Essential DesignLive at last!
Welcome. This site is mostly a test site for designs. This site uses no tables, except for the MT calendar. It should also work in any browser and on any reasonable screen size (obviously it won't look very good in a five-pixel wide screen).
This design and all the samples in the links column have been done using the exact same template. Only the CSS changes. Although this has been designed for the MT blog, a similar design can be done any blogs, and even for regular web sites.
I'll be doing some fancier CSS in the future, and some different templates, but if you browse around the samples I have up now you'll see how much even simple changes in just the CSS can change the look of a site.
What I've asked on my main blog is for people to come test the pages so I can fine-tune. I've tested in all the browsers I have, and I am using valid XHTML and CSS, but I may need to work around browser bugs, so I would very much like to know if this site causes any! If you've come here directly, I'd also like to ask you to browse around and let me know if you find anything buggy. Thank you.
I do not have either Konquerer or MSIE 6 and get hits from both on my main site, so I'd really appreciate comments from people running those browsers, and since I'm on a PC, from anyone using Mac or UNIX versions of any browser. Thanks!
By Kathy Kinsley at 16:21 EDT| 0 Blogs crosstalking.
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Looks fine in Opera 6.03 and Mozilla 1.1. It is a little off in IE 5.5 SP 2 on my machine. There is no left border - the logo at the top is flush left, and all the other text basically matches it. Also the logo at the top chops off top of the navbar.
Posted by Matt Harris at September 30, 2002 08:53 PMThanks. My IE5.5 looks fine on it, but I can get IE 4 to overrun the navbar, so I'll try to fix it for IE4.
I'm not sure what is causing the border problem, but I do know there's a padding bug in some versions of IE 5, so I'll see if I can find a work-around.
Yep, I AM serious about making it at least readable in all browsers that are now in use.
I'll still probably have to do a special page for palm-tops, though. They have too small a screen to take any two-column design.
You need to increase the line-height, or eliminate it altogether. The text disappears in my browser (IE 6.0 in Win98) and I have to highlight it.
Posted by Andrea Harris at October 2, 2002 10:24 AMI forgot to say my screen resolution is 1024 x 768.
Posted by Andrea Harris at October 2, 2002 10:25 AMThat's just plain weird! I don't have line-height set on anything. I wonder if it's a background-color problem. It shouldn't be, except maybe on the banner text. The rest of the page has the same background all the way to the body.
Posted by Kathy K at October 2, 2002 01:04 PM