspect of theming readily customizable, with lots of informative commenting. It's the best place to start if you want to develop your own theme. Even if you find a theme that looks a lot like the one you want to create, it's probably still better to start with zen because it's extremely well laid out and instructive. That being said, I've never built a theme from scratch, but it sure looks like a lot of work.
Update
In general the best approach will likely end up being to use your designer's HTML and CSS as a reference, and to edit the Zen-based templates and CSS files to recreate that appearance. It's a bit magical.
You will end up breaking the styles used in your designer's layout into chunks that are part of various template files. The mostly-static stuff on the side columns will become what Drupal calls "blocks"; you'll likely use the top part of the page to refine the HTML for the header section of the main page template; and you'll use the central part to add any necessary tags to the content section of the main page template.
I tend to make liberal use of the Firebug extension for Firefox, or the developer tools built into Chrome. These tools let you quickly locate a given CSS element that you want to change, and edit it to see how the change will look. At first though it's probably better to just read through the whole CSS file to get a feel for how it works. Again, Zen's CSS is very easy to digest.
Pour your heart and soul into the Drupal Theming Guide for the next few days. Theming, like most things, is best done if followed by a gratuitous amount of time in the documentation.
Start with either Zen or Framework themes. They provide good starting points for working with the CSS to adapt to your design.
This helps too:
http://drupal.org/theme-guide
Whatever you do, don't take Garland theme as how a good drupal theme is done. I went down that path when I first started Drupal...

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