Stupid Internet Explorer

  • So, I basically designed my entire wordpress solution while using Firefox as my partner in crime to check it over. Well, I finally (I know, industry standard) check in IE, and what a mess!

    https://www.andreanott.com/wordpress

    For the life of me I cannot figure out how to solve the following problems:

    1. In the sidebar, that color of the background displays overtime of about 5% of the left sidebar. I don’t know how to get rid of this (you can see it yourself I’m sure)

    2. The plugin FlashyTitles does not seem to work in IE whatsoever. I can’t figure it out cuz i even did a clean install.

    3. There is a random error when the homepage is loaded in IE. I can’t figure out what it’s getting at. Line 8 in all of the template files looks fine to me?

    For anyone who helps me, I will be greatful like you wouldn’t believe. For your convenience, I have made a zip file of all of the necessary files so you can look at my (yes I know probably horrid) job of coding and maybe determine my issues?

    https://www.andreanott.com/stupidie.zip

    Thanks, and please help!~ :S

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  • Thread Starter juggernott

    (@juggernott)

    sorry i didn’t mean to write ‘overtime’ there, it should have just read ‘over’. Wow, was I tired when I posted that. But, seriously, any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Most of my users will likely come in using Internet Explorer, so I’d like the site to look right if possible.

    Pllllleeeeeeaaaaaaassssseeee?!?!?! *making the saddest puppy dog eyes I can*

    what version IE are you using ?

    i just took a quick look with IE 6 and then with firefox, to me it almost looks better with IE, it looks like you have a number of browser compatibility issues, with lots of things rendering differently in each browser, which i’m sure wasn’t your intention. I’ve downloaded your zip file and I’ll try to take a look later.

    For now, a few quick tips —
    1) I like to use TopStyle for editing stylesheets, this program also has the ability to check for cross browser and standards issues. I’ve tried a number of different css editors, and have been stuck on that one as my favorite for a couple of years. Any decent css editor will help avoid most common issues.

    2)Use a good HTML editor, I like MS Frontpage (just for the editor), however there are issues with using the FP extensions on wordpress sites, so I don’t use that much when working with wordpress. I’m switching back and forth between a few that I have at the moment, including Adobe GoLive and the built in editor in the Zend PHP Studio system.

    3)Use a good php IDE, I’ve been using Zend Studio for the past few years and haven’t found a reason to change.

    The point is, just by using quality tools for each type of task, you will be able to avoid many problems which pop up when trying to hand code something. I still make lots of changes on the fly with a unix system porgram like vi or pico, or using the built in wordpress file editors (these tools are all great for on the fly maintainence, however, when doing anything major – like getting a site set up, or overhauling themes, templates, etc. with anyting like wordpress, xoops, etc, using better tools will eliminate most simple errors and typos, etc.

    If you’re not into buying software like that then go have a look at sourceforge, there are many high quality tools for all of these tasks available there. I have downloaded and at least tried most of them, some I still use, some not, but you can find great PHP, CSS and HTML tools available there for free.

    Thread Starter juggernott

    (@juggernott)

    Oh, great, thanks!

    I will try those tools. I have eliminated the script error, which was a result of the Titles plugin actually. Once I deactivated FlashyTitles, the error was gone. I guess Flashy Titles wasn’t meant to be!

    I, for the life of me, cannot figure out that left margin on the sidebar though. It’s giving me a headache!!!

    Thanks again.

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