I’m not familiar with this theme, but I’ve troubleshot enough for IE to tell you that with IE 1 + 1 = 2.01 when it comes to pixel widths (maybe not EXACTLY that but IE always needs more room for everything. It’s the broken browser.) Oh, and you didn’t post an image in a post that was too big for the post column, did you?
I did look at the site you’re linked to and it’s fine in both FF and IE at 1024 x 768, unless you’re talking about another site.
My suggestion is to narrow widths in the stuff in the columns, mostly on padding and margins. Do a bit at a time, and keep testing in IE. I’d also validate the theme and make sure there’s nothing going on there, though Andreas’s stuff is usually known to be pretty clean, so I doubt it’s that.
If stuff is looking crappo in the other browsers after you’ve made it look good in IE, there is another way– feed IE a special stylesheet via conditional comments and make those width adjustments there only for IE using the * html hack and make sure you hide the IE adjustments from IE Mac, which is the only IE that almost works.
Xhtml/css would be SO easy if most of the world didn’t use the broken browser . . .
Can’t help you there, if we can’t see the theme in action. I’ve been using Wp-Andreas09 for a while now and only using IE, without any problems.
Once I had a similar problem, this had to do with a image that was to large (pasted in a side-bar).
Sorry about not posting a link earlier. Here’s what my site look like with Andreas09. None of the images appear to be too wide for the sidebars:
Tech Savvy Ed
I even deleted the modified image I had placed in the theme, and I still get the desheveled layout. Firefox still shows the site perfectly, but it’s IE that’s giving me the problem. I would usually just leave it as IE’s problem, but I know most of the people reading my site are using IE.
So after checking across platforms (smacking myself for not doing it sooner) it appears the wp-andreas09 css IS clean for both Firefox and IE as long as you’re on a Windows machine. The css problems came from IE for Mac, in which the columns were just completely akimble. Odd for sure, but still a problem I’d like to remedy, unless there are few enough IE users for Mac that it won’t be a problem.
If anyone has any suggestions as to how to get my banner in the center instead of hanging out there please let me know 🙂 I’m toying around with the idea of just increasing the margin on the lefthand side, but I would love for the banner to remain in the center regardless of screen resolution as I know setting the margin will affect different user’s view of the site 🙁
Here’s some links for you:
Scroll down on this one, Bruno’s got a whole section on IEMac fixes on this page:
http://www.brunildo.org/test/
Code Bitch’s Mac Edition:
http://www.macedition.com/cb/ie5macbugs/
You’ll need this to feed stuff to IEMac so that other browsers don’t see it:
http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/
And more:
http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/
And the group to beat all groups if you can’t get the answer any other way:
http://www.css-discuss.org
Hi,
I really like Andreas 3 column theme and have started using it in my work blog.
Ive encountered a lot of problems and trying to fix them one by one.
However, Im not able to get my header image to show. It did earlier, But I tried uploading an image and the page went crazy. So I had to delete everything and upload it again. Now the header doesnt show.
Can anyone help?
Also one common problem. When I make a change from WordPress Presentation ‘Theme Editor’ and go back to the IE or Mozilla browser to refresh the content, it doesn’t show the changes. I have to go back to theme, switch to another theme and them switch back to Andreas theme to see the change. This is strange.. But any solution?
