Better by far

  • Right, I’ve removed the Java beanie I wear to work and spent some time with my php and css hats on.
    Results at: https://www.cent-com.com/ben.
    Comments much appreciated. I know how easy it is to be blinkered when hacking away on something.
    Many Thanks!

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  • Looking good. Pages validate in XHTML and CSS. Few things to check:
    – Left column needs to come down or you need to raise your tagline copy “babblings of ben gracewood” because they are overlapping.
    – Calendar is ahead for some reason; it’s showing the month of July already…

    Thread Starter bgracewood

    (@bgracewood)

    Yeah I was just mucking about with the header – all fixed now.
    Strange with the calendar! Would that be to do with the server time? It’s on a hosting system who-knows-where, but it’s only 3 hours away from July down here in New Zealand.

    Could be the server… fyi, you can offset it in options to your time. Only other thing I just noticed is the date merging with the title “block”; it looks a bit odd and if you have more than one post for a certain day, those days don’t have the date there. You might want to define the date background color differently.

    Thread Starter bgracewood

    (@bgracewood)

    Yeah I’ve double checked my time offset and it’s all good (see my test post!).
    Good point about the dates. Might look at putting them black-on-white.

    Sorry, but your index page doesn’t validate XHTML 1.0 trans., even though you’ve got the link on the page.

    Ben, when you added the image header you didn’t include a trailing slash for the <img /> tag. Fix that and it will validate again.

    The left column with the moblog photos overlaps the center column for me (about an inch on my display). I’m using IE on Win 2003.

    Thread Starter bgracewood

    (@bgracewood)

    Ah thanks guys… the ‘latest searches’ thing buggered up when there was a long url sent from Google. It caused the left nav-bar to grow because IE doesn’t deal with the ‘overflow’ tag properly ?? Removed for the mean time, but I’ll hack the referer plugin to truncate the search terms later.
    Thanks for pointing out the <img /> tag thing. I’m still getting used to xHTML unclosed tags!
    What do you mean Root? The bottom bar? How do I make that stick to the bottom, rather than live below the content?

    Thread Starter bgracewood

    (@bgracewood)

    Ack! What’s the best way to do an xhtml-compliant < blockquote >?! It complains about ‘not being allowed’, so I presume it’s not a valid tag anymore?
    I tried a < span class=”blockquote” > and added margins etc. to the .blockquote css class, but it looks nasty.

    Thread Starter bgracewood

    (@bgracewood)

    Ok, so I’ve discovered that wordpress wraps the content in < p> tags.
    If I close the < p > tag before the < blockquote > then re-open it after, XHTML is happy. This seems a bit of a hack. Is there are way to remove the default < p > tags from the content? Presume I have to hack the wordpress default functions?

    Thread Starter bgracewood

    (@bgracewood)

    Correction: I’ve realised that a newline before the opening < blockquote > tag will force WP to close the preceeding < p > tag. My Bad.

    You can’t. An absolutely positioned div is like Mount Etna. It will overflow everything in its path and keep heading south. I do not know whether this helps. I do not want to pimp my blog.

    Thread Starter bgracewood

    (@bgracewood)

    Yah thanks – I just dropped the footer anyway. I’ve got a WP credit in the right-hand navbar, so there’s no point having the footer.
    Did some colouration too. I think it looks nicer now.

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