Comment on WordPress Hacks by SEO Dave.

WordPress Hacks The issue is the HTML within the Aweber form is inheriting the styling of the Talian 5 themes style.css file, specifically some styling related to the HTML tag span.

It’s an oversight on my part when I edited the menu headers to be better SEO’d from an H3 header to span and didn’t give them a class (we didn’t have text widgets at the time).

It’s fixed in version 6 (given them a CSS class) that will be released soon (before the end of this month I hope). In the meantime the simplest solution would be to change the Aweber form to one that doesn’t use span within it’s javascript code, the current Aweber form has 3 span tags each of which is using the header styling, hence the three red blocks. The spans in the form aren’t doing anything important, just fonts, if you can edit the forms at HTML level should be easy to fix (quick look at the HTNL and looks like you don’t need the font styling of those span tags).

I tested the form in my development site with version 6 pasted into a text widget (did you add the form by editing a template file, if so you can use a text widget to paste code now) and the styling issue isn’t a problem, but the form is on the wide side as well for the sidebar, 200px is around the max width and that form looks around 230px. So you’d need to use another form if you don’t want it hanging over the side of the sidebar.

Going to be working on more sidebar options soon (just added Chitika ads today to version 6) which should give more sidebar layouts that would fit bigger forms and ads.

David