I have just finished up on updating my Javamidlet.com web site. It’s been almost a year since I’ve made any changes to the site’s wordpress theme. The theme I use on Javamidlet was one of my early themes when I was still learning how to make them in Wordpress.

I’ve learned quite a few from the exercise and one of them was — it’s really quite a challenge to have a web site theme that works on majority of the web browsers — Firefox, IE7 and IE6. Working with Firefox (both for Linux and Windows) and MSIE 7 was easy but you’ve got to give credit to IE6 for being such a creation! It’s a good thing that less and less people are using IE6.

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Using round cornered borders or nifty corners on your web pages instead of those pointed, sharp cornered borders are always a welcome addition when creating your web site. I’m not much of a graphics guru or a top-notch web designer so I went on a quest to find out how to create borders using nifty corners.

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While creating the theme/template for Code Stuff, I began to search the Net for some HTML test data that I can use to be able to check the CSS stylesheet for the Code Stuff Wordpress theme. I wanted to make sure that the CSS file will contain the standard or at least the minimum style tags for the Wordpress theme.

A couple of Googling on the Net has brought me to the Lorelle site at wordpress.com. Seeing that this is what I needed, I decided to make a copy of the HTML code provided by the site here to be able to check any changes that I make on the Code Stuff stylesheet.

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