This site is ATROCIOUS

I like it. Nice clean layout. You might want to use parent/child pages for structured information if the site grows

Thanks, that’s a pretty good idea, I can imagine that being useful in future.

Question for anyone:

In order to get the “About this site” sidebar link in big, bold letters like I want it to be, I had to add <h2 /h2> when I typed “About this site” into the title box in the visual editor when I made the page.

I know that is awkward and lame but I don’t know how else to modify that text! If I didn’t do that, the “About this site” would be in the small font like all the other page titles. Can I access the code directly to specify the font style for just this page title? Where does that code live?

The code should be in sidebar.php in your theme folder. You can give that link a class of its own and define that class in style.css so that it looks however you want it to look.

I love the clean layout, the entire look and feel of the site, however, I at first thought it was a single column blog because the sidebar is pushed to the bottom right. Not sure if it appears that way because of the apportionment of space for the body and sidebar, or because I am viewing it in IE.

Enjoyed the content as well, I’ll be back as a regular reader. Also, thanks for the article on Flock of Dodos!

Really well done.. just the sidebar issue on my end.

It’s fine for me on FF / OS X. Windows IE issue? That big screenshot may be a few pixels too wide.

Oh damn, I am hoping it is that screenshot that pushed the sidebar to the bottom because I’ve already fussed with this IE sidebar issue and thought I had it taken care of. Thanks mm232 for the heads up on this. I’m going to reduce the image right now and see if that fixes it.

These comments much appreciated!

that will fix your problem.

You cant push an elephant through the eye of a needle.

Indeed it was the screenshot image that was pushing the sidebar to the bottom.

To anyone who stumbles across this thread and has had a problem with the sidebar jumping to the bottom of the page in IE:

In other browsers, if an image is uploaded to a site that is too large–say it is 600 px wide, but the WordPress column that it is sitting in is set at 500 px–then the browser just shrinks the image appropriately and it looks clean. But IE screws it up and crowds whatever else you might have in that horizontal space, and the sidebar falls to the bottom.

Unfortunately, and I don’t quite understand this, IE can also drop the sidebar if your total page width is not set wide enough. This problem seems to be independent of any images you might have in your posts. I had originally set my total page width to 812 px, which was enough space to hold my main column and sidebar in all other browsers. But it wasn’t until I added a few extra px to this setting (up to 827 px) that IE was able to fit both the main column and the sidebar in properly. Others may be able to explain this better and there are plenty of other threads discussing this for anyone who is having trouble.

that topic has been discussed in more threads than any other singular issue on these forums — driven into the ground in fact.

And just imagine… if IE handled images in WordPress a little better (or whatever the problem is), imagine how lonely these forums might be!

arguably ie6 handles them better than can be expected.

Im not sure I really want a browser that allows sloppy work to look ok. (generally speaking). That sounds like dumbing down things to me (but thats another topic all together)

It’s just seen on these forums a lot because of the quantity of themes that use fixed width divs.

Couple that with users that don’t understand or know about the concept behind my new elephant metaphor and also don’t know how to troubleshoot, and there ya go ??

But yes, the forums would be much nicer, I do agree ??