Style problem

  • Mind you this is all being done on a newish iBook G4…
    Anyway, I just installed the beta this afternoon, my first experience with WP (this being at my new site. Before installing, though, I looked at a lot of potential styles I could use and tweak to my preferences. I finally decided on Human Condition from Alex’s Styles Competition.
    I tried it on my test site and it worked fine. When I tried it on my new site, though, it doesn’t work properly when there are so few posts that the “content” div is shorter than the “menu” div. In Mozilla, the “credit” footer is right under the bottom post, and in IE and Safari, the footer is in the proper place, but the background image for “content” doesn’t repeat-y. Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong with this?
    My CSS is located here.

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  • Thread Starter firstbigweekend

    (@firstbigweekend)

    I realize this could just be some issue between the old version of WP and the beta, but I figured I’d ask you all just to see if anyone has any other ideas.

    It’s probably just an issue with the style when there aren’t many posts. Try posting some things so your content area is longer than the sidebar and see how it looks.

    The problem here is that a really cool WP css style is not necessarily of the technical specification that some people want. It seems obvious that we would want the bg color of the content to be constant down to the end of the menu regardless of the height of either div. Unfortunately that is a deceptively simple requirement and is not easy to deliver. Legacy browser compatibility requires a substantial reconstruct if that is what you are after; and a serious amount of delving into css layout. Good luck anyway.

    …or we can rethink whether our table-less sites still need to look table-based

    Yes, indeed. We have this perfectly great canvas to work with, yet place boxes on it and cram our content into the boxes. ?? Weblogs have been fairly instrumental in helping break the pattern of only allowing site menus on the left. Perhaps it’s time for other OOTB thinking….
    <rb>

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