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December 04, 2005

Under Reconstruction

I've discovered that my blog looks like crap in IE. Who knew? As I mentioned earlier, I'm moving to a three column format and am going to be changing to blue (probably) or red (more likely). Obviously I haven't made a whole lot of decisions, but switching back between Dreamweaver, Front Page and pure text is making this complicated job even less of a no-brainer.

Please pardon the uglies while I redo.

Posted by mbowen at December 4, 2005 10:16 AM

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Not the reds or blues!?!?!?!?

Posted by: brotherbrown [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 4, 2005 06:39 PM

I'm in CSS hell right now. This brown is supposed to be a dark red with some yellow in it but not orange.

Posted by: Cobb [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 4, 2005 06:52 PM

The top of your head is cut off on Firefox. Do you mean for it to be?

Posted by: Laura(southernxyl) at December 4, 2005 08:05 PM

It depends. I now have nine rotating banners. Some of them do cut off the top of my head, but I did go through a whole lot of editing, so you should be seeing the right stuff.

Posted by: Cobb [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 4, 2005 09:18 PM

Your trackbacks still don't work.

Posted by: Scott Ferguson at December 5, 2005 07:24 AM

I like the brown/slate color a lot, but forget IE, the layout is messed up in both Firefox and Safari. I HATE CSS2 for positioning.

Posted by: memer [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 5, 2005 08:32 AM

I'm looking at it for the first time in 1024x768 on my laptop. It's scrolled off a bit but looks good. I had my Mac buddy Y take a look at it and she said it comes across proper on a Mac. I assume she's using Safari. I do everything in Firefox anyway, and it definitely looks right.

All I need to do is figure out which of the css definitions handles my side links (or if i should make a new entry). The weird thing is that when I change the CSS definition for the whole page, the hover definition works for the side links, but the other definitions are getting superceded by something unknown. So they hover in white, which is what I like, but they should stand out in mustard, which is not happening.

I have gotten some trackbacks, I still haven't given up on that.

Posted by: Cobb [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 5, 2005 10:12 AM

I never realized how important trackbacks were until I set up a blog that can receive and send them (went from Nucleus to WordPress). I think it's fun to get them once in awhile.

Posted by: Scott Ferguson [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 5, 2005 11:33 AM

aaaeeee. Your HEAD is so BIG. A quarter of my screen at 1280x1024. I'm on firefox 1.5, linux version. Sidebars are also a bit larger than they were before.

Posted by: UncleSmrgol [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 5, 2005 07:49 PM

The big head thing has grown on me. Consider Cobb a HiDef site. Sooner or later, everybody will do it like this.

Posted by: Cobb [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 5, 2005 08:27 PM

Everything looks like crap in IE. It has taken Netscape 4's role as the web developer's Anti-Christ.

Looks great on Firefox @ 1600x1200 ;-)

Posted by: Rashid Muhammad at December 6, 2005 08:42 AM

I think it looks good in IE, and I'm running 1400 x 1050 fyi.

Posted by: matt at December 6, 2005 09:19 AM

FYI, on the sidebar, it's hard to read the red text on the brown background. Or maybe it's just me.

Posted by: Laura(southernxyl) at December 6, 2005 10:48 AM

ugh. can't believe i'm the only one to whine about this. yeah, i've ditched my pc and i'm getting along just nicely on my wee 15" iBook (set at 1024 x 768). even at fully maxed browser sizing, i still have to scroll to see the full page. at work with a pc behind a viewsonic 17"er (also @ 1024 x 768), i can stretch the browser out to see the whole page at once, but then the galdanged thing takes up so much of my screen real estate.

Same thing goes if i change the resolution to 1280 x 720. it's just too much, C. you're hoggin my space. i think it'll be a couple decades yet afore the web is normally consumed broadsheet size. none of the top designers are pushing for higher resolutions and wider pages. it's a readability/usability issue. what do your logs say about the majority of your visitor's screens?

there's ahead of the curve and then there's just... "out there." please come back to the pack a little (don't hurt em, Cobbster)and change them percentages. please don't "force" me to go get a (pre-loved) 20" Cinema Display months before I intended.

Posted by: memer [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 6, 2005 11:22 AM