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1. lane
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Looking good. Pages validate in XHTML and CSS. Few things to check:
   - Left column needs to come down or you need to raise your tagline copy "babblings of ben gracewood" because they are overlapping.
   - Calendar is ahead for some reason; it's showing the month of July already...

2. bgracewood
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Yeah I was just mucking about with the header - all fixed now.
   Strange with the calendar! Would that be to do with the server time? It's on a hosting system who-knows-where, but it's only 3 hours away from July down here in New Zealand.

3. lane
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Could be the server... fyi, you can offset it in options to your time. Only other thing I just noticed is the date merging with the title "block"; it looks a bit odd and if you have more than one post for a certain day, those days don't have the date there. You might want to define the date background color differently.

4. bgracewood
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Yeah I've double checked my time offset and it's all good (see my test post!).
   Good point about the dates. Might look at putting them black-on-white.

5. cmcgee
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Sorry, but your index page doesn't validate XHTML 1.0 trans., even though you've got the link on the page.

6. lane
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Ben, when you added the image header you didn't include a trailing slash for the <img /> tag. Fix that and it will validate again.

7. noahpb
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   The left column with the moblog photos overlaps the center column for me (about an inch on my display). I'm using IE on Win 2003.

8. bgracewood
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Ah thanks guys... the 'latest searches' thing buggered up when there was a long url sent from Google. It caused the left nav-bar to grow because IE doesn't deal with the 'overflow' tag properly :( Removed for the mean time, but I'll hack the referer plugin to truncate the search terms later.
   Thanks for pointing out the <img /> tag thing. I'm still getting used to xHTML unclosed tags!
   What do you mean Root? The bottom bar? How do I make that stick to the bottom, rather than live below the content?

9. bgracewood
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Ack! What's the best way to do an xhtml-compliant < blockquote >?! It complains about 'not being allowed', so I presume it's not a valid tag anymore?
   I tried a < span class="blockquote" > and added margins etc. to the .blockquote css class, but it looks nasty.

10. bgracewood
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    Ok, so I've discovered that wordpress wraps the content in < p> tags.
    If I close the < p > tag before the < blockquote > then re-open it after, XHTML is happy. This seems a bit of a hack. Is there are way to remove the default < p > tags from the content? Presume I have to hack the wordpress default functions?

11. bgracewood
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    Correction: I've realised that a newline before the opening < blockquote > tag will force WP to close the preceeding < p > tag. My Bad.

12. Root
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    You can't. An absolutely positioned div is like Mount Etna. It will overflow everything in its path and keep heading south. I do not know whether this helps. I do not want to pimp my blog.

13. bgracewood
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    Yah thanks - I just dropped the footer anyway. I've got a WP credit in the right-hand navbar, so there's no point having the footer.
    Did some colouration too. I think it looks nicer now.

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