Blog box div displays incorrectly only in IE, header bar is short, besides that, what do you think?

Hey all,

I was wondering if someone could give us a hand. The blog on our site
at http://www.weallsellout.com/blog/ has a problem with displaying the
blog updates box at the top right of the screen. Somehow it is
parallel and below where it should be. The script is an rss feed
parser that just outputs formatted text for blog entries. It works
fine everywhere except IE.

Also, the header bar of the site shows up skinnier than normal, but
only on the blog page. Neither of us can figure out why. This second
point isn't as important, because it doesn't look like an outright
screwup. If someone could give us a hand with either of these problems
we would be very grateful.

Please comment on any other issues pertaining to
http://www.weallsellout.com: clarity of message, approach, originality,
questions that arise, or ideas on how to spread the word.

Thanks,

Kyle Bell and Nate Hurwitz
Syracuse, NY
http://www.weallsellout.com/about/

KMB wrote:

Please comment on any other issues pertaining to
http://www.weallsellout.com

Gee, do you think that map graphic on the home page could be any larger?
790KB isn't chewing up enough bandwidth.

If you made it an 8-bit png with 16 colors, it would be less than 50KB.

--
Berg

KMB wrote:

Hey all,

I was wondering if someone could give us a hand. The blog on our site
at http://www.weallsellout.com/blog/ has a problem with displaying the
blog updates box at the top right of the screen. Somehow it is
parallel and below where it should be. The script is an rss feed
parser that just outputs formatted text for blog entries. It works
fine everywhere except IE.

Also, the header bar of the site shows up skinnier than normal, but
only on the blog page. Neither of us can figure out why. This second
point isn't as important, because it doesn't look like an outright
screwup. If someone could give us a hand with either of these problems
we would be very grateful.

Please comment on any other issues pertaining to
http://www.weallsellout.com: clarity of message, approach, originality,
questions that arise, or ideas on how to spread the word.

Thanks,

Kyle Bell and Nate Hurwitz
Syracuse, NY
http://www.weallsellout.com/about/

You might want to validate your code

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos... com%2Fblog%2F

Also, line 24 has </script> with no matching <script> above it. Delete
that, assign a doctype and then work on the rest of the errors.

HTH

--
Wayne
http://www.glenmeadows.us
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion.
—Steven Weinberg

Hey,

Yeah, just realized that big file size the other day. It will be
changed very soon, together with the other kinks. Thanks for the
reminder, I almost forgot we didn't optimize it yet.

Kyle


Bergamot wrote:

KMB wrote:

Please comment on any other issues pertaining to
http://www.weallsellout.com

Gee, do you think that map graphic on the home page could be any larger?
790KB isn't chewing up enough bandwidth.

If you made it an 8-bit png with 16 colors, it would be less than 50KB.

--
Berg

You are awesome. I don't know why I never thought about that, since I
have had that problem before, but I didn't even think to do that. It's
all good now, save a few small tweaks. If you have any ideas about
fixing that header height problem that's all I have left to do, save a
few supporting images and the like. Thank you very much for pointing
that out.

Kyle


wayne wrote:

KMB wrote:
Hey all,

I was wondering if someone could give us a hand. The blog on our site
at http://www.weallsellout.com/blog/ has a problem with displaying the
blog updates box at the top right of the screen. Somehow it is
parallel and below where it should be. The script is an rss feed
parser that just outputs formatted text for blog entries. It works
fine everywhere except IE.

Also, the header bar of the site shows up skinnier than normal, but
only on the blog page. Neither of us can figure out why. This second
point isn't as important, because it doesn't look like an outright
screwup. If someone could give us a hand with either of these problems
we would be very grateful.

Please comment on any other issues pertaining to
http://www.weallsellout.com: clarity of message, approach, originality,
questions that arise, or ideas on how to spread the word.

Thanks,

Kyle Bell and Nate Hurwitz
Syracuse, NY
http://www.weallsellout.com/about/

You might want to validate your code
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos... com%2Fblog%2F

Also, line 24 has </script> with no matching <script> above it. Delete
that, assign a doctype and then work on the rest of the errors.

HTH

--
Wayne
http://www.glenmeadows.us
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion.
-Steven Weinberg

Hey,

Blogger was down, so I haven't had a chance to screw with the template
code yet. I'm just happy that I got the error that counts. Like I
said though, I still have to figure out why the header bar in the blog
area is skinny.

Kyle

Hey,

Blogger was down, so I haven't had a chance to screw with the template
code yet. I'm just happy that I got the error that counts. Like I
said though, I still have to figure out why the header bar in the blog
area is skinny.

Kyle

KMB wrote:

You are awesome. I don't know why I never thought about that, since I
have had that problem before, but I didn't even think to do that. It's
all good now, save a few small tweaks. If you have any ideas about
fixing that header height problem that's all I have left to do, save a
few supporting images and the like. Thank you very much for pointing
that out.

Kyle

I'm not sure what you want to do with the header. You should start with
doing a search and replace of & and replace with &amp;

That will remove many of your errors. Next, search and replace <br>
with <br /> and <hr> with <hr />

The doctype you have chosen requires closing tags.

Also, what are you attempting to accomplish with location.href="http...?
I don't believe the location is needed.

There are many more errors which you can easily solve by making the
changes requested by the validator, saving, uploading to your server,
and then re-validating. The process will go rather quickly once you
start and you will learn a lot from the experience.

Regards,

--
Wayne
http://www.glenmeadows.us
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion.
—Steven Weinberg

"KMB" <KyleMBell (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hey all,

I was wondering if someone could give us a hand. The blog on our site
at http://www.weallsellout.com/blog/ has a problem with displaying the
blog updates box at the top right of the screen. Somehow it is
parallel and below where it should be. The script is an rss feed
parser that just outputs formatted text for blog entries. It works
fine everywhere except IE.

Also, the header bar of the site shows up skinnier than normal, but
only on the blog page. Neither of us can figure out why. This second
point isn't as important, because it doesn't look like an outright
screwup. If someone could give us a hand with either of these problems
we would be very grateful.

Please comment on any other issues pertaining to
http://www.weallsellout.com: clarity of message, approach, originality,
questions that arise, or ideas on how to spread the word.

Thanks,

I just get a grey screen. ie6 xin xp sp2

--
Cheers

Paul
le singe est dans l'arbre
http://www.paulwatt.info

Hey,

I just opened it up in IE and got the same error. I have little to no
idea what is wrong. The only thing I can think of is that it has
something to do with the CSS main code (in the first section of
http://www.wesallsellout.com/blog.css that I removed and seemed to make
the blog run smoother. I'm going to post this problem on the blogger
forum and see if people there have any suggestions. Any thoughts?

Kyle

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Hey all,

I was wondering if someone could give us a hand. The blog on our site
at http://www.weallsellout.com/blog/ has a problem with displaying the
blog updates box at the top right of the screen. Somehow it is
parallel and below where it should be. The script is an rss feed
parser that just outputs formatted text for blog entries. It works
fine everywhere except IE.

Also, the header bar of the site shows up skinnier than normal, but
only on the blog page. Neither of us can figure out why. This second
point isn't as important, because it doesn't look like an outright
screwup. If someone could give us a hand with either of these problems
we would be very grateful.

Please comment on any other issues pertaining to
http://www.weallsellout.com: clarity of message, approach, originality,
questions that arise, or ideas on how to spread the word.

Thanks,


I just get a grey screen. ie6 xin xp sp2

--
Cheers

Paul
le singe est dans l'arbre
http://www.paulwatt.info