Comments on: Web Tutorial: Creating Your Own Debt Scales

By: leo

leo — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:27:01 +0000

Thank you! I’ve wanted to make something like this for my blog for a while now.I do write about my debt reduction attempt there, and I was looking for mcdst
away to keep people posted on my progress. Other than periodically taking pictures of the paper and highlighter based chart that’s hanging on the back of my front door that is.
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Leo
USA

By: Digger Derrick Trucks

Digger Derrick Trucks — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:38:01 +0000

Thanks for the tut!!!

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:44:04 +0000

Rafael, if you’re not too experienced with editing wordpress, I can only say download some 3 column wordpress themes and compare the index.php with your own. You’ll see what you’re missing. As for the style.css file, you’ll have to reduce the size of the content and and sidebar columns and add in a whole other set of sidebar formats for the right sidebar.

I can’t give away all the secrets cause I spent literally hundreds of hours tweaking my site over almost 3 years to get to this point (different themes along the way). The only way you’ll get experienced it by trying it yourself, but I gave you a start

By: rafael

rafael — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:31:42 +0000

I also using daily32 template how do you modified it to have 3 colum and change the colors can you help me please.

By: Frugal Vet Tech

Frugal Vet Tech — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:49:40 +0000

Thank you! I’ve wanted to make something like this for my blog for a while now.

By: JvW

JvW — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:49:35 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this! I have been trying to figure it out for a while, and I kept hitting dead ends. Last night I played and tweaked your code for about 3 hours and now I have a beautiful Debt-O-Meter! Woohoo!

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:08:07 +0000

@Kate, you don’t need to change the names of anything in your CSS, especially if you’re not fluent in CSS.

@Tyler, thanks for the link. I’ll check it out!

By: Debt Reduction

Debt Reduction — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:56:26 +0000

What a great post. Now a little guy like me can learn how to do stuff like this. You are incredible! Thanks.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:10:20 +0000

I found a great widget for wordpress that does all the dirtywork for you. It was developed by a knitter to show progress on her knitting. however you could definately tune this as I have with your debt.

http://needle-exchange.ca/2007/02/05/wordpress-progress-bars-plugin-version-10/

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:36:46 +0000

Would that work for tracking savings for a savings goal, too? Would you just substitute the word “Savings” for the word “debt” in the code?