Wednesday, August 31, 2005

 

Constant Template Problems



It's been brought to my attention that the new template looks like crap, too. Old posts have odd characters in them where quotation marks and apostrophes should be... and the font in the blogroll randomly changes sizes. Randomly! On it's own! Plus, the spaces between paragraphs don't show up when you look at the site with IE.

Back to the drawing board, I guess.

Update

I think I have the %$#@$%# thing fixed. It's 4 in the morning, I'm going to bed. Wendy will kill me for staying up this late working on the template. And, she'll tell me I'm a dork-geek-loser. But, I think I might actually have something decent looking now.



UPDATE 2.0... Wednesday Morning, 11:00 AM or so

I think I fixed it. You guys, PLEASE let me know if I fixed it. Does this blog look OK to everyone now?

By the way, Jerry, I know you're right. (You're "right-jerry.") I need my columns to be coded in terms of percents rather than absolute values... but I can't figure out how to do that kind of code in style sheets. I used to be a decent amateur HTML writer about 5 years ago, but this new stuff makes my hair hurt.


UPDATE 3.0... Wednesday afternoon, 3:20 PM

I give up. I GIVE UP! I can't make it look right. I'm sick of trying. I'm honestly at the point where I'm just about ready to quit blogging.

AAAAAGGGHHH!




Comments:
yeah, I was going to say something about it but I didn't want to hurt your feelings :-) I'm just surprised your blog isn't under water- I mean, WHERE are you again? I've forgotten. Are you anywhere near the devastation?

It's such beautiful weather here at the moment, this is one of those times where I actually feel a little guilty for living in southern California- that is, until I hear the next gunshot.
 
nope- something happened with your width that's bumped your middle table containing your posts down below the other tables.

I had that happen with mine a bit when I was first tweaking it, and I found it was in font sizing.

btw, it's only two in the morning here :-) but I can't go to bed, I'd get fired- which might not be so bad after all.
 
oh, and one more thing- you ARE a dork-geek-loser. So stand tall and be proud!!!

I see below this box that I must now type the word "qelcrtn" into the little window if I want to post this. focking spimmers.

*sigh*
 
You better believe I'm gonna kill you for staying up all night working on this stupid blog. All that work and it doesn't look any friggin different.
 
Yeah, the middle column is now under the other columns for me, in both IE and Firefox.

Coding can get ya like that. You keep thinking, "Oh, I'll just try this one more little thing then I'll stop." But it never works and you never stop until it's too late. The bug's got you, Darrell.
 
I wasn't going to post a comment- I just revisited to see if my previous comments had been replied to, but I see that the word I'd need to type for verification is, "qtitwyll", so I can't pass that up.

It sounds like something dirty in gaelic.
 
I'm looking at it right now (10:45AM) in Firefox and it looks SWEEEEET!!!!
 
oops, except you do have to keep the window open wide enough, or things begin to shift. Experiment with absolute values instead of relative positions for the columns. Think in terms of a window being a total of 800 to 1000 points wide (standard resolutions these days) and infinitely long (because people can scroll down but hate scrolling across), and divide up your 3 columns accordingly.
 
nope, the center column is still moving when the viewer makes the window smaller horizontally.

Here's a sample from my code on absolutes:

div id="LeftUpper" style="position:absolute; top:400px; left:25px; width:225px; height:540px; z-index:1">

Another:

div id="Center" style="background: #FFFFCC; border: 1px solid black; padding: 0 10px 0 10px; position:absolute; top:387px; left:270px; width:440px; z-index:3">

(place a "<" before the 1st "div" in each example - I had to remove it to keep blogger from trying to read my examples as HTML)

You probably already had an inkling along these lines.

I had no inkling how to do it. A program generated the code for me (Freeway Pro 3.5 - I used the free demo).
 
I can read your posts, so that's all I need.
Keep working yourself silly, though, because it's pretty funny how stressed out you are.
If Wendy can't call you a dork-geek-loser, than what will she find to call you?
I love the "New Laws" below!
 
deep breaths....

and anyway, you have the time on your hands to work on the template while you're healing.
 
It looks perfectly fine to me. I'm using Firefox.
 
It does look great in Firefox, and even if it didn't, as Jamie said, we can still read your stuff and that's all that matters. Don't you dare give up blogging over a stupid template issue, or I will come over there and flick my finger repeated on your tender back.

OK, not really, but if it takes threats to make sure you don't stop blogging, I can definitely resort to that. :)
 
Hey babe. It looks fine. I think the screen is sized different her so there is a scroll bar on the bottom as well as the side. But the content is in the middle where it should be. See you in a few minutes.
 
I hope you didn't stop blogging. I just landed here from a link from who-knows-where... and I absolutely LOVE your 'voice'.

Based on daverhodester's comment, I'm thinking you may have been affected by the double-whammy of Katrina/Rita. I hope you and yours are safe.

I hope to see you blogging again soon.
 
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