My website looks horrible on different browsers… what can I do?

Resolved brittanywigand
(@brittanywigand)

14 years, 8 months ago

There’s something different wrong with it on every browser… whether it’s my sidebars are way off the page or my html colors aren’t showing up or my posts are way off to the side.

What can I do?

I’m using the mts-journey theme and my site is BrittanyWigand.com.

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Thread Starter brittanywigand
(@brittanywigand)

14 years, 8 months ago

I forgot to mention that I use Opera as my main browser, and my site looks fine on it.

@mercime
(@mercime)

14 years, 8 months ago

Yeah, it looks rotten in FF, IE, Opera 9.1, and Safari. All have horizontal scrollbars except in IE. That’s probably a very old theme.

What can I do?

Change theme to one that is compatiable across different browsers. Check out http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

Mark Ratledge
(@songdogtech)

14 years, 8 months ago

And find a new theme that validates or claims to be valid XHTML.

Your current theme shows 244 errors at http://snurl.com/opr1y [validator_w3_org] and that’s one of the reasons why it looks bad accross all browsers.

Thread Starter brittanywigand
(@brittanywigand)

14 years, 8 months ago

Can you recommend a more recent theme?

Preferably one that is pretty customizable… since as you can see I use my own headings, backgrounds and banners.

@mercime
(@mercime)

14 years, 8 months ago

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/blass2
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/clean-home
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/wplight-theme

Thread Starter brittanywigand
(@brittanywigand)

14 years, 8 months ago

mercime, how do you move the sidebar to the left? i hate right side bars lol and all those themes have it.

@mercime
(@mercime)

14 years, 8 months ago

search WordPress extend themes and you shall find the following and more:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/barthelme
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/happy-cyclope
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/silver-dreams

Thread Starter brittanywigand
(@brittanywigand)

14 years, 8 months ago

I’m using the Silver Dreams theme mercime… how do you edit the date text?

lynmarie0123
(@lynmarie0123)

14 years, 8 months ago

hi brittany!

Im a newbie to WP so im really sorry i cant answer your question, BUT I LOVE LOVE your site!! how did you change your theme? was that a pain? (I want to change my theme but im scared to death) And how did you get that cool green background on there?

aardanyul
(@aardanyul)

14 years, 8 months ago

One on my sites had that problem, upgrading the theme should do the trick. To edit the date text just go to the time and date setting in the wordpress dashboard

Thread Starter brittanywigand
(@brittanywigand)

14 years, 8 months ago

I mean the appearance of the date.

henkholland
(@henkholland)

14 years, 8 months ago

Buy Stylizer or get Firefox with the addon Firebug (al free). With Firebug yu can inspect your site and after clicking on an item it shows the css part of the style.css that inflences that part. Really helps.

Thread Starter brittanywigand
(@brittanywigand)

14 years, 8 months ago

lynmarie0123, thanks! i made that background and put it as my body background url. I’m using the Silver Dreams theme. 🙂

henkholland
(@henkholland)

14 years, 8 months ago

(I want to change my theme but im scared to death)

Don’t experiment on your live site. Set up a test site and try things out there. When good: than backup your main site and do the same tricks again for your main site.