Updated blog layout and color scheme

1/23/2007 9:21:00 AM #

er, what colour Steve?

David Heffernan

1/23/2007 9:26:43 AM #

Hi David,
Try pressing Ctrl-F5 to refresh the CSS files in your browser cache.

Steve Trefethen

1/23/2007 9:37:44 AM #

Your stylesheet still seems to be pointed at localhost:

  <link media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost/blog/themes/SteveBlue/base.css"></link>

Mal

1/23/2007 9:39:31 AM #

Doh! Fixed. Thanks!

Steve Trefethen

1/23/2007 11:01:51 AM #

Your color theme is a little bit more better then previous. It is easier to read your blog now.

Igor Skomorokh

1/23/2007 12:18:49 PM #

Few layout problems in IE7, unless the text is supposed to start a few screens down...

C Johnson

1/23/2007 12:39:07 PM #

This color theme is slightly less stressing for my old eyes but still hard.

In IE6 the text content is way down starting where the "monetized" icon is. The situation was same with the previous color theme too.

Mikko Laiho

1/23/2007 3:11:57 PM #

C Johnson,
Thanks for letting me know. Looks like IE6 was the problem as I tested it in IE7 and FireFox 2.0. I've now tested it in IE6, IE7 and FireFox 2.0 and it seems to look ok now.

Steve Trefethen

1/23/2007 3:53:31 PM #

In my IE7 the heading "Tuesday, January 23, 2007" starts after the Disclaimer text. So it starts pages down from the top!!
It does not display this behaviour in FireFox.

Dick Boogaers

1/23/2007 4:22:49 PM #

Hi Dick,
Thanks for letting me know. In IE7 on my machine it looks correct but I'll test it again at work on IE7 on XP and Vista.

Steve Trefethen

1/24/2007 12:05:23 AM #

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Brad P

1/24/2007 12:25:22 AM #

Steve -> Still getting huge 'whitespace' at the top using IE7 under XP SP2.  Using the IE7 developer toolbar, it shows you have your divs listed in leftcolumn, rightcolumn and then centercolumn.  I suspect if you change the order everything should be fixed.

C Johnson

1/24/2007 5:19:56 AM #

C Johnson,
Ok, stupid question, are you sure your IE cache doesn't need refreshing? I tried reproducing the problem on a number of machines today and it all looks fine. Anyone else seeing this problem?

Steve Trefethen

1/24/2007 7:38:27 AM #

I am seeing the massive whitespace issue.  IE7.

Ryan

Ryan McGinty

1/24/2007 8:00:19 AM #

Thanks Ryan,
Well, that's a real bummer because I'm not seeing it at all. The layout seems identical for me in both FF and IE6/7 on WinXP SP2. I'll ask around at work tomorrow. I've just made a few tweaks to the CSS but again the layout here looks correct. FWIW, I've got IE7 v7.0.5730.11

Steve Trefethen

1/24/2007 4:06:13 PM #

Now the disclaimer is moved to the right, everything looks great.

Dick Boogaers

1/24/2007 4:07:32 PM #

But there's now an unused screen-tall dark-blue band to the left. But you probably know this already.

Dick Boogaers

1/24/2007 5:02:24 PM #

Hi Dick,
The left column only contains the Google Adsense IFrame (which pays for my hosting <g>). Thanks for letting me know!

Steve Trefethen

1/24/2007 8:13:03 PM #

I updated my Firefox to 2.0 few seconds ago, but the trouble is the same:
it show the left and right cols, but in the middle it says:
'An error has been encountered while processing the page. We have logged the error condition and are working to correct the problem. We apologize for any inconvenience.'
In IE6, it shows the page waaaaaaaaaaaay down.

Best regards,
Fabricio

Fabricio araujo

1/26/2007 2:01:23 PM #

Steve- What ever you tweaked, it's working great for me now, and no, I cleared my cache on the page a few times (my first reaction when I see weird things esp. css changes)

C Johnson

1/30/2007 3:35:39 PM #

C Johnson,
Thanks for letting me know. I had dropped a height: 100% from one of the CSS files.

Steve Trefethen