bwventril

A quick follow-up: I just posted a new entry and now the problem has mysteriously solved itself. So I guess you’re right, Root: it must come and go according to the length of the blog. Now if only I could find a way to make sure the problem is *always* there in IE…

Nope, alas neither work. I reduced the bg1 to 10 and then 9px with no change, and removing the sitemeter code has no effect either. I don’t think I’d be so frustrated if it was also screwy in IE… I really don’t like the idea of something only looking bad in Firefox (and Netscape)!

Root: I notice that your footer looks absolutely fine (dare I say stunningly elegant?) in your own Gemini page, no matter which browser I use. Is there anything particular that got around the problem? Maybe the height of the footer? Nothing I’ve tried has worked (absence or presence of borders, that sort of thing). Not that I’m being driven slowly insane by the fact that it only looks bad in the one good browser out there…

Weird… it looks fine in IE, though not in Firefox. Is this a world first?

Root: well, I guess I’ll have to learn to live with a pixel’s worth of imperfection… ah well! If anyone else has had any success at least doing things that would hide/obscure this problem I’m all ears. I’ll see what it looks like without borders. (And thanks for the tips Juanso… I seem to be all set with the previous problem.)

One resulting problem I just noticed: Is there a way to move my footer lower? Right now it’s hovering slightly above the bottom of the body (though not on my comments page). There’s always one thing left to do!

Okay, I’ve definitely got it. And actually realizing *how* you’d designed the menu background was a real revelation: this makes perfect sense now and it’s much more elegant than how I had thought it was done. Moving the menu padding to #nav has also solved a long-standing problem for me, so thanks for that unsolicited tip. All very much appreciated!

Quick follow-up: I think I’ve got it. There are messy issues re: padding now, but I can play around with that. Thanks!

Okay, I admit I am totally at a loss! I’ve put a file called bg1 in my wp-images directory (as a jpg not a gif, though I assume that doesn’t matter so long as I get the file name right). My #rap already has this line:
background: #ffffff url(‘wp-images/bg1.gif’) repeat-y right;
When I get rid of the #ffffff and put the right file name in I get that as the background for the main page. What do I put in for the menu background? I have no idea who or what a “z index” is, having less than a month of .css under my belt!

Thanks a whole bunch! I’ll give it a try.

Hhhhmmm… so even if I just want a simple grey background to my menu which goes all the way down the page, I need to add a grey image to my wp-images directory? How do I then define this as my background image for the menu? Sorry to be so dim here, and thanks for the amazingly fast reply. Gemini has otherwise been a delight to work with.

Hey, thanks for the free publicity!

Freaky! What just happened? Was that to clear my cache?
Anyhoo, problem solved… thanks a whole bunch. When people were trying to convince me to make the leap from Livejournal I’d been told that there were a bunch of online folks willing to help with problems, but didn’t quite expect this degree of general awesomeness. I’m glad I didn’t go for Movable Type! You rule, mysterious stranger.

Nope, that didn’t work… I’ll leave my test post on so you can see what I mean (bwventril.com/weblog).

Aha… I’ll give that a try and will let you know… cheers!