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Thanks, you were so helpful!!

The site is allirense . com / handmadewonderful (no spaces).

Sorry to make a seemingly useless bump, but does anyone, anyone have any idea as to why this is happening? Please? With sugar on top?

INTP here…

I like the color scheme. The site as a whole looks a bit messy. I’d ditch the flower pattern in the sidebar. It’s very distracting and it’s not seamless. I think I’d move all the content over to the right, put a wrapper div around the whole thing, and then put in a solid color background in the green or pink. I’d also get rid of the green horizontal lines that are all over the place. It’s really distracting and my eyes keep dancing all over the place. Maybe just have one sidebar and make the entries wider with a larger font.

I hope some of that is helpful!

That’s lovely! I wish there was a little more synchrony, such has having the “categories” “flickr” and “archives” headers all match. On the other hand it is scrapbook “gone crazy”!

It’s fixed. I just played with my sidebar CSS until I got it working again.

Hi, and thanks! I appreciate your suggestion. There is a specific reason why that particular negative padding declaration is in there. My sidebar does not have a negative padding declaration or the background image thereof (for displaying the red background):

Sidebar CSS:

#sidebar {
	float: right;
	padding: 5px;
	width: 190px;
	font-size: 9pt;
	color: #fff;
}
#sidebar a {
	color: #999;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#sidebar a:visited {
	color: #999;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#sidebar a:hover {
	color: #6699ff;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
#sidebar img {
	border: 0;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

Background image CSS:

#main {
	position: relative;
	width: 800px;
	height: 100%;
	left: 25px;
	background-color: #fff;
	background-image: url('https://allirense.com/sideback.gif');	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	background-position: 100%;
}

To see the rest of the css, go here: https://allirense.com/testblog/wp-content/themes/hacdc/style.css

I still don’t know how to fix this. Could someone please help? Thanks.

Okay, I stopped getting the “about” section to show up and instead received this error:

Warning: main(/home/allirens/public_html/testblog/wp-content/themes/hacdc/searchform.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/allirens/public_html/testblog/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 6

I’m going to delete the php code for now, but I really need the widgets working.

I’m not sure what was wrong–that could have been it. I just redid the page and it’s fine now.

Thanks for the tip. It looks great in Firefox and Safari! However, it looks horrid in IE (7): there’s a 4px overlap between the skyline image and the navbar, plus the navbar is sticking out a centimeter or so on the right hand side of the page. How can I make this IE compatible?

I’m envious of how display the content at the bottom of the page. I tried to do something like that myself and only ran into all sorts of problems. I like your color scheme, it is very clean and pretty.

I have to admit I don’t really like the header. I would rather see the logo not overlapping, and then the gradient with the links below it, maybe with more color–using that red, perhaps, and having it look more like buttons than text links on a gradient.

Okay, it is valid. But now, not only is the alignment problem still an issue, but the white background does not extend all the way to the bottom of the page.

Firstly, I was planning on validating the page after I got everything working properly.

Secondly, most of the errors are from the flickr badge. They have nothing to do with my problem. I did fix one error I thought could be a culprit, but the problem still exists.

I finally got it working somehow. I’m not sure what I did that was different from how it was originally with all the stuff I tried in-between.