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| 2005-10-21 |
| Just a plea for some advice. I'm trying to tweak my blog template. It looks great in Netsacpe and it looks like I had a stroke in IE. The link takes you to a post describing what I'm trying to do. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #15 Moving to Hosting Matters. Hope to have most everything sorted out by Monday. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-10-21 16:44 |
| #14 Ok. This link. |
| Posted by: Andrew Hagen 2005-10-21 12:57 |
| #13 You have a column formatting problem. It might be related to your top and bottom full size banners. See the link. |
| Posted by: Andrew Hagen 2005-10-21 12:56 |
| #12 Hosting Matters can carry a decent-sized blog for about $6-11 / month. They have a script for automatically setting up Word Press and a web interface for all the things you'd want to do, like uploading any pre-designed templates etc. Email accounts are part of the deal, if you want to use them, also wholly managed via point and click. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-10-21 11:12 |
| #11 I just tossed the javascript date and time thingy. More trouble than it's worth. Didn't solve the IE problem. All the CSS is supposed to work with IE 6+. Added a neat little toy at the bottom of the left column, How Much Is Your Blog Worth? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-10-21 11:04 |
| #10 Chuck, I removed both (w/o the ".") "<.div style="clear:both;"><./div>" and "<.div style="clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;"><./div>" but of course you can experiment and remove less if you want to keep the padding. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-10-21 10:29 |
| #9 Safari on the Mac also doesn't like it. Sorry. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-10-21 10:27 |
| #8 Ed, so remove both instances of div.style=clear and find the places where < is followed by a period and remove the period Right? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-10-21 10:24 |
| #7 Chuck, I assume you want to the post text to show up at the top (In Firefox, the text starts after the LH bar ends). In that case you can get of the two instances of style="clear:both;". Whoops, the html did not show up. Here is the search text. Replace "<." w/ "<" in the search. <.div style="clear:both;"><./div> and <.div style="clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;"><./div> |
| Posted by: ed 2005-10-21 10:16 |
| #6 Chuck, I assume you want to the post text to show up at the top (In Firefox, the text starts after the LH bar ends). In that case you can get of the two instances of style="clear:both;". and |
| Posted by: ed 2005-10-21 10:11 |
| #5 I host my own site on "Geocities" and use Blogger to author it. As I understand it, Word Press doesn't work on Geoshitties. Maybe I'm wrong. I am also not a CSS maven. Just plug it in, look at the result, and tweak as necessary. I'm surprised Firefox pukes on it. I thought it was based on the Mosaic / Netscape engine. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-10-21 10:07 |
| #4 Forgot to add that one attraction about Word Press is the huge collection of templates that you can either apply without changes or use as a base for mods. 1 / 2 / 3 columns, color schemes, etc. Really quite a fun platform to work with. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-10-21 09:40 |
| #3 Same thing in Maxthon (which uses IE engine anyway), and in Firefox. Still, a new blog to add to my favorites, great! Thanx. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-10-21 09:37 |
| #2 chuck, did you write your site yourself? Have you considered moving onto the open source platform WordPress? CSS and PHP ... and you can tweak it at the source code level if you want to. Works well on a wide range of browsers and lots of plugins are available and more being written. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-10-21 09:33 |
| #1 Oh, my, Chuck. I'm using IE and it does look bad. It choked on the column thingy and squished the text of the post to the bottom of the page. Unfortunately, I have no actual advice, but am cheering for you! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-10-21 09:29 |