IE 7 confusing me!

Remember this website?
www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)

You guys were helping me with it before.

Bearing in mind my still newbieness, can anyone help with the following? I'd
really appreciate it. I know I still need to tidy up my css a bit and
shorten it but I don't want to that until its all right.

Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.

www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)

1) My main problem is, why is the secondary menu (in the grey bar - contact
brian barr, home page etc etc) not showing in IE 7?

2) Which divs / css do i need to amend to make the main text not bump up
against the edge of the grey sidebar on the right hand side? It works fine
in IE but not in firefox or netscape, which means I assume i've coded it
incorrectly.

3) how do i show my background images in the right sidebar? i've read about
some bug with the no-repeat but if I take these out the pics look completely
wrong.

4) how come the telephone and email dark grey box bumps right up against the
grey bar above it in NN and MF but not in IE? (why is IE so annoying in its
standards implementation?

I am desparately trying to do this right and fix the old table-based code on
the old design but I'm getting a bit stuck

Looking forward to your help again.

Thanks
R


"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Remember this website?
www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)

You guys were helping me with it before.

Bearing in mind my still newbieness, can anyone help with the following?
I'd really appreciate it. I know I still need to tidy up my css a bit and
shorten it but I don't want to that until its all right.

"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.

www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)

1) My main problem is,

Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which are
totally unreadble.

rf wrote:

"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:Bc6dnQMIZ-7TbULanZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d (AT) bt (DOT) com...
Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.

www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)


1) My main problem is,

Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which are
totally unreadble.

I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain name
and manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's
moving to a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.

I haven't found the time to address her specific questions, however. :-(

(Seems, at a quick glance, though, to have somewhat over-long styling,
not just because of the verbose comments.)

--
John
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"John Hosking" <John (AT) DELETE (DOT) Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote

rf wrote:
"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:Bc6dnQMIZ-7TbULanZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d (AT) bt (DOT) com...
Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.

www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)


1) My main problem is,

Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which
are totally unreadble.

I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain name and
manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's moving to
a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.

I haven't found the time to address her specific questions, however. :-(

(Seems, at a quick glance, though, to have somewhat over-long styling,

not just because of the verbose comments.)


--
John
Read about the UIP: http://improve-usenet.org/

Thank you.

As I said in my original post I have to cut it down, but I'm not going to do
that until its all working. hope you can help with my questions

R

"rf" <rf (AT) invalid (DOT) com> wrote

"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:Bc6dnQMIZ-7TbULanZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d (AT) bt (DOT) com...
Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.

www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)


1) My main problem is,

Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which
are totally unreadble.

Where?

Ruth wrote:

www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)

Please make it easy for people to help you.
http://www.brianbarr.co.uk/testsite/relative/

1) My main problem is, why is the secondary menu (in the grey bar - contact
brian barr, home page etc etc) not showing in IE 7?

I think you have a worse problem - setting the content width to a fixed
60em. Maybe it doesn't matter much to those of you who use a small
default font size, but for those of us with large text, it's way too
wide. There's excessive horizontal scrolling.

Regarding your other issues, I'm having a hard time weeding through your
CSS. Too many stylesheets, too many over-specified rules. You should
simplify. For example:

#navcontainer
{
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
right: 0px;
float: right;
display: inline;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
background-color: #615D5C;
}

It's a div element, so margin, padding, right all default to 0 anyway.
Your combination of float, display, position and width don't make any
sense to me. What are you really trying to accomplish here?

If you're letting Dreamweaver generate all that CSS, you should stop
that practice now.

BTW, you should set a foreground color to go with that background.

--
Berg

In article <RvudnXNha83BQX3anZ2dnUVZ8uWdnZ2d (AT) bt (DOT) com>,
"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

[big snip]

As I said in my original post I have to cut it down, but I'm not going to do
that until its all working. hope you can help with my questions

As a matter of practicality, it is actually far easier to start with
the bare minimum, get that working, and gradually build your way back
up to where you want to be.

Trust me on this one - I have the T-shirt!

"John Hosking" <John (AT) DELETE (DOT) Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote

rf wrote:
"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:Bc6dnQMIZ-7TbULanZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d (AT) bt (DOT) com...
Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.

www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)


1) My main problem is,

Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which
are totally unreadble.

I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain name and
manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's moving to
a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.

Ah, is that what that meant? I had no idea that I had to manually change the
URL after I had clicked on it. Why not just direct me to
www.brianbarr.co.uk/testsite/relative ?

In article <Wh8Ej.385$n8.159 (AT) news-server (DOT) bigpond.net.au>,
"rf" <rf (AT) invalid (DOT) com> wrote:

"John Hosking"
I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain name and
manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's moving to
a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.

Ah, is that what that meant? I had no idea that I had to manually change the
URL after I had clicked on it. Why not just direct me to
www.brianbarr.co.uk/testsite/relative ?

This last question is a pretty good one.

--
dorayme