Sidebar suddenly disappeared

  • Last night I wrote two posts to my blog. This morning I noticed that my sidebar has disappeared. Also, some of the graphic elements of my theme have disappeared as well. I haven’t made any modifications to either the sidebar or the theme in over a week. A few weeks ago I added Google Adsense and Flickr Zeigiest to my sidebar and they have been without problems. Why would elements now be disappearing from my blog? Have I been hacked? Here is a link to my blog:

    https://maryburr.com/studioblog/

    Thank you.

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  • The sidebar did not diappear. It’s just way down, below the content area.
    This phenomenon usually is caused by way too large (=wide) pictures in the content area or some elements in the sidebar.
    You cannot use picture that are wider than your content area. Try to resize the last pictures you have posted.

    Thread Starter mburr1

    (@mburr1)

    Thanks. I’ve reduced the photo in size by half and still the sidebar is at the bottom. However, when I remove the entire post, the sidebar moves back up to the top.

    Then check that post for:
    very long links
    very long code line
    or anything that is wider than the content area.

    Check your CSS. The wheels fall off of CSS way too easily, and CSS is not the panacea the CSS gods want everyone to believe.

    If your posts are too wide, then CSS dumps the sidebar to the bottom.

    Never had this problem with “archaic” TABLES, but we’re all supposed to bow down to CSS now.

    I had to make all my photos fit a certain size, or the thing falls apart.

    Oh – and if you

    _X_ used the editor to center the image,

    _X_ and then hit the carriage return a few times,

    _X_ when you go into HTML mode in the editor

    _X_ you will see instead of p or carriage returns, the idiots code in a bunch of div center statements

    Delete all the excess div center statements and voilah the thing will work properly.

    “Check your CSS. The wheels fall off of CSS way too easily, and CSS is not the panacea the CSS gods want everyone to believe.”

    This is totally wrong info. CSS is a tool that works way better than tables for most apps and simply performs the way it’s asked to. If the content is wider than what is defined then you will have problems – especially in IE.

    As for the extraneous code – turn off the wysiwyg editor – it’s crap for code.

    Every PHP app I have used that uses CSS & and some kind of template – the guy who wrote the template has usually defined way too many variables and classes, with duplication and extra classes that aren’t even being used because parent classes are over-riding them.

    KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid.

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